Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — Brevities [ARTICLE]

Brevities

THE HALL OF FAME. 1 Mme. Tetrazzini, who once sang for S2O a month, now sings for $2,500 an evening. Richard B. Nixon has served forty continuously as financial clerk of the United States senate. Dr. George I. Adams has returned to Washington from Peru, where since 1905 he has been chief geologist to the government of Peru. * Andrew L. Powers walked to Bath from Phippsburg, Me., recently, took dinner, bought a big wheelbarrow and wheeled It home. He said that he was in a hurry for it. Mr. Powers is ninetythree years old. Williams college claims the oldest living graduate of any college in ths United States. He is William Rankin of the class of 1831. Mr. Rankin Is now ninety-eight years old and resides with his son. Professor W. M. Rankin of Princeton university. Vladimir Poulsen, the Danish inventor, who Is only thirty-eight years old, Is the son of a Judge In the high criminal court of Copenhagen. He has succeeded in making wireless telephonic connection between Lyngby and Weisensee, a distance of 250 miles. Representative Frank Orren* Lowden of Illinois is one of the brainiest men in the lower house. He was admitted to the bar when only twenty-six years old and for some time was a professor at the Northwestern university and president of the Law club of Chicago. Mme. Schumann Helnk, thw famous contralto, announces that two of her sons, Henry and Hans, are at present studying singing In Chicago and both are going to have wonderful bass voices. She says, “They will both be singing in opera before I have finished.” Captain Jay J. Morrow, who has been promoted to major of the engineer corps, U. S. A., is a Pennsylvanian by birth and Is thirty-seven years old. He graduated from West Point in, 1891 and was with the army In Cuba during the Spanish war and was later In the Philippines. Dr. E. W. Naylor, lecturer on music anij organist at Emmanuel college, Cambridge, England, has been awarded the Ricordl $2,500 prize for an opera in English by a British bom composer. The prize opera Is called “The Angelas." it deals with the search for the elixir of life and the tragedy which follows the finding of it.