Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SIRES AND SONS. jfcfc \ —— Aviator Curtiss when flying wears a little gray cloth cap and bites his mustache Major General Daniel E. Sickles is the oldest living civil war leader. He is eighty-seven years old. but still stalwart and active. Edgar Blood), a traveling salesman, of Kansas City. Mo.f is deaf and dumb. He sells diamonds and carries a price list printed on a card which he hands •to each merchant he visits. The trustees of the University of Chicago have granted to Professor Oscar Bolza of the mathematical department permission to spend the r#st of his life In Freiburg. Germany. He will draw the same salary he received when active. ’ llol>ert AlphoSso Taft, son of the president, who tins just been graduated from Yale university, is going to star: work In the Harvard Law school in <)i tober. lie is the first son of a '•ic-iileiit <>f the United States to acquire a Yale diploma. Henry Dexter, president of the American News company In New York, ninety-seven years of age, still sits at his desk. He goes down to his every day in an automobile and takes a very active interest in his business as well as in philanthropic affairs. Fernando Jones, who celebrated his ninetieth birthday recently, has. lived in Chicago longer than any other person. He settled there In 1835 ahd has lived there ever since. When he first saw the village it was nothing unusual to observe Indians upon' the streets. Base Hits. Rumors are persistent that Cy Young is about done for as a pitcher. But he has a fortune. For a man who doesn’t swing violently Schulte of Chicago hits a ball as clean and hard as anybody in major league circles. Outfielder Clyde Millan, who had a miserable year in 1900. is playing grand ball for Washington this season. They do come back now and then. 'Chase is the veteran in point of service on the New York team, and yet he is under thirty, and this is only his sixth season with the Highlanders, Detroit critics concede that Russell Ford of the New York Americans is a great pitcher, but doubt is expressed there whether he lasts the year out the way he exerts his arm in throwing the spitter. Household Hints. A strip of eiuer.v cloth tacked to a small square board will be found useful for quickly sharpening the carving knife.