Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — SIRES AND SONS. [ARTICLE]

SIRES AND SONS.

j Mr. S. GouHchambaroff is the chief I petroleum geologist of the Russian | government ■ It is said in Paris that the Prince de Sagan is a walking monument of debt j He enjoys the distinction of owing more money than any private person in France. ’ Senator Depew is seventy-seven I years old. He will be succeeded by I a Democrat as the ‘outcome. of the r election. Senator Depew says he is l glad to retire. Dr. Alfonso Costa, the minister of i Justice in the provisional republican \ government, is considered the most . brilliant republican orator and the best I lawyer in Portugal. “Our Inkiest i>eer'' is a title beI stowed Ujxju the Marquis of Butte, At the age of twenty-eight be is one of the richest men in the United Kingdom. his annual income being estimated at more than $1,000,000. Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago, son of Abraham Lincoln and president of the Puilman Car company, has teased a house in Washington. Since his term as secretary of war expired in 1885 Mr. Lincoln has made only occasional visits to the national capital. ’ Ernest Rutherford, professor •of physics in the University of Manchester. is the highest living authority on radio-activity. He is credited with the discovery that all matter in its ultimate constituents is the same, and many of the problems of arrangement and combination have been solved by him. Professor Rutherford was born in New Zealand in IS7I.