Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1902 — BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES

PERSONALITIES. Ex-Governor Hogg wears a 22 Inch collar. f » Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Is said to Inherit much of his father’s wit and conversational powers. • Marshall Field is to build and present a fine library building to his native town, Conway, Mass. The king of Sweden travels as Count de Hava. It was under this title that he Btaid at Cannes last season. General Leonard Wood is partial to cigarettes, rarely smoking cigars, a fact which commends him to the Cubans in bis province. General von Rock und Polack will succeed General Count von Schliffen as chief of the general staff of the German army after the autumn maneuvers. Herr Rlggenbach, who introduced the cogwheel railroads that have enabled tourists in Switzerland to do their mountain climbing without effort, died recently. J. B. Frye, one of the oldest residents of Virginia, died recently and was buried, according to his wish, in a walnut coffin made with his own hands from an old tree on his farm. Guthrie, O. T., has a 15-year-old lawyer. His name is Frank H. Burford and he was recently admitted to practice, though he has not yet been graduated from the Guthrie High school. A Washington friend of Admiral Dewey says the great sailor is a splendid wit and story teller. He can also spin a yarn of his own experience which would rival the wildest fiction. John Ruskln has not had his photograph taken for 30 years, abd John Hare has allowed himself to be caught by the camera once only. This was at the express desire of Queen Victoria. General Julio Rengifo, for many years secretary and charge d'affaires of the Colombian legation in Washington, who is on leave in his native country, has been appointed minister of the treasury. William Wither Bramston Beach is regarded as a comparatively young man to occupy the position of “father of the house of commons,” to which he succeeded on the death of the late Sir John Mowbray, for he is only 72. Albert C. Hopkins, who, during the Messiah craze at Rosebud and Pine Ridge agencies in 1890, attained notoriety by appearing among the excited Sioux and announcing himself their Messiah, has been adjudged insane. Governor Powers of Maine, who owns timber lands in the North Woods, was aßkeA by a Bangor Commercial man the other day if he thought the pulp business was destroying the Maine forests and promptly answered: “No. That’s my answer to you—No! Let them cut all they want.”