Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — MEN OF NOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN OF NOTE.

Hon. A. G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania. Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is the only surviving member of the trio of famous war Governors, of whom Wm. Dennison, of Ohio, aud Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana, were the other two. He is now sixty-nine years old, having been bom in his present home, Beliefonte, Pennsylvania, in 1817. It is a satisfactory comment on any man’s abilities and strength of character to know that he can live a long Hfe in the village where he was born and be honored to the last with the best offices within the gift of his fellow citizens. Governor Curtin has grave faults, and always has had, bnt the fact that he stood by the Union in its

hour of need, and was so efficient in the discharge of all the duties of Governor of one of the great Northern States, answers for them all. He was educated for and practiced law. He was made Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Governor«of the State. After the war he was sent as Minister to Russia, and was elected as a member of the convention that made the present Constitution of the State. In 1880 he was nominated by the Democrats of the Twentieth Congressional District of Pennsylvania for Representative. He was elected again in 1882 and 1884. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Forty-eighth Congress, and as Speaker Carlisle failed to appoint him to that place in the present Congress, he declined to serve as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, which was tendered him. When it was decided to investigate the strikes by a Congressional committee, he was placed at the head of said committee, and is now serving in that capacity.

The greatest fortress in the world from a strategical point of view is the famous strohghold of. Gibraltar. It occupies a rocky peninsula jutting out jnto the sea, about three miles long and three-quarters us a roile wide. ,- r - ——• —==—. at . The largest dynamo in the world is being set up in Cleveland. Five hundred horsepower will be required to drive it, and its current will furnish incandescent lights of about twenty thousand candle-power. Coming home from “the >club”—policemen returning from a riot *' rghrj