Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Rabbi Solomon Schindler, of Bos] ton, it is reported, is to retire from his profession to enter upon a business career. He is spoken of as one of the most Christianlikp men in Boston. The Hon. H. S. Bundy, who has been nominated by the Republicans of the Tenth Ohio Congressional district to succeed the late Congressman Enocks, is the father-in-law of ex-Governor Foraker Professor Charles Carroll Everett, of the Harvard Divinity school, will represent the univerity at the cere* monies attending the opening of Manchester new college, Oxford. It takes place next October. Dr. Edgar, superintendent of the the famous Fairfield shipping yards at Glasgow, visited the Cramps’shipyard at Philadelphia, the other day, and expressed great admiration at many things he saw there. Ex-Secretary Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana, who is now eightyfour yebrs of age, says that in early life he was an excessive chewer of tobacco, but fearing ill effects upon his nervous system he abandoned the practice over fifty years ago, and has never taken a chew since. Frederick H. Fowler, clerk of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, has discovered, in indexing its reports, one made by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1849 as chairman of the committee on a plowing match at the Berkshire county’s annual fair. “Tim” Tiernay, who began service with the Burlington & Missouri railroad as a tracklayer in 1856, has been in the employ of the company eVer since. He is now over eighty years old, and is a flagman at Denver. He says he might have been president of the road by this time if he had had a little better education to begin with. i Edward M. Greene, of San Francisco, has designed a novelty for the midwinter fair to be held in that city, which he hopes will rival the Eiffel tower and the Ferris wheel—lt is a colossal statue of Justice, 150 feet high, supporting an immense pair of scales, the extremities of which are cars holding fifty people each. The beam is a truss 300 feet long, oscillating like a walking-beam, thus lifting the cars to a height of 350 feet.