Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Col. T. E. Dawson, of Grand Forks, N. D., owns the first military order issued by General Grant. It is a simple document, is No. 1, dated July 2, 1861, appointing Mr. Dawson quartermaster and commissary of the Twenty-first Illinois. It is signed “Col. U. S. Grant, Springfield, Ill.” Mr. Dawson has refused $3.00(F for it. City Librarian John Taylor, o! Bristol, Tenn., who died a few days ago, learned the trade of blacksmith when a youth and elevated himself by his own talents and energy. He was an authority on historical and antiquarian subjects. \ Mr. -Paderewski’s extraordinary popularity in England is shown by the fact that as soon as his agent had made arrangements in twentytwo cities for a tour the tickets in some of these cities were sold a month or more before the date of the concert. To an interviewer Mr. Paderewski said that he sometimes, when preparing for a concert tour, played fifteen hours a day to keep his fingers supple and his memory active. It is fatiguing, he admits, but he has an antidote, which i| billiards, “If I walk or ride, or merely rest, I go on thinking all the time, and my nerves get, no real rest. But when I play Billiards I forget everthing, and the result is mental rest and physical rest combined.” When Booth was playing Richard in Chicago in 1879 a m< ntally unbalanced spectator named Gray shot at the actor twice from the * gallery. One of the bullets Mr. Booth secured and had it set in a gold cartridge upon which 'he hivl engraved the words: “From Mark Gray to Edwin Booth, April 23, 1879.'* This grim reminder he always preserved. Tea of excellent flavor, and of » flavor eoual to some of the higher grades in China is cultivated by Mrs. Increase Sumner, of Starke, Fla. Shs raises three crops a year.