Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Paderewski says the piano as an instrument of study is the hardest. Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, is living in a small cottage near the beach at Narragansett Pier and discharges the duties of chief of police of Narragansett Pier. —Cuvier’s brainweighedalmostjiixty ounces, that of Napoleon fiftyeight. Frank Hewitt, of Laramie, Wyo., is described as the champion sheepshearer of the world. He has a record of shearing 100 sheep in three hours and twenty-seven minutes, or at the rate of one sheep every minute and a traction. ‘ Dr. Westbrook Farrer, of Biddleford, Me., is said to be a physician in active practice, though ninetyeight years old, and, still more remarkable, to be in the habit of visiting his patients regularly on a bicycle. Heattributes his exceptional “vYgor at this advanced age tu the use of Wintergreen tea, of which he is said to be an ardent advocate. The recent death of John Quincy Adams, an old Boston Latin School boy, recalls to mind the tong and illustrious roll of graduates from this famous institution: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Sumner, Everett, Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Ed ward Everett Hale and Philips Brooks were among the number. Under the income tax provision cl the Gorman tariff W. W. Astor will contribute about $178,000 each year to Uncle Sam’s cash box. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard oil man, will have to part with about $152,000 annually. The Jay Gould estate will pay $90,000; three of the Vanderbilts SBO,OOO each; Henry M. Flager $75,000; John Jacob Astor $50,000; Wm. C. Whitney $20,000; Levi,P. Morton SIO,OOO, and so on. In New York city alone there are over fifty women who win enrich Uncle Sam from $2,000 to $20,000 a year under this system of taxation,