Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

Lady Beresford proceeded in the most business-like manner and didn’t pay a penny on her new husband until after the goods had been delivered. ■ i,Robert Lcbaudy has subscribed 1,000 francs toward the prizes for the Bor-deau-l’aris and back horseless race, which will take place on June 11 and following days. Rev. DnWilliam Gregg, professor in iKnox College, Toronto, since 1872, and a well-knbwtr leader in the Presbyterian Church, has, resigned the professorship on account of old age. Major Pond says his offer of $3,000 a night for Mark Twain, which has been standing for five years, still holds good. Twain has more calls to lecture than any other American citizen. Robert Halstead, a son of Murat Halstead, lias been appointed managing editor of the Fourth Estate, Mr. Birmingham's lively “newspaper for newspaper men,” in place of F. 11. Lancaster, resigned. The last miller of Dee is dead, but the Chester town council has voted to buy and preserve the mills, in order to control the flow of the stream. The original grant of the mills was made by King Edward VI. Albert George Sandeman has been elected to the responsible position of governor of the Bank of England. He had previously been a director of the bank for many years, and also a director in manyfinancial institutions and insurance companies. Pope Leo XIII.’s hands are nearly useless and cause him much suffering. When he writes he must hold his right wrist with his left hand, and what he writes is almost illegible. Thia is not due to age, but to an attack of ague twenty-five years ago, when he was bishop of Perugia,