Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

Bourke Cockran was once a porter for A. T. Stewart. * According to the Jewish Chronicle Paderewski is a Jew. Russ&l Sage’s sister lives at Oneida, N. Y. She is 93 years* old. Daniel Lamont’s private fortune is now said to reach $5,000,000. Mrs. Howyd Gould owns a fan for which her husband paid SIOO,OOO. Governor Roosevelt has taken to the Gladetonian .exercise of felling trees. ,*T. P. O’Connor says Mrs. Langtry looks quite as yonng as she did ten years ago. R. D. Blackmore, ’ author of “Lorna Boone,” is a prosperous market gardener. Min Yong Whoa, the new minister to Washington from Corea, speaks English fluently. William L. Elkins the street rail* way syndicate began life as an errand boy in a grocery. Leopold Carreras of Rhfiadelphia does not read jokes, as he dislocates his jaw