Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1900 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

Zola, at 21, often Went hungry. Attorney General Griggs is a crack , shot. Ex-Uijited States Senator Sawyer is 83 years of age. George Gould has purchased one of the finest packs of fox hounds in England. President McKinley's favorite game is chess. He is quite an expert player. In the paper mill owned by Gov. Crane at Dalton, Mass., workmen who become too old to labor are retired on their regular salary as long as they live. The King* of Sweden never touches a gun. The King of Belgium hits shot only once in his life, and the Sultan of Turkey cannot bear to see a'gun. The late William Dickey, who Was a member of the Maine Legislature for fifty-nine years, made the longest record for service of that kind in the State. Joseph L. Mayers, State Senator of Oltio from Coshocton, walked to the capital from his home, a distance of 100 miles, to show his independence of railroads. Representative Littlefield of Maine, who favors the prohibition laws of the Sf/ite, was embarrassed at a euchre party in Washington,by winning as a prize a handsome beer stein. United States Senator Nelson was born in Norway. Maine's Legislature ordered a bust of ex-Speaker Reed. Miss Floretta Vining of Hull. Mass., j owns nine newspapers. “Former Senator Ingalls' mother is still I living an active life in Boston at the ad- 1 vnneed age of 99 years. President Eliot of Harvard is something of a pedestrian. He frequently walks from Cambridge into Boston. Of the twenty-five men who have tilled the Governor's chair in Indiana Gov. Mount is th*, cnly one living.