Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — PERTINENT Personal [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personal

J. P. Morgan is constantly adding ta his large London gallery of paintings. Hugh McLaughlin, Brooklyn’s veteran politician, has collected 1,024,000 stamps President Woodrow Wilson has written the introduction to the “Handbook of Princeton.” President Roosevelt Is credited with having shaken hands with 1,200 peoplt in twenty minutes. Joseph Jefferson says.he was hissed oil fho stage once. He was 4 years old and tried to sing “The Star-Spangled Bait ner.” Frank Eddy, first native born Congressman from Minnesota, would like to be the first native Governor of thal State. J. T. Rider, a blind piano tuner ol Humphreyville, N. Y., can take a plans or organ apart and replace every piecs correctly. Dr. Edward Everett Hule, chaplain ol the United States Senate, thinks members of Congress are public spirited fni work hard. James W. Eldridge of Hartford own* the favorite saddle of JcffeTson Davis Tho latter used it during the greater pari of the Civil War. Henry C. Moore of Corinth, Miss., ha* shot more than 1,000 elephants, and hai the finest privnte collection of zoological specimens in tlie world. President Eliot of Hnrvard, for tin first time in thirty-five years, delivered a lecture in the regular college cours* the other dny in the absence of a pro fessor of philosophy. Bishop Daniel Goodsell, the new Metli odist head for New England, bears i close resemblance to the late Phillipi Brooks. He liaa officially visited manj foreign countries and is well known ai tn author. The Rev. Dr. John Wright of St Paul, Minn., has recently given the Union Got leg# library a copy of the thin! edltioi of the Saur Bible, published in German town in 1776. It woa the first Blblt printed in America in a European lan gunge. Nearly all the copies of tills ed) tlon were destroyed t by the British troop* When they occupied Germantown in 1770