The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-06-30

Mr. and Mira Grover Cleveland have
written To Mr.. and MrA Renken. Of
sheldon. Ia: Enclosed find draft for
$50. which please place in bank to the
credit Of your newborn democrat.
Ruth Cleveland Renken, and may abe
live to ripe old age"
Nicholas Theodoria mites, q seventy
year-old Greek with long curls Of
golden hair falling over his shoulders
and his full beard twisted into curls,
who has posed for years before the
most famous artists of Europe as .
model for Jupiter, is on his way TO the
fair.
There lives = man in Webster coun.
ty, West Virginia. by the name OF
Whorton, aged eighty-nine years. whose
hair and beard are turning from white
to black He is said TO be cutting
new set of teeth. His appearance il
said to indicate a man of 40 years in.
stead of one nearly 90.
Charles n. Richards was appointed.
through the influence of Charles Sum
ner, '.mender Of quill pens for the
United States senate. and. though chief
of the stationery room. is still under
that title on the pay roll. Only one
senator, Mr.. Morrill,, uses quill pens,
and these are bought ready made.
The late DIR. Andrew Peabody. &C
cording to DIR. Edward Everett Hale,
was looking over some accumulated pa
pers one day. when he discovered that
he was $40, 900 richer than he was tho
year before. Thereupon he wrote to the
assessors of Cambridge asking those
officials to impose tax on his property
accordingly.
of King Mithridates of Pontus his
torians say that he spoke twenty-five
languages and knew by name each one
of his $4,000 soldiers. Cyrus. the Per-
sian king, and Julius Cesar were also
familiar with the name of every soldier
in their vast armies. Napoleon and the
duke of Wellington had the same fac
ulty, though in smaller degree.
"A young woman stopping in San
Diego. Cal. recently went from the
east to California, fell in love. married.
settled down. broke up housekeeping.
lost her husband and resumed her
maiden name all within the last month.
Her husband during the same time left
his situation. met and married the girl.
changed his name twice and disap-
peared to parts unknown.
-Ex-Congressman John A. Bingham.
of Ohio, who took leading part in the
impeachment proceedings against An
drew Johnson, resides at Cadiz, o.. and
at the age of seventy-seven is in full
possession of his mental and physical
faculties He has been out of public
life since his return from Japan in 1855
to which country he was United States
minister under Mr.. Arthur.
Mrs. Gladstone is regular attend
ant of the house of commons and sure
to be behind the grill when her hus-
band speaks as she frankly admits to
her intimate friends ito see William
home For william" has habit Of
returning to Downing street insult
ficently wrapped up unless Mrs Glad
stone is on hand to insist on what the
great statesman terms undue fussi-
ness"
Mrs. Cleveland drove up to the
White house the other day as Baron
Fava, the retiring dean of the diplo-
matte corps. was leaving. and after ex-
changing greetings with him extended
her hand in bidding him good after
noon. With a courtly bow he lifted
her hand to his lips and kissed it like
true courtier, but, according to a
veracious Washington reporter, two
western congressman who saw the act
nearly fell off the portico.