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Counselor at Law Brooklyn, N. Y...
Elihu Root spends the winter months in Manhattan, the rest in Clinton, N. Y. opposite his beloved Hamilton College where, as "Cube" Root, son of the mathematics professor, he was the youngest and smartest member of his class (1864). Alert, he reads widely, keeps abreast of current affairs. But what he thinks, he keeps almost wholly for those of his "young" intimates who are still alive...
...their respective groups, by far the most famed was Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen. White as a snowdrift, except for his black nose and black eyes, Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen is the fabulous French poodle, owned by Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt of Katonah, N. Y., which has won the championships of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. His owner is fond of telling the story of how Nunsoe Due de la Terrace last year dragged her on snowshoes to the Katonah railroad station in time to catch a train for Boston where he took Best...
Because she loved animals, Mrs. Henderson once paid $25,000 for a canvas entitled Nude Child With Dove, and then tried to force the artist to put the little girl in a petticoat. Mrs. Mary Y. Henderson got it for $100 last week. Old Mrs. Henderson's love of animals again forced her to pay $10,000 for an oil painting of a four-horse brewery hitch by Edmund de Pratere. George Goodacre, local restaurateur, got it for $310 to put in his lunchroom...
...Perry, N. Y., Herman Strutter showed incisor marks on the stump of his wooden leg, told his neighbors that while he slept it had been gnawed off by a beaver...