Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Argentina’s president has a $7,500 uniform. King Alfonso of Spain has a new automobile. Ex-President Pierola of Peru has $50,000,000. Earl of Harrington owns a grocery in London. The Grand Duchess Nicholas Nicolaiewitch is a Russian nun. All of the Danish princesses are taught to sew and make their own dresses. Queen Victoria advocates sensible footwear and practices it by wearing felt shoes. Ike Duke of Richmond and Gordon, in his eighty-seconjJ year, goes fishing almost daily. The Prince of Wales inspected the Scots Guards prior to their departure for South Africa. The Due d’Orleans has surrounded his estate in England with a strong wire fence ten feet high. Lord Lister ranks Sir William Turner as the foremost living anatomist. Princess Victoria of Wales and Princess Charles of Denmark cling to cycling as their favorite exercise. The late Sir Edwarl Victor Lewis Hoalton ip his will left the Prince of Wales what is said to be the only badge of the old Order of St. John of Jerusalem to existence. V The new governor of Bombay has been made a baronet by the Queen, in order ■sight he continued. •*