Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

The Spanish minister has one of the finest stables in Washington. T. P. O’Connor says that Mr. Balfour la growing old rapidly in appearance. The late Hylton was one of the few surviving officers of the Balaklava charge. Louis S. Colin, the new Lord Mayor of Liverpool, is the second Jew to hold that office. Arthur Shirley’s “Queen or Country” is the first Transvaal war play produced in London. Lord Beauchamp, governor of New South Wales, has taken a Bible class in the parish at Sydney. The Earl of Rosebery has been initiated as an honorary member of the Ancient Order of Foresters. The Marquis of Lome, whose wife is a daughter of Queen Victoria, in official documents is usually styled “John Campbell, commonly known as the Marquis of Lome.” According to the London Standard the betrothal of Queen Wilhelmina to Prince William of Wied is definitely settled. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Great Britain’s ambassador Spain, will resign his post on reaching his seventieth birthday. According to the London press, Lord Salisbury, since the death of his wife, is leading a life so retired as almost to be hermit like. The Shah of Persia reserves to himself the right of riding in a coach of barbaric splendor drawn by six horses, their long tails dyed crimson.