Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1903 — OLDWORLS NOTABLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLDWORLS NOTABLES

With the recent death of the Duke of Richmond passed away the last of Wellington’s aids-de-camp. Dr. E. Grlmmich, professor of anatomy, has been chosen rector of the German university at Prague. Henry W. Lucy, “Uncle Toby, M. P.,” of Punch, is visiting th# United States. He is less than fiva feet tall. J. W. Ryder of Devonport, England, 04 years of age, asserts that he saw Napoleon Bonaparte la 1815 at Plymouth. Prince Eitel Frits, second son of the Emperor of Germany, is fond of theatricals and lately appeared in a play at Buda-Pestb. M. Jacques Lebaudy, who is endeavoring to found an empire in the desert of Sahara, is in London buying supplies for hia colony. Dr. Charles Steggall, Just retired from the organ at Lincoln’s Inn chapel in London, is 77 yearn old, and has made music In the chepel nearly half a century. King Edward has presented President Loubet with a shorthorn bull and heifer from the royal herd at Windsor. Violet Langham, slater of the wife of the German ambassador at Washington, will te a member of the ambassador’s family this year. Prince Khilkoff, the Cur’s minister of railroads, looks mere like an Americas than s Russian. He has the true Yankee energy and push. Rudolf von Gottschall, German playwright and novelist, recently celebrated hie eightieth birthday at Lei pale. He hat hew an author for aixty years.