Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1899 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Lord Salisbury was the first English premier to visit Australia. Gen. Sir Arthur Cotton is one of England’s oldest soldiers, being in his 96th year. The Prince of Wales’ breakfast never varies. It always consists of tea, toast and one egg. Prof. Blumentritt, through whom Agulnaldo and bis colleagues have been making their cause known to Europe, la a member of the faculty of an Austrian university, and has made a thirty years’ study of the Philippine archipelago and Its history. Don Carlos has taken a curious and striking advantage of the foreign “postcard craze” to further his cause, having had some printed with portraits of himself and' his wife, with sac simile signatures below, under which communications are written. • Count and Countess Boni de Castellane have just leased for three years, with the option of purchase, the Chateau de Marias, belonging to the Due de Noailles. Three million dollars will be spent in restoring the estate. Queen Victoria possesses two of the oldest watches in the world. Both have silver dials, and are about as large as halt and the other a repeater.