Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Two of Queen Victoria’s grandsons are now at school at Eton. Queen Victorin has had a handsome automobile regularly attached to her stables. The Queen of Italy is fond of the English and Americans, showing them special courtesy at the Italian court. A movement has been started in England toward placing a memorial on the grave of the Duke of Westminster. The King of Spain has discarded hia pony, Puce, for a,fine chestnut horse, now that he has entered his thirteenth year. Minnie Botha, the 11-year-old daughter of Gen. Botha of the Transvaal army, is a pupil in a school at Ilighgate, London. Gen. Bullcr was honored recently by having a postofflee named after him in North Victoria by the Canadian postal authorities. Allan Maclean, the new premier of Victorin, is a poet as well ns a politician. A book of his i>oems bears the title, “Two Glimpses of Nature.” The King of Portugal has presented to Great Britain the ground in Zambesi* where the remains of Bishop Mackenzie lie at rest, and a suitable memorial will be erected. The mother of the Queen df Holland objects to the title of dowager, and an official statement has been made by" the young Queen that her mother must be called "Queen -Emma \of tke„ Netherlands.”

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