Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Premier Balfour, so it is said, is putting on fat. Friends of Lord Curzon predict that he will yet be the grand lama of Tibet. Herbert, son of the late W. E. Gladstone, has spent half his life in the House of Commons. He is 50 years of age. William Waldorf Astor of London has just added $1,000,060 worth of Broadway property to his American holdings. Sir Norman Lockyer has been elected president of a new society for the popularizing of science called the British Science guild. Sir George Lydenham Clarke, secretary of the British defense committee, has been governor of Victoria and filled many foreign missions. At a recent auction sale in Paris letters by Thiers, Casimir-Perier, Carnot, Grevy, MaSMa'hon and Faure sold from 45 cents to $3.40 each. Hugo Gorlitz, at one time Paderewski’s manager, says be has discovered two young Viennese girls whose talents will astound the world. The eminent German astronomer, Wilhelm Forster, has just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the date when ha received his doctor’s degree. Shabfin Bey, a native prince of the Albanians, Is in London trying to obtain funds sos the purpose of continuing the insurrection against Turkey. The MacGregor celebrated a birthday recently. He is the fifth baronet of Edinchip, in the braes of Bolquhidder, a place bought by the first baronet in 1798. Queen Alexandra has had a replica made of Mr. Hughes’ portrait of her in her coronation robes, and will send it as a gift to the capital of her native country. Dr. Lorenz is said to have received an offer of $40,000 to reduce the congenital hip dislocation of the itmall son of a brewer in the Unified States, the name not being given. Lord and Lady Roberts will visit .the grave of their son in South Africa this fall. The young man, a lieutenant, was killed during one of Gen. Buller’s attempts to cross the Tugela river.