Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1905 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Premier Balfour is getting fleshy. He has been slender heretofore. It is understood that Admiral Alexieff will be appointed Governor of Moscow. Israel Zangwill is confident of the success of his scheme to colonize Jews in South Africa. An international fund has been started to carry on the work of the late Prof. Finsen of Sweden. “The late Louis de Moulin, Denmark’s prolific novelist, used to write half a dozen stories at once. John Hare, the well-known English actor, denies that lie contemplates retirement Iroru the stage. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman, who died recently, once refused tlie office of viceroy of India. Premier Balfour sleeps twelve,hours a day, and, while a notoriously lazy man, is one of tlie best golf players in England. * Alfred De Rothschild of the famous banking family has a private circus at his country scat, Hnlton house, in England. The ring is about 100 yards in diameter. Maxim Gorki attended the performance of one of his plays at Helsingfors recently, and was accorded a tumultuous reception, showing that one Russian is popular in Finland. The third volume of Prince Bismarck’s memoirs will not* be published until after the death of the present German emperor. Special reasons govern the Bisninrck family in this matter. Dr. Guermonprez of Dille, France, favors an international understanding between physicians and authorities whereby tbe former may put an end to tbe Urea of those incurably afflicted.