Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

London Truth asserts that “now, for the first time in centuries, England possesses. in Sir Edward Elgar, at least one composer of international repute.” The Czar of Russia and the German Kaiser might each steep in a different house every night for a month and not exhaust the number of his palaces. Leoncavallo, engaged by the Kaiser to write an opera on a German subject, has abated the ill feeling iu the fatherland against him by denying that he said Germany hns at present no great composer. The German Emperor hns conferred imperial court hunting costumes upon three English noblew v omen—the dowager countess of Dudley, the iparchioncss of Lansdowne, and the marchioness of Ormonde. Capt. Cecil Battine of the King's Hussars. British army, in his forthcoming book, “The Crisis of the Confederacy,” describes, from his own point of view, the campaigns of Gettysburg and the Wilderness. J. M. Bacon, n distinguished aeronaut. who died recently, was n scholar of Trinity college, Dublin, was ordained and held a curacy, and later turned to science. King Leopold of Belgium, who has never signed a death warrant during the thirty-nine years of bis reign, thus keeps the promise made his mother on her deathbed. Bizet died three months after ths first production of "Carmen” in PnFis, it being n failure. The thousandth performance of the opera has just been had la the French capital.