Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1905 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Sevick, the master who taught Ifubrlik, has but one eye. The German Emperor has a special room where his uniforms art kept. Harry Furnis, English caricaturist and illustrator, has written a novel. Russia has lost its best known chess player by the death of Emanuel Schiffers. Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore is a pedestrian of note. He walks ten miles every day. Senor de Cologan, new Spanish minister at Washington, is the scion of an old Irish family. Grand Duke Sergius drew $1,500,000 a year during his term of office as governor of Moscow. The King of Italy possesses the largest collection of coins in the world. It is valued at SOOO,OOO. Richard Strutt, ■ son of Lord Rayleigh, has invented a clock which, be says, will run 200 years. In spite of the cares of state. King Edward finds time to devote to his country estate at Sandringham. The German Emperor speaks and writes English and French as fluently' as lie does his native tongue. The London Pilgrims’ Club is arranging a dinner for Gen. Horace Porter, retiring ambassador to France. Henry Tollemache, for twenty-four years • member of the British Parliament, bag aaver made a speech. M. Coquelin, famous French actor, is ardently desirous of breaking into politico, and is sanguine of success. Prof. W. R. Dunstan, an Englishman, has discovered several mineral* In Ceylon which contain the rare earth thorta