Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — Short Personals. [ARTICLE]

Short Personals.

Former Archduke Leopold has become a private in the Swiss army. Sir Alma-Tadema is to be paid £14,000 for his picture, “The Finding of Moses.” The lord chief justice of England was well known in his younger days as a boxer of note. King of the Cocos islands, i|ear Sumatra, rules over the smallest-province in the world. M. Sebillot has succeeded M. Deniker as president of the Anthropological Society of Paris. Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist and poet, will write no more, it is said, although his mental and physical condition is practically perfect. Alfonso XIII. is said to have inherited his father’s remarkably steady eye and sure hand, and is now accounted one of the best shots in Spain. M. Jean Richepin, author of “Du Barry," was.born in Medeah, Algeria, in 1849, and has, in his time, been a circus clown, sailor and a miner. George Leyron, a well-educated Parisian, earns a comfortable livelihood by figuring as the fourteenth guest at dinner parties, to help superstitious thirteen people out. Count von Eulenberg, marshal of the imperial German court, enjoys the distinction of having more orders and decorations on him than any other man in the world. He has seventy-five to his credit. J. N. Nowak, an Austrian meteorologist, claims to be able to forecast the weather by the means of a plant called "Abrus precatorius,” discovered by him in Mexico years ago. He declares that he will erect his first weather stations in London and. Vienna. Lord Grimthorpe’s eccentricities are gossiped about by the London M. A. P., which says: “He hates new clothes and dislikes collars and ties. His favorite hat is a Panama, which he cheerfully places under the pump and souses, then clapping 9 on his b** s d.