Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1905 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Sarath Kumar Ghosh, the East Indian author, is expected to come to this country next season on a lecture tour. On his recent visit to Paris, the Shah of_Persia was fanned night and day by relays of perspiring attendants. The Emperor of Abyssinia has decorated the German emperor with the Star of Ethiopia and has sent him a number of presents. The Russian minister at Rio Janeiro and all his family are Buddhists, while the Japanese minister and his secretary are Christians. Sir William Garsten, on a recent trip to the upper Nile, shot the largest elephant on record since the reconquest of the Soudan, x Its tusks weighed 294 pounds. King Edward’s reign has not brought joju to the hearts of Loudon tradespeople, as a greater portion of the trousseau of Princess Margaret of Connaught Avas purchased in Paris. The lnte Sir D. M. Petti, a parsee of Bombay, who founded numerous cotton mills in India, gave $2,500,000 to benevolent projects and was created a baron, an honor conferred on only one other native. Dr. Henry H, Rasmus of the First M. E. church, Catford, England, objects to the practice of lowering the lights while the sermon is preached. He says he Avants to see when his congregation has had enough. Sawa Moroshoff, the Russian “wool king,” is dead, aged only 44. He employed 70,000 workers. At the beginning of the war with Japan he made his government a present of 100,000 blankets, Avhich never reached the army iu Manchuria. Lord Darnley, father of James I. of England, was the son of Mathew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, and Margaret, the daughter of Queen Margaret Tudor, widow of James IV. of Scotland, and her second husband, Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus. The King of Belgium is developing a mania for building that recalls King Ludwig 11. of Bavaria. The city of Brussels has sanctioned his plans for a “Mont des Arts,” to coat $40,000,000, and he has numerous other projects contemplated or under way. Sir Clement R. Markham, who has just retired from the presidency of the British Royal Geographical Society, began life as a midshipman in the old days of sailing ships. The Marquis of Bute of England may well be described as a favorite of fortune. He has eleven titles, is a baronet of Nova Scotia, and hereditary keeper of Rothesay caatle. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, since his accession to the throne of that principality in 1887, has spent nearly a quarter of hia time abroad, and ia consequently known aa “The Traveler.”