Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1905 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

The late Sig. Tnmagno, In spite of his lavish generosity, managed to amass a larger fortune than any singer of his time, with perhaps the exception of Jean de Iteszke. His only daughter inherited more than 91,000,000. When Sir Michael Hieks-Beach was chancellor of the exchequer ft was an Interesting study to watch him walking up Downing street to attend an important council. He would inflict heavy blows and swift passes at imaginary enemies upon the pavement with the end of his faithful umbrella. The Bight lion. Sir Francis Bertie, British ambassadoi in Paris, recently passed his sixty-first birthday, having been forty-one years in service. The Duke of Argyll was 00 yenrs ot age recently. During the last twentyone years he has produced upwards of a dozen books, including the opera of “Diarmid” In the great jubilee year. Ibsen works in a room In which therg are doors opening into five other apartments. As lie composes he wanders from room to room. He eats little whils writing his dramas and declares that good meals prevent keen brain work.