Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

In the Ctar’s palace at Tsnrskoe Selo there is an amber room, the walls of which are composed of the finest amber, formed into a multitude of intricate dosigns. i , Zauaida Smoliaomoff, who has moved In the highest circles in the German capital, has been sentenced at Leipaio to nine months’ imprisonment for espionage. The Khedive of Egypt is one of ths potentates who have profited, both morally and financially, from the protection of Britain. In addition to his annual grant- of $500,000 he has, amassed ar. enormous prioate fortune, and his morals are infinitely better. Sir Edward Elgar, whom Worcester (England) honored at the age es 48 by conferring on him the freedom of the city, is one of those fortunate composers whose reward comes while they are in the prime of life and activity. The Shah of Persia, ou his recent trip to St. Petersburg, created consternation at the imperial court by going to bed for tweuty-fqor hours at a \(tretch, giving strict orders that he \y.-(a not to be disturbed Minder pain of death. Many times the days selected were those on which special festivities hid been arranged in bis bondr. B