Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

King Edward adores plovers’ eggs, which be generally spreads on Russian black bread. Sir Wilfred Lawson is said to ls> rejoiced over the fact -that 150 of the new members of the House of Commons are total abstainers. The lord chancellor is custodian of England's “great seal,” which in one month uses up moretthan four hundredweight of sealing wax. Etniie Cast<-lar, the great Spanish statesman, once declared that “the bomb throwing anarchist is a degenerate, whose brain has been excited by debauches or id-'.as.” Prince von Bulow, during his recent illness, received ,a letter from a jelcrjnary surgeon urging him to take the-con-tents of a bottle .1 omp I.nj or,- it. The m<-di<-ine’s >-ffi<-n<-y had beep fully tested, he wrote, on horses’ suffering from sunstroke. Frederick VIII., King of Ti-nmark, is Raid to be In the habit of invttingwlio.rs of leading political organs to visit the Castle to discuss the different political issues of the day. Prince Kotchoweff. a Russian, has been ordered by the Berlin courts to pay ?“SO a year for life to a waiter whom he assaulted during the Russo-Japanese war in a 1 Iresden hptel. < King Alfoiiso of Spain is devoted to the pleasures of the table, an! keeps a cook up ifntll 4 in the morning. Five meals are served in the twenty-fcur hour* at the Escurial palace.