Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — OLD WORLD NOTABLES [ARTICLE]

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

The Sultan of Turkey is fond of animals and has a wonderful collection at Yildiz. The King of Norway served as an ordinary apprentice in the Danish navy for nine months. The Czar of Russia has a strong dislike to being photographed alone. He is, however, quite at ease when posing as one of a group. Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit, is an educated man, tracing his ancestry through Mulai Idris, the founder of the Moroccan empire. King Leopold of Brussels is reckoned as the richest man in Europe so far as real estate is concerned. The German Emperor rarely prepares a speech and never uses notes when delivering an address in public. Lord Cromer is such an industrious man for England in Egypt that he rarely accepts an invitation to dinner. M. Rouvier, the French ex-premier, has secured $600,000 of the $1,400,000 necessary to start a new daily newspaper in Paris. It will be the organ of ths Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas.