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President Diax is 90.

President Diax is 90.
Secretary Halford was a newsboy.
Foraker has Just sold 1000 acres OF
land for $40 an acre.
The oldest reigning sovereign in Europe
is the king of Denmark. who Is one year
the senior of Queen Victoria.
Sardou. the great French playwright,
writes hand so fine that il almost re-
quires a magnifying glass 10 read it.
Rose Terry Cooke says that 70 keep
summer boarders one ought TO have good
health, good temper, and unfailing pa.
tience.
The oldest surgeon in the world Is said
to be Nj. w. Salmon, of Cambridge, Eng.
land. He was born in March, 1700 Re-
vue Scientifique.
Mrs. General Grant is aging rapidly.
There has been marked change both in
appearance and in her manner within
the past two years.
Yale's oldest living graduate is said to
be Edward McCrady, of Charleston, s. c.,
who came out in the class of 1920 with
President Woolsey.
Engineer charts prepared by Robert n.
Lee, then of the United States army,
over so years ago, are now in use in ST.
Louis for river improvements.
Miss Beatrice Kipling, sister of Mr..
Rudyard Kipling, has written a novel
entitled The Heart of Maid" which
will be published shortly in this country.
Hon. Harvey Rice. father of the Ohio
common school system, is now 81 years
of age, and is living quietly in Cleveland.
where he still spends an hour daily with
his pen.
Justin Mccarthy the younger, who is
doing such brilliant work in literature, is
only 80 years old, and yet has published
IL books and seven plays In personal
appearance he is tall and thin, and has q
noticeably small head.
Miss Francis f. Willard says that her
rising hour is 2 or 80, and that 10 o'clock
is her latest hour for retiring. To this
habit of "early to bed" she attributes her
lifelong good health and steady cheerful
ness.
Henry Hertz, professor of physics in
the University of Bonn, whose remarka-
BILE discoveries in electricity have given
him place in Germany similar to that
held by Edison in this country, 10 ayoung
man hardly over "a years old.
Mrs. Mary C. Leavitt, who has just rs-
turned from eight years Of temperance
work in foreign parts, says that for seven
years she never saw face she had met
before; yet everywhere she found some
touch of nature and kinship.
George William Curtis gracefully says
of Oliver Wendell Holmes: "For just 90
years, since his first gay and tender note
was heard, Holmes has been fulfilling
the promise of his matin song. He has
become patriarch of our literature,
and all his countrymen are his lovers.
Gladstone is comparatively poor man,
and the occasional literary work he does
for magazines and periodicals Is not the
result of any desire to add To his estab-
lished fame as writer. He takes very
matter of fact view of such productions,
reckoning them simply as valuable help
to the liquidation of his heavy household
expenses. For every article he writes he
receives 81 900.
One of the prettiest women in the Blue
Grass region of Kentucky is Miss Nanette
Mcdowell, the great granddaughter Of
Henry Clay. She is slight and grace
full woman, with auburn hair, blue eyes.
and perfect oval face, little pale and
serious. She lives with her father IN the
old Clay homestead of Ashland, one OF
the most beautiful and romantic places
in all Kentucky.
Hamilton Aide declares in print that
he never saw lady at work all the time
that he was in America. He went the
length and breadth of the land and saw
no pleasant litter of employment in the
parlors that have nowhere the appear
ance of being much lived in. He has no
doubt that American women do sonfe-
times knit and sew. but they conceal it
in some room which the visitor does not
penetrate.