The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

wilhelmina, the young Queen OF Holland.
wears bloomers when cycling.
Major. General G. b. Knowles has been ap-
pointed to the command OF the British Army
In India.
The Prussian Order of Merit, which Her
bert Spencer has declined, was accepted by
Carlyle, who would never accept any other
decoration.
President Diaz. OF Mexico, at sixty-flve
possesses the bodily aud mental activity OF
man OF twenty, due, he says, to the fact that
he has been great eater and good sleeper.
Anna Katherine Green's real name is Mrs.
Charles Rohlfs. She is married, and has
three children. Her home Is in Buffalo,
whore she writes her annual detective story.
Sir Walter Wilkin. London's new Lord
Mayor, is q member Of n large business firm
which makes the sale OF German yeast
specially, and has reaped u fortune there
from.
Barney Barnato the "Kaffir King" whose
enormous profits in South African mines
have lately startled the world is really named
Bernard Isaacs. He was once circus
tumbler.
Gladstone is. as usual, by no means idle.
This time II Is the English drama which he
is studying. IT presumed he contemplates
work comparing the English playwrlters
TO the Greek dramatists.
James Whitcomb Riley and Julian Haw.
thorne are the neatest chirognphists among
the literary men OF this generation. Theii
handwriting Is almost identical in style
fine, clean-cut and legible.
A check for s25, 900 has been sent to DR..
| W. G. Grace, England's "Grand Old Man"
at cricket, representing the 10000 shilling
subscriptions to the testimonial started for
him by the Daily Telegraph.
| naudat ha fn IN a,,a Eranoh nnvaliaI op.a
said OF H. NJ. Stanley; "He is the largest
reservoir OF human energy known to me
! since Napoleon. Iadmire him, think, more
than anything in the world"
| @. E. Bortchgrevink. who claims to have
been the first man to set foot on the great
antarctic continent. Is in Europe organizing
an exploring expedition thither. for which
South African millionaire Is paying the ex-
| penses.
Lord Bennet, the evangelist peer, who re-
| Gently married Miss Van Mnrter, of Tacoma,
WASH, is said to have been n skeptic up to
| four years ago. when he became converted
He is successful leader in sluu work In
| London.
King Humbert, of Italy. owns nearly 200
horses. and the greater number OF them are
English bred. The double row Of stalls
forms regular street, and cash animals
name is printed in large. white letters above
the manger.
Mr.. Farrell, member OF the English House
OF Commons for West Cavan, Ireland, re-
Gently broke the record for newly elected
members OF Parliament. AT 4.15 in the
afternoon he was sworn In and at $40 lac
was on his feet making his maiden speech.
Desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight OF Glln
died recently at Glin Castle, County
Limerick. Like the Knight of Kerry, tht
Knight OF Gin is n hereditary knighthooC
created by a Fitzgerald OF Desmond in the
fourteenth century, by his authority rs
Count Palestine, without the interposition
OF the crown.
General Saussier, who would command thu
French army In case Of war, is past sevent,
years, an age at which an American com
mander-in-chief would have been long re-
tired. but still q robust and clear-headet
man OF affairs. He Is a soldier OF unusua
stature, and at present he is the militar,
Governor Of Paris.