The Washington times., 1901-07-16
PERSONAL.

Governor LaFollette, of Wisconsin, is
quite ill, and has arceled all his engage
ments on the advice of his physicians.
Among illustrious personages with queer
fads must be numbered Prince Luitpold
of Bavaria. His collection of beetles is
the most extensive and complete in the
world, and the prince Is a skilled ento-
moogisr deeplys versed in the habits of
ants, bees. moths, flies, earwigs and the
insect world generally.
A well-known French missionary, NJ da
Silva, has been killed by poisoned ar
row while endeavoring to land on Paget
Island. in the Dutch West Indies.
Comparatively little has been heard in
recent years of Lord Cross, who was
seventy-eight years old on May 30. He
has played a leading part in the political
history of England. for during two
Conservative administrations he was
Home Secretary for India, though in the
last Parliament he was Lord Privy Seal.
1t is commonly reported that he was one
of her subjects most intimately asso-
ciated with Queen Victoria whom he
was constantly called upon to advise In
the management of her private affairs.
Andrew Carnegie has promised a gift
to Halifax. amounting, 1t is understood,
to about $4,000.
One would hardly look for the grandson
of British Prime Minister and the son
of Speaker of the House of Commons
among the rank and file of fighting regi-
ment at the front. The Hon. Sidney Peel
is such man, and he has told the story
of his experiences in the Boer war in the
pages of Trooper sos. |. Y" recently
published He is the third son of Wis
count Peel, the ex-Speaker. He had a dis
tinguished career at Oxford, and is bar
rister at law. He is secretary of the
Probate Court
Lord Londonderry. who has just been
appointed an aide-de-camp to King Ed
ward. has done a good de:u of useful pub
lie service for Great Britain. and is at
present Postmaster General. one of his
ancestors fought at Asincourt, and the
second Lord Londonderry. better known
as Lord Castlereagh. was a distinguished
diplomatist in the reign of the first Ma
tertain a good deal both in London and
the country, and Lord Londonderry has
been more than once suggested as Lord
Lieutenant ofrIreland.
Edwin A. Abbey. the artist. is still at
work on his series of HOY Grail pic
lures begun ten years ago. He says that
the work will probably keep him employed
for n decade longer. and he has turned
his English house. Morgan Hall. into a
veritable museum of arms, costumes, and
other objects of the Middle Ages
The Rev. DIR. George E. Post, of the
Syrian Protestant College. at Beyroot,
has just completed a Bible dictionary in
Arabic 1.-TWO volumes), to the preparation
of which he has given many years of
labor Although labeled a translation. IL
is almost as much a work of authorship
as if IL had been original. DIR. Post pub
lished, some years ago. complete con-
cordance to the Arabic Bible, a work
which had to be constructed upon lines of
its own, as no translation of such book
is practicable. The doctor is also en-
gagged as chairman of Il committee on
Bible study, cooperating with Mr.. Miller
and Prof. West in preparing compre-
hensiYe scheme of Biblical instruction for
the college at Beyroot.
Prince Macmillan of Saxony, who for
some time mnistered to the Roman Cath
olic poor of East London. Is now one of
the professors Of the Roman Catholic Uni |
versity of Fribourg. and has earned such |
a reputation that. encouraged by his su-
periors he has undertaken n preaching !
tour in Switzerland. 3