The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-05
ABOUT THE WORLD.
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 One of South Dakota's largest orchards is owned and cared for by q woman, Mrs. Laura A. Alderman of Hurley. It covers 13o acres and has yielded 10,o00 bushels or apples.
 In Reading, Pa, juryman wrote "puny" instead of punitive" on his slip in the trial of damage suit against an electric railroad company. Application to on this mistake.
 The German Empress has hair almost snow white, and while really only a year older than the Emperor impresses the beholder as being his senior by a much greater margin. William II does not look his forty-three years.
 The election of Hall Caine to the House of Keys in the Isle of Man recalls the fact that there are three Parliaments in the British Isles besides the one that meets in London. Guernsey has one, Jcr- sey another and the Isle of Man the third.
 Should the Baroness Burdett-Coutss live to witness the coronation of Edward VII next June it will be the third event of the kind she will have attended. At the age of sixteen she saw George " CiOWHtup anu Siit tlSo titlcIu'u tiit SOiO- nation of Victoria.
 The young King of Italy is one of the | most profound students of politics and | statecraft among the royal personages | of Europe. It is said that when the I>ing was Prince of Naples his principal pleas rre during his long yachting cruises was i found in the perusal of Italian works on political science and economy. Although | he is only thirty-two years old, it is said | that his mind is more mature than that | of many men who are old enough to be 1 his father.
 Mayor Hart. again the Republican nom- l inee for Mayor of Boston, has been nomi- mated seven times for that office. Mayor | Lincoln was a candidate seven times, and i holds the unique record of having been | elected seven times. The first, Mayor, | Quincy, was a candidatr nine times, and was elected six times
 Tho valuable collection of portraits of the Lee family, including the portraits | of Washington, Custis and Lee families | has been lent to Washington and Lee | University by General G. w. Custis Lee and they will be hung in the University Art Gallery. Since the Presidency of Rob- ert E. Lee. extending through the time of his son, General Custis Lee and the | Hon, William l.: Wilson as President of 1 the University the portraits have adorned the walls of the Presidents mansion.
 The Hon. J. NJ. Longyear of Marquette Mich. who built himself d palatial home at d cost of $500O00 in that city, has be- come so embttered against the city for | allowing q railroad to run so near his property that he will move the house | stone by stone, to Boston, which project
 will almost reach the original cost of the structure
 pr. Myles Standish has just been re- elected Governor of the Massachusetts Society of the Maytlower descendants.
 A valuable and interesting relic has re- gently been discovered in the ruins of ar old house in Goshen, N. Y. While dig ging in the ruins d copper plate, probably hidden there more than q hundred years ago, was found, bearing the lsgend, "G | Washington. Made by Rolison, Sculpt.. and l. Reid, New York, l793. It is re-
 markedly fine piece of work and is in eX-
 Cellcnt condition.
 l When King Edward presented a cash mere shawl to Lady Victoria Grey upon the occasion of her recent marriage, it was an evidence that he intended to con tinue at least one of the customs of his mother. In the reign of Victoria there
 were few young ladies high in royal favor 1 who escaped a cashmere shawl when they | were married. -.