The Seattle Republican., 1902-12-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An idle brother of the Prince of
Wales has been offered a partnership
in stock brokers firm with a salary
OF $4,000 year 1t is understood
that the young prince will only be use
full to the concern as a bait for snobs
as he has neither business capacity nor
experience. King Edward does not ap-
prove Of it and if the young prince ac-
cepts the offer in spite of King Edward,
the royal snobs of London will not deal
with the firm for fear of displeasure
to the king.
1t is reported that Emperor Will
iam's favOrite jewel is a mascot ring
OF his ancestors. The legend con-
nected withsthe ring is, "once a frog
entered the chamber of Elector John
of Brandenburg one day and placed
little stone on the bed and then dis
appeared mysteriously" The stone
was carefully preserved by the family
and the father of Frederick the Great
had it set in ring and since that time
the ring has always been worn by the
head of the house as a sort of mascot.
Alfred Belt, Kafir king, is now
h71il - -,
eighty-year lease in the city of Lon
don, which will concentrate all the
big South African companies under one
roof. The purchased money, construc-
ton, ground rent and maintenance of
the building, are estimated at $9,2O0,-
600, while the investment will return
to the Biet estate $25, 100000
The offer of William a. Clark, the
multo-milIionaire ef Mextana, to give
s1,0OO,O00 to the first male heir COM
ing to the home of his three married
children, resulted in his son William
A. Clark, Jr., winning the prize His
wife, who at one time was a type
writer in that city, gave birth to a.
son December 1st, who has been chris
tened William A. Clark, third, and
therefore is entitled and will inherit
the grand fathers extra million dol
lars because he is boy. Aside from
this sum it is estimated that if Mr..
Clark's estate gets no richer than it
is at present the boy will inherit $780,
100000 more.
Uncle Sydney Clark" the inventor
of the paper collar, who is now 90
years old, and who, during his life
time, has invented many useful things,
is now at work on a spring automobile
He lives at Black River, Wis, and
is in fairly good health for his years.
It is, however, thought that he will
not live to complete his new idea.
Though he has turned out many useful
inventions he is still a man of moder-
ate means.
A suit now pending before the SUI
preme court of England will be-
watched with much interest on both
sides of the water. A railway COM
pany has sued the trades union of
London for $4,000 damages for al
legged injuries to it's business, brought
on by the trades union which ordered
the strike on the road in 1900. If the
company succeeds in getting damages
in any amount it will mean that trades
unions will order strikes in any plant
or concern in which they are working
at their own financial risk.
When congress passed the pension
appropriation bill, few days ago.
carrying more than $137, 100000, the
same being done in twelve minutes,
it might be said that the government
money to it's old soldiers
at the rate of $11,0O0,0O0 per minute.
The age at which girls can marry
in Turkestan has been raised from
ten and twelve to fourteen and up-
ward. 1t is estimated that rs per cent.
of the girls who marry under the age
of twelve die before they are twenty,
and for that reason the Russian gov-l
ernment has decided to legally regu-
late the marrying age.
The Vienna medical society is much
concerned over young woman in that
city who is reported to have a musi-
cal heart. The sounds begin with a
very high note which becomes lower
and softer and then rises again. The
doctors attribute the phenomenon to
a strained sinew or nerve, or to NAL
formation Of the valves.
A man in Munich, Ind, recently,
while asleep dreamt that he was taken
before court and sentenced to death.
His wife who was near him for some
reason, put her hand on his shoulder.
and he awoke and at once began to