The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Some Interesting Notes About Those
 in the Public Eve.

Joseph Chamberlain will carry for the remainder of his life an ugly scar on his forehead, resulting from his recent cab accident.
 President Loubet has promised to visit Algeria, which has not seen a chief mag istrate since 1865. The visit will probably be paid next Easter.
 Senator Clark will shortly remove to this country the famous Preyer collection of paintings which he bought last De- cember at a cost of S3I5, GOO. The pictures are at present in Vienna.
 Reginald Vanderbilt is the only repre- sentative of his family with literary in clipations or ambitions. He has written short stories ever since he was a small boy at school, some of his work showing considerable imagination
 John w. Hutchinson. the last living member of the famous Hutchinson fam Settlers Association of Leod County, Minnesota. several days ago and sang "Old Granite State with all the vigor and vim of former years.
 John R. McVicar. who celebrated his golden wedding anniversary in Boston a few days ago, was the first white child born north of the Arctic circle. He was born at Fort Resolution, Great Slave Lake. January. 1928, and was christened by Sir John Franklin.
 Lord George Goschen, former English Chancellor of the Exchequer, heretofore best known as an authority on finance, is at work on biography of Goethe, of whose writings he is a great admirer. Years of research are said to have result ed in Sir Georges gathering together Q mass of new material.
 Dr. Harry Helfrich of Altoona Pa. last week celebrated his Tooth birthday At 30 they said he was going to die of con- sumption, but today he sleeps, eats and digests well, has a first rate memory and never wore spectacles. Dr. Helfrich still attends to office patients and works in his garden a couple of hours daily.
 The last of the Lafayette flower girls of Morristown, N. J.. is dead. She was Mrs. Mary l.. Morrow 90 years old. and she well remembered the great General 3 visit to Morristown in 1925. She was then 13. With fifty other girls she was select ed to carry flowers for the festival and her companions made her their queen.
 An impertinent newspaper person has been looking up the antecedentS of the better clawses' in New York. In the course of his research he found a num- Der of receipted bills of the last century showing that Stuyvesant sold handker- chiefs; a Depeyster, beans; Rhineland- er hats; a Brevoort, pewter spoons; a Beekman. molasses, and Roosevelt, lampblack.
 They have a story in Boston that when President Roosevelt was there Senator Lodge asked him if he had heard Sen ator Depew's new story" Mir Roosevelt answered: His new story? Impossible, Depew hasn't had a new story since he wrote about Jonah and the whale" The Senator laughed as he, said: "Oh, don't blame that one on Chauncey. It was written some thousands of years before he was born" Pretty much the same thing might be said of all Depew's sto- ries' was the Presidents retort.
 Sir Liang Chang, the new Chinese en- voy to this country, is a many y-sided man. He Is 8 years old and was one of the 1D students sent by China, beginning in 1872. to learn American ways. He entered Am herst College, but was unable to grad uate because of recall by his government. He was an expert catcher and pitcher on the base ball nine at Phillips and Am herst He is fond of society and Is an entertaining. converse tionalist It remains to be seen whether he can approach the retiring minister Wu as an after-dinner speaker. Sir Liang is widower.