Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
NOTES OF MEN AND WOMEN

lbsen is reported to have said that there
We're three things he could not endure
chlldren, flowers and music.
Alexis Sergevitch Suvorin. editor of the
NoNoe Vremya, now seventy, has been for
years the greatest figure in the Russian
journalistic world
In 1880 John Jacob Astor was the only
man in New York who was worth 81 600 oal
Now the entire Aston estate is approaching
the SWO,Wo.0o0 mark.
Cardinal Adult who for over n month
has been seriously i'll with liver complaint
and who has been operated on for the ex-
traction of pleura serum. is dying In Rome.
Italy.
The chair Of dramatic literature In the
University of California has been offered
to Ben Greet. the actor-manager. who
brought Everyman" to America.
Two historic names appear in curious
proximity In Spring street, near Macdou-
gal, New York. Over a restaurant window
Is a sign bearing the name Aaron Burr:
almost directly appears the Inscription
Alexander Hamilton. carpenter and
builder"
President Castro OF Venezuela is very
touchy on the subject of his short stature,
and Will never be seen in company with a
tall man or woman If he can help 1t. Yet
one OF the most familiar photographs of
castro shows him standing beside United
States Minister Bowen, who Is more than
six feet in height.
A Topeka, Kan. newspaper SAYS: J. f
Brewer, state senator from Dickinson coun-
~ and the egg king of Kansas. passed
through here today on the way TO Kansas
City, where he will attend a convention OF
egg dealers. Senator Brewer shipped 100
carloads of eggs last year. AS there are
IZoVo dozens or eggs In every car. he bought
ana marketed total of IA. 10000 eggs
The Empress of Germany has sent ffty-
diDlDmaS h.- %
the women nurses and employees on North
brother Island who distinguished them
selves in the work of rescue at the time
of the disaster to the General Slocum last
June.
Cen Alexandra Ybarra, Venezuelan min
lister OF foreign affairs. has lived in the
United States almost as long as he has in
his native country. He married the daugh-
ter of a former American minister to Ven
eZueIa. ana IN the summer resides in BoS-
ton, where his wife's family has lived for
many years. He has gained some reputa-
ton as an author.
Luther Burbank, the plant WIZARD of
California, Is evidently not the only man
alive who conjures with nature. 1t is re-
ported that w. Bell of MUMMY Louth
Ireland, after experimenting for five years.
has produced tomatoes and potatoes grown
on the same plant from the same tuber.
Prof. Flinders Petrfe, the Psychologist.
has made some important discoveries in the
Sinai peninsula. The ancient temple of
Seabt el khadem five days camel journey
south of Suez, he found to be of a Semitic
type. different from any other known Egyp-
tian temple, possessing two courts for ablu-
ton and a long series of subterranean
chambers. These had been added by sue
cessive kings from the eighteenth to the
twentieth dynasties.
MALI Marakoff, only daughter Of the Rus
sian admiral, who was drowned by the sink
Ing of the warship Petropavlosk. has been
chosen maid of honor to the czarna and to
the dowager empress of Russia. Her mother
woman of Polish origin, is a profound
linguist and accomplished musician. She
has dabbled in occuAjsm and has written
books and plays. ~ present she Is
gagged on biography of her husband.
John Dunning. the jantor of Maine Hail.
at Bowdoin College. has in his possession
the compositor's stick which was used in
"Outre Mer.' published in 1912. This COM
positors stick has been owned since 1925
by T. s. Mcclellan, who is today ninety-six
years old. the oldest man in Brunswick and
the oldest printer in the state, well
the oldest Mason in the state.
In 1892 President Paul Kruger opened the
Jewish synagogue in johannesburg. The
Rev. DIR. Hertz Of that city tells how he
persisted in uncovering his head. although
that act was an offense to the members of
the Jewish faith. whose guest he was. And
the words he used in the ceremony Of open
ing the synagogue were: Il now declare
this place of worship open in the name OF
our dear Lord Jesus Christ, amen
During the winter just passed Japans
generals along the Shakhe sep,n their time
yariously General Nodzu." according to
Japanese newspapers. studied typewriting.
General Kuroki kept barnyard fowls. Dur
ing the Hekautai engagement General Ko-
dana scarcely slept at all for whole
week, but did not seem one whit the worse
for his experience" General Oyama was
reported as being the same robust. merry
hearted gentleman as ever.
Frederick Viliers, the English cores
spondent, writes as follows of a meeting
he had with Admiral Togo on board the
latter's flagship: THE great man had a
peculiar way of standing with both hands
spread out his hips and arms akimbo.
1 took sketch of him in this position. and
then / found a most amusing coincidence:
His officers. from the chief of his staff
down to the middies, all aped their beloved
chief and stood with their arms and hands
in the same attitude"
vocated the appointment OF Lord Kitchener
to the British war office. We have tried
philosophers enough. he said In a recent
speech, ''and we have tried the amateur
civilian until We weary at the very look OF
his name. Is it not time when you have
the inestmable boon, given to few nations
at the present moment, of a great practical
neglect his services?" In reply to this
London writer suggests that in time OF
peril Lord Kitchener might be more valu-
able in the field than in the war office.
Now. children" said the teacher OF tho
Juvenile Sunday school class, can any ono
tall hat ina fha n