Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-22
committee throughout, one may indeed
hope for a memorial worthy of the man II

committee throughout, one may lnoeea
hope for a memorial worthy of the man II
will commemorate.
It is comforting in these days. when Pro-
fessor Osler tells us we ought to be super
ANIMATED at forty, to see two veterans Ike
Lord Strathcona and General BOOM I'M
dertaking long and firing journeys: Inc
general who is seventy-sfx years oid. mas
Just left London on world tour, with
promise that when he returns he will en-
bark on another evangelical expeuuoh
throughout England. Lord Strathcona. VINO
is eight years older than the general, left
Liverpool on Wednesday on the Oceanic,
and a telegram was received from Queens
town reporting that he was enjoying the
trip. On reaching the other side a special
train will be ready to convey him to OF
tawa. Lord Strathcona's predecessor as
high commissioner for Canada. Sir Charles
Upper. who is also eighty-four years old.
Is now touring over Europe, and IS ex-
pected in London shortly.
Lord Strathcona is a marvellous specimen
for his years, and enjoys good health. Like
Oliver Wendell Holmes, he declines to be
regarded as old. A gentleman who met him
at Liverpool was expressing his sympathy
with his lordship on his recent indisposi-
ton, which had confined him to his house
in London for two or three weeks An:
remarked Strathcona, with smile, "a
young man like me doesn't think much OF
that"
Some rather gruesome relics of Napoleon
are to be sold at Christie's next week.
emperor, taken from a plaster cast OF his
face at st. Helena; a lock of his hair. cut
of after death: piece of the plank from
which his coffin was made, and part OF
the actual coffin. Altogether there are
twenty-one articles, whose recital goes on
in this porst-mortem strain. They are all
contained in an empire shew case, and are
to be sold as one collection.
novel show has been arranged at
DowdeswelPs Gallery. Cosway is reput-
eddy the first mfniaturfst to have painted
eyes divorced from their setting. The fash
ion began when he executed for the prince
regent portrait" Of the beautiful eye Of
man In Europe wore in a bracelet round
his wrist. Once started, the fashion spread
and many eminent mfniaturists showed
their skill in this direction.
The $500 paid by Mr.. Pferpont Morgan
for the original autograph manuscript of
Wendell Holmes "Autocrat Of the Break
fast Table" would occupy a high place
in this country. Last year the family
Bible of Burns made FL $50; in 1897 Scott's
Lady of the Lake." 1,29O, against 264
guineas In 1861: in 1903 twenty-nine letters.
by Keats, 1,O70: in 1904, letter of Nelson
to Lady Hamilton. the last complete one
in 1897 1.-THE Memoir of His Birth, Life and
Services" H.O00.
A relative of the new Vice President Mr..
Frederick Fairbanks. will give his first
piano recital in London on Tuesday next.
Mr. Fairbanks was born in Paris, hts
father being the well-known proprietor Of
Fairbanks scales. The new player studied
under Carl Stasny in Frankfort. and was
for some years professor at the Dresden
Royal { nservatOire. He has pleayed with
great success IN Berlin, Paris and other
places in Europe.