The Washington herald., 1908-05-03

has been looked upon as one Of the really
great scholars of England. this country.
and Canada, in each of which he has Ia
/ bored in responsible positions for the ad
Vancement OF higher learning
Canadas other two notable links take
US back to the 30's and '40s. It was in
1 1898, when he was eighteen, that Lord
( StrathcOna. for years head Of the great
/ Hudson Bay Company, entered the en-
/ ploy of that company as a clerk IN Lab
radOr. Then he was known as Donald A.
/ Smith During the 4Gs and the SOS he
got to know the trappers' Canadian will
/ derness better than any other man In the
cOmpany's emplOy-the company at that
I time was sole governor Of millions Of
acres of snOw-cOveTed northumberland his
! selection as resident governor in 1853 was
practically inevitable From ls45, when,
ar twenty-fOur, ne was elected to the pro-
/ vincial assembly Of Nova Scotia, until
/ 1900, when, at seventy-nine. MS constit-
uency for the first time failed to return
/ him 10 political life Sir Charles Tupper
was a great political power first in Nova
Scotia and then In the Dominion Fedora
/ tion, formed In 1870
II was D. o. Mills, who will be eighty
I three in September. who organized the
! finances Of the Pacific coast in the so 5
and COS. Francis Joseph's career as the
I head Of Austro-Hungary dates back to
/ the stirring days of the K0ssuth revolu-
/ ton. In 1854 Sardou had accepted his first
/ play. which he always has felt would
1 have been a success had not the stage
! lights gone out at critical moment and
thereby reused the risibilities OF the audi
/ ence. This was the night of the third
I production.
A Most Pathetic Figure.
From 1883. when she became the wife of
/ Napoleon III until she fed from Paris.
/ in 1871 Eugenie, now one of the world 5
most pathetic figures. exercised an i'm
I portant influence on French history. The
first time that she ruled France as re-
gent was in 1859 when her husband was
warning in Italy. Her influence on
woman's dress, first apparent in the sos
/ is strongly felt 10 this day, as the aver
/ age American husband could feelingly
testify.
/ 1t was in 1850 that Sir John Tenniel-
/ then plain John-joined the staff Of
Punch. There he remained until the be
ginning Of the present century. IN that
/ time he drew more than 1900 of its
/ famous weekly cartoons As Punch was
only nine years old when Tenniel went
with 1t, and as he was in charge of the
! cartoon department for nearly forty
years, il Is no exaggeTation TO say that
upon his work the reputation OF Punch
I largely rests. Sir John was thirty years
/ old when he began to draw fancifuI
/ initial letters for Punch. these letters
/ together with its weekly cartoon on some
national or international event OF deep
! Importance, giving it its fame above all
other features. Americans who were men
and women during the civil war will re-
call the cartoons that Tenniel drew
/ against the North These and his sym
| pathetic cartoons following Lincoln's as
sassination established his name on this
side of the Atlantic.
Ten years before Tenniers attachment
10 Punch Sir Joseph Hooker. since the
forties among the leading botanists of the
world, went to the antarctic with the IA
nous expedition of Sir James Ross. He
brought back thousands Of species cf
plants hitherto unknown TO the civilized
world, and the book he wrote about them
and other antarctic fora discovered by
various bOtanists established his scientific
reputation In 1880 he completed a three
years expedition TO the Himalayas, max
ing remarkable additions to the worlds s
botanical knowledge. Son of the famous
bOtanist who founded at Kew Gardens
England, the most complete botanical
museum in the world, the family devotion
to botany reaches back a hundred years.
Sir Joseph Is Ninety.
Sir Joseph Hooker is ninety: Lord Lis
ter, father of antiseptic surgery and revo-
lutionizer Of modern surgery, is ten years
younger. Becoming assistant surgeon at
the Edinburgh Royal Inarmary in 1856
Lister insisted on absolute cleanliness
and the use Of deodorant solutions in the
surgical wards, for at that early date he
had arrived at the conclusion that the
dread wound diseases following opera
| tions, which made every one look with
horror on a surgeon, was caused in some
way by the atmosphere Thus he took
/ the first step toward antiseptic surgery
before the SOS.
In 1853. when Pasteur published his dis
covery that fermentation and putrefaction
are caused By bacteria, Lister at once re-
allied that the so-called wound diseases
were caused by bacteria. He thsreupoa