The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-18
A FEW FROM OVER SEAS.

Sidney Kidman, the Australian cattle
king, has just arrived in London on ms
first visit to England. He probably
owns o British territory than any
other man. When IA he was earning
$3.50 a week; today he owns or is IN
terested in 40, 216 square miles OF o
try. Beginning life as a teamster, ne
possesses 100, 900 head of cattle and
10. 900 horses. He has thirty-two cattle
ranches, and at his home In Kapunda,
about fifty miles from Adelaide, take
place the largest horse sales In the
world. At one time Mr.. Kidman owned
a piece of ground where the Broken Hill
Mine now is. He sold It for $3.50. gil
months afterward it vas resold for
50, $50, 900.
The old Emperor of Austria pays his
cook, Perski, $1o.0 900 a year salary. This
same Perski was once the Book OF
Count Rheingaum. and many years ago,
when the Emperor of Austria was din
ing with the Count, he was struck with
the way a certain boar's head was
cooked and desired that the chef should
be complimented. Two days afterward
a huge packing ease arrived at o
brun with Count Rheingaum's compli-
ments. On being opened h case was
found to contain Perski. a bit breath
less, but otherwise all right. The EN-
peror laughed at the Joke. accepted the
gift n Perski has been the royal chef
ever since.
Mile. Genee, the ballerina. says of
dancing: ITO dance well n must love
to dance. Gloomy dancers don't, 1 am
sure, dance for the owe of 1t. They
make me think of q French prince who
waltzed at a state ball thrice running
with a pretty matron. Though he
! danced execrably, the matron was fiat
tered and when the prince claimed a
fourth waltz she smiled and said:
Thank you, sir, for this marked COM
pliment.' I don't intend 1t as q COM
pliment,' the prince answered. She bit
her lip. Then she said, you must be
very fond of dancing I detest dane
ing he said. May 1 ask, prince pur-
sued the lady, why you dancer Mad
am he answered, stiff1y, If you must
know, I dance to perspire.'"
Sir William MacGregor, Governor Of
Newfoundland, thirty a ago, while
, holding the post of medical officer In
Fiji. performed q remarkable feat OF
heroism. A shipful of Indian coolies
had been wrecked about twelve hours
steaming from the capital, and Dr.. Mac
Gregor-a man of vast physical strength
L1.laI kha rotaf naFfV clam
bered along a broken mast which gave
access to the vessel and returned agar
and again with a man or on hi
back, and. sometimes a child gripped D!
It's clothes in his teeth. His creates
feat, however, was the rescue OF
woman who had fallen onto a reef be
low, and who. having got at the spirits
was mad with drink. Two men wh'
tried to save her were swept out to sea
but young MacGregor, lowering himsel
down a rope, seized h knot OF tn
woman's hair in his teeth and dragge'
her up to life again.
Although King Edward is the mos
democratic of monarchs, his ma1est'
always insists that his ministers mus
have the necessary court dress befor
they are allowed into his presence. ]
will be remembered that when the Righ
Hon. John Burns was given a seat l
the Cabinet two years ago he p%etitione
the King to dispense with court dres
In his case. His majesty, however, wa
obdurate, and, In spite of his high posi-
ton, the president of the Local Govern
ment Board had to conform to cour
regulations before he had an audienc
with the sovereign.