The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-04
Court Gossip of Interesting
EpentS on Two Continents

scendant In the eighth generation Of the
person to whom II was addressed.
scniller once received letter which II
took fve years to reach him. In ma the
French National Convention created the
famous poet and author of 9Th. Rob
oers, French citizen, as a tribute Of
/ admiration for the revolutionary ideas
expressed In that work. The clerk charged
with the dispatch Of this civic diploma
addressed the cover to "Citoyen Gille Z"
and Schiller did not receive Il until I7ss
On Its receipt he wrote, This document
mas come to me from the kingdom of the
dead. Danton and Claviere attested IL.
Inc covering letter is signed by Roland
All three have passed away" CAnd how
A remarkable man is Lord Joicey. the
millionaire coal owner. who was recently
presented with a portrait Of himself at
the Newcastle Chamber Of Commerce. to
celebrate his fifty years of commercial
career. To begin with. Lord Joicey is
the largest coal land owner in the world.
There are persons in Newcastle WIN re-
member when he started life on III.
quay in his uncles office, putting up the
shutters and going for letters.
Lord Joicey's father is said to have
been a workman In the pits in his young
days II was not so long however, be-
fore the future peers striking energy and
business capacity led to success and
fair fortune. and he was making money
rapidly when his uncle's death placed
MIN IN possession of enormous wealth
Some idea of the extent Of Lord
Joicey's resources may be gathered when
II Ii mentioned that some time ago his
firm took the lease of Lord Durhan's
pits for El,loo.ooo this great expenditure
being paid out of the profits of two
years. A further illustration of Lord
Joicey's vast interests is contained in a
remark which he made in a speech on
the occasion of the aforementioned pres
entation. Business life," he said, 'is
q good life. To preside over a concern
which spends E1-5oo.ooo a year in wages
and supports thousands of families is
thing to be proud off,
Lord Joicey is fond Of outdoor life,
plays golf, shoots. cycles, and. on &C.
CASTOR. plays lawn tennis He Is keenly
interested in agriculture, and on his
ELECTROMAGNETIC estate has instituted
an agricultural show for the tenants OF
his farms. It is on account OF his JoviaI
manner and merry laugh that Lord
Joicey Is known among his friends az
odd King Coal"
The accidental landing Of the German
airship Zeppelin upon French territory
easily might have led to war between
France and Germany. had it not beer
for the tacttul dealing with the sltua-
ton by the French. Great wars have
been fought upon less provocation thar
this
The immediate cause of the Indian
mutiny OF ISIS was supposed to have
been the Introduction into the Indian
army Of cartridges which had been
creased with a mixture of cows and
hogs fat. the handling OF which was
against the religion OF the Hindus and
Mohammedans.
Though discomfort had been shoulder
ing for long time between the mother
country and her American colonies. the
Immediate cause of the outbreak OF the
American war of independence was what
Is known as the Boston Tea Party"
when a number of young Americans,
disguised as Indians, threw a whole
cargo of tea from Britain into the sea
at Boston Harbor.
The blowing up of the American bat.
tleship Maine led to the Spanish-Amert-
can war. and the loss Of Cuba to Spain.
The Americans believed that the warshir
had been destroyed deliberately by the
Spaniards.
FIANEUR.