Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 506, 25 Ianuali 1902 — PERSONAL MENTION. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss Mary Mildred Le«*. a daughter f G-n Robert E L«-e. v:s:*.e-l the State S nate Richmond, Va. on the 18th. anl was Introduced, the S-nale taking a rec ss of five minutes a order that the members might per -onaiiy be presented. • • • Prince Lubomirski. one of the Russiana most popular in Paris, is about to ride, as the result of a weger from Spa to Nice on one hors-=. and brmg'the animal to the Riviera in perfect condition. This is a difficult task at this season, on account of the snow on the mountains of the Vosges. Jura and the Alps. • • • The eldest physician in England has just died at Monkeaton. North umberland. in the person of Dr. John Warren Edgar. He was born in Sep timber. 1803. and had. therefore, lived to the remarkable age of 98 years most of which were spent in practice in Kirby Stephen. Westmoreland. He took his degree in 1828 and continued in practice until a few years ago. • • • Prof. Mommsen, the great bistort an. was 84 years old on November 30th. It is more than fifty years since he was appointed professor of jurispntdence at Liepzig. and at the Universities of Zurich and Breslau he I held professorial chairs until 1858. when he went to Berlin as professor of ancient history. He was at one time a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Prussia. • * * The fact that Sir Walter Besant died with less than $30,000 to his credit has called attention to the fortunes other British writers left. Except Sir Walter Scott no novelist has ever made such sums as would be regarded by men in the money mar ket as wealth. Scott's income averag d for years $50,000 a year. Dickens left $400,000. Thackeray less. Bulwer Lytton. with a very keen eye for the main chance and a considerable tut encumbered estate. $400,000. • * • The last surviving veteran of the war of 1812 is Hiram Cronk of Northwestern. Oneida county. New York. He is 101 years old. His aunt mar ried Abram Depew. grandfather of Senator Chauncey Depew. • • • President Morton of the Stevens Institute of Technology of Hoboken announces that Andrew Carn c gie. who gave the fund with which the Carnegie laboratory of engineering building was erected, will probably make an endowment of $500,000 or $800,000 for the maintenance of that institution when it is formally dedij rated. February 6th. « » « Mrs. J. H. Fall, a stepdaughter of President James K. Polk, has sold her stepfather's private papers to the Chicago Historical society. ccllection includes his diaries in his own handwriting, covering a period of twenty-one of the most important years in American history. • • • Jan Kubelik, the ycung violinist, ho is creating such a furore in Miis country by his qlaying. brought with him four violins, three made hv the most celebrated makers of the world, and one made by his fa ther. when he was a boy, because he could not afford to purchase him cne. * • • M. Jean de Reszke has been talking to a Paris journalist concerning Wagnerian opera, and more especial ly, of course, about his forthcoming personation of the younger Siegfried in French. At one time the great tenor would have Wagnerian opera lung in no other tongue than German, but he has apparently altered his mind. • * • Gen Shattuc of Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Labor of the House of Representa lives, has long been proud of his taste in fancy waistcoats, solitaire diamonds and flaring cravats, all of which adorn his expansive front.

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