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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 6

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Lord Roberta doesn't smoke, touches wine but seldom, and rises at 5:30 every morning summer and winter — no matter how late he may have retired. Lord Sheffield is the proud possessor of a photograph of the Billington cnicketolub of Oxford, and among the tsam ii King Edward, then an Oxford under graduate. Princess Lousie of Coburg is said to have sold the manuscript of her " Memoirs " to a Brussels editor for 200,000 dols. and Leopold has ordered the police to find the editor and sieze the book. Baron de Forest is said to be contemplating the establishment of an empire in the Sahara desert, and carping critics declare that the British government will obtain a political advantage by the process. Lord Brassy offered to erect, at his own expense, a large number of wooden cottages on the English model for the sufferers by the recent Italian earthquake. The offer was accepted by the government. The duke of Argyll, King Edward's brother-in-law, has enlarged his literary scope by writing a book of nonsense verse in the form of a long ballad. His first work, " The United States After the War,"brought him to the notice of American readers. Sir William Maegregor, governor of Newfoundland, is one of the most remarkable men in the British colonial service, both phisically aud mentally, and is the only governor to wear the Albert medal, which is the civilian counterpart of the Victoria cross. The princess of Weid, who is a prominent figure in court circles at Berlin, and whose husband is iu the line of succession to the throne of Holland, buys all the ill-used horses that come to her notice and gives them the benefit of a stay in her-well appointed stables.