M. A. P. (Mostly About People.)

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2069, 21 December 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

M. A. P. (Mostly About People.)

Lilley, the Warwickshire wicketkeeper, is going to India, having been engaged bv IC. S. Ranjitsinliji to assist in coaching his cricket team.

William Glover, who sailed as chief engineer on the first screw steamer, tlie Sarah Sands, across the Atlantic from Liverpool in 1846, died recently at Chester, aged 84 years

An immense part of the French railway system was built by -Lord Brassey’s lather. Mr Brassey had in his employ at one time 70,0u0 men, while the cost of the undertakings which ho established was no less than £>o - 000,000.

. 'The death is announced of Angelo Sarto, the Pope’s brother. Ho was formerly in the Austrian army, but lor some years kept a small grocery shop at Asolo, near Mantua, and latterly has been employed in a subordinate capacity at tile post-office.

Lord Mount Stephen, of Canada (Lady Northcote is his adopted daughter) has given £36,00 to Abcrlour Orphan in Banffshire, yields, ing a minimum income ot £I,OOO anmiallv, and providing for the permanent endowment of 100 beds.

3 he jockey Miller, who lias recently come to the front in the racing world in New York, has been engaged to ride at Caliifpriiian meetings lor a lee ol £6,000. This will mean that his earnings for the year will ho £IO,OOO. It is claimed that Miller is the best-paid jockey in the world.

That President Roosevelt intends to become a New York editor is the interesting rumor in Washington. It is said the President lias arranged to get control of the “New York Tribune,” and to assume its direction after lie leaves the "White House in 1909

Mark Twain lias been one' of the many visitors to the Lusitania at New York, and was profuiully impressed by the size of the ship and the sense of power conveyed by her appearance. “I shall have to tell Noali all about this when I meet him,” he observed.

Mr. Pierpont Morgan’s holiday camp in the Adirondacks was raided by police, who called Mr. Morgan’s attention to the fact that lie and his friends had been catching trout during the close season. 3’ho officers collected penalties amounting to £3O from the party.

61 me. Calve, who recently arrived at New York on board the Cimard linfer Pannonia, spent most of her spare time during the voyage in making rag dolls for the children in the steerage. Before the ship readied New York one of the children came aft to thank her for the gifts. Two of the dolls were raffled, and fetched £53. *■

An excellent story used to be told ill University circles about Ranjisinhji. It was said that- on one occasion, at the beginning of 'liis career, he had made a good score in an important match. The good news was duly reported to his father in his distant Indian state Tlie message that potentate returned was as follows:—“It is well; I have sacrificed a hundred sheep.”

The -Kaiser is a partisan of the simple life, and at the many official banquets at which he is obliged to -assist he never touches any of tie more elaborate dishes. His Majesty has a preference for the more homely meal of supper to dinner, and gem-rad.-contents hiptse!f with a simple ti : L of grilled cutlets, with huge tea.

Miss Vivian C'Uwu-es. the child violinist, playing at ike Blackpool Tower, had an interesting experience. After an orchestral rehearsal she went to the menagerie in the Tower with her violin,_ and was permitted by the keeper to p'.av to the caged lions and tigers. The animals listened in silence to the music, and when the violinist left they roared wildly.

Miss Marie Hall, the violinist, who was recently in Australia, is writing a hook, in which she will relate the amusing and touching incidents of the trip. At Ottawa she had an application from a “kuock-abont acrobat” who wanted to get into partnership with her, saying that he was sure audiences would appreciate it if lie put in a turn during the programme.

The -Bishop of St. Albans, while on a l-eeent visit to the United States went to call upon a gentlem in at Watertown, Connecticut. When the bishop knocked, the door was opened by the servant. Bridget Muhloon. r l he Bishop had a book under his arm, and. concluding that the visitor was a book-hawker, the girl bade him begone, and slammed the door in his lace. Luckily the host, had noticed the Bishop coming, and hid time to run out and explain the girl’s mistake'before he, disappeared.

After all. Mark Twain declined the invitation to be pilot of the steamboat which is to take President Roosevelt down the Mississippi nextmonth. He did not care for the long preliminary railway journey. Dr. Clemens has decided in future to avoid such railway trips, preferring, to travel by water. He journeys by rail to and from the New- York suburb of Toxedo, hut explains that he does so only because the railroad has. a large amount of watered stock. Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, has made an interesting admission. Referring to the unpleasant incidents which marked hir, stav in New York last year, ho said he' had often since keenly reproached himself for having taken Mine. Andreieva to America with him without having first- gone through the,marriage ceremony, The ostracism, however, to which they were subjected came as a genuine, surprise. Since his visit to America ho and Mine. Andreieva had been legally united in marriage. The Paris postal! authorities do not appear to have heard of Mine. Sarah Bernhardt. Recently M-. SSardou wrote a letter from his cotiH.trv seat in the Seine-et-Oise department to Mine. I Bernhardt, and addressed it Boulevard iPeriorOi. Paris, omitting the number- ! “I the house, as he could not ix-calE it. The letter was returned to him I by the postal department, as ttisy ’ had been unable to deliver- it. It ; appears -to hay-*- mode the. round of ovo.-\ reaching t ! h-.- hands of ,ho :.i-:>e-•vhv-nne. On the envelope soma official had wijttsiiAtWddt-e',? unkno-j