PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11538, 24 November 1900, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

It is stated that the King of Gree<fc speaks twelve languages. /

Captain Lord Kensington, find Life Guards, who died at Bloemfontem on June 24, has left £711,218. /

The Duke of Fife, it may interest the inquisitive to know, keeps twelve suits going at the same time, and never wears the same clothes twice in the same week.

Mr. R. Latta, Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy in the University of St. Andrew's, has been appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophv m the University of Aberdeen, vacant by the resignation of Professor Sorley.

The Rev. John Sharp,! for over twenty years one of the two general secretaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society, has been appointed editorial superintendent in succession to the late Rev. J. Gordon Watt.

Sir Andrew Lusk has completed his ninetieth year. He was Lord Mayor of London twenty-seven years ago. He is a native of Scotland, and commenced commercial life in London as a dealer in ship's stores, in Fenchurch -street, but in a few years had an interest in numerous great city undertakings.

The Right Rev. Dr. James A. Smith, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunkeld, has been appointed bv the Pope Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh. Dr. Smith was ordained in 1866, and, after a long service in Blairs College, Aberdeen, as one of the theological professors he was appointed Bishop of Dunkeld in 1890.

The Rev. C. Sheldon, author of "In Hi's Steps," who recently condemned England for drunkenness, is seeking appointment as Chief of Police at Topeka, Kansas. His object is to conduct a fight for the enforcement of the prohibitory law against liquor selling, Topeka being considered the most intoxicated town in the Western States.

The Duchess of Montrose, who was a cousin of the deceased earl, will unveil the memorial window which the Marquis and Marchioness of Dufferin have erected in the parish church at Bangor to their eldest son, Lord Ava, who was killed during the siege of Ladysmith. The window contains a lifesize representation of the late earl as a Christian knight.

The Grenadier Guards is the only regiment in which the Prince of Wales really served as a soldier. It was in the first battalion of that most distinguished regiment that he served as a subaltern and learned his drill. He was stationed with them at the Curragh Camp. Kildare, in the year 1858, and made himself highly popular with all ranks of every .corps 'stationed in that salubrious camp.

Mr. Chamberlain's distaste for physical exercise is as marked as his passion for orchids. At no period in his life has he indulged in any form of sport, and walking is his special aversion. Practically the longest walk he takes when in London is from Prince's Gardens to his clubs in Pall Mall or St. James'-street. To his sedentary habits he adds a love of smoking strong cigars— conjunction which would be fatal to any man who did not possess the constitution of the Colonial Secretary.

There is a good story told of one of Li Hun? Chang's secretaries, who accompanied the Chinese potentate to England a year or two ago. He happened to be in Leeds, and went into a restaurant. One of the dishes set before him he enjoyed greatly, and took it to be a " bow-wow," served in English fashion. He was not well acquainted with the native language, but, pointing with his knife to the dish, he said to the waiter, "Bow-wow?" "No," said the attendant, gravely; " quack-quack!"

Lord Salisbury is one of the comparatively few members of either House who never make a note, no matter what may be the nature of the debate or how intricate the subject which has to be spoken upon. Everybody knows his remarkable imperturbability of manner, for it has almost grown into a proverb. Whenever be has made up his mind to speak it is quite easy to be aware of the fact. A life-lnna chronicler of Parliamentary annals declares that when the Prime Minister is listening to anyone to whose speech he intends to reply it is possible to see his knees moving up and down through the impulse oF the toes, a movement which is kept mi almost uninterruptedly, and which is really remarkable.