PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11843, 21 December 1901, Page 6 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

-.v.:,. -w.. ;■ ■ ; Dr Lemfriere, son of the Rev. John Lem. priere, well known as the -author of. the Classical Dictionary; is : dead. • • * 1 • t • • : >■; Mr. Henry S. Smith, consulting. surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, whose ■ death' is an- - nounced, was the . last of the ; original Fel- 5 lows of the Royal College of Surgeons... r" Edward Beaupre, an B£ft Canadian giant i* : looking; for" a 7ft bride in order that he can win a prize left by a French nobleman to be given to the finest pair of giants married each year in France.' 1 • , .'" ; The Archbishop of York 'has just com. : pleted his seventy-fifth year, but still carries on all the work of his position and still reads daily a fixed portion of. Hindustani which language he learned 1 when a soldier . in India. ,• . . . . .

"If I had not been brought up a dean " says Dr. Hole, of Rochester, " there are three other vocations I should have liked to have followed: Master of a pack of hounds, head gardener in a large nursery, or a bookseller I think the. last -is , the best.. office of the three." . .■ v . ■- - ' s-.

, Dr. Nansen has a liking for bright colours That is why his ship, the Frani,' was painted green, grey, scarlet, and white, picked out - with gold. The explorer is a clever artist and a lover of music—of his 'wife's singing especially he does not care for so-called "artistic" furniture; The table at ' which l he does all his work when at home at hisplace at Lysaker, six miles from Christiauia is merely a huge kitchen table.

Death has removed a familiar figure from, the classic links of St. Andrew's in the person of "Daw" Anderson, as he was known by frequenters of the green. He had reached the age of 82, and was the father of James Anderson. He was thrice world's champion, and well , known in golfing circles half a century ago.] He acted as caddie to the late Allan Robertson and the veteran Tom Moms in their principal matches. In his younger days " Daw" was a weaver, and afterwards a golf-ball maker. • »

Lord Dalmenv, Lord Rosebery's eldest son, has, like his father, a sense 'of humour, though in other respects he is singularly unlike his distinguished father. ; Big, - strong, and athletic, he is fond of outdoor.life,and field sports, is a first-class • racquet player, and much interested in racing. 'It was Lord Dalmeny who, when Lord . Rosebery was to address the boys at Eton on the "Fourth of June," begged his father not to allude to Wellington and " the playing-fickls of : Eton," a hackneyed quotation which the tpoor Etonians suffer from at very frequent intervals.

Dr. George Frederick Wright, ,of Oberlin College, has lately returned from, a Journey - round the world,"in the course of which he made extensive geological investigations in Asia to see if he could get any new light on the subject of Noah's flood. The Bible sfory of the flood which destroyed nearly all the •. human race has been a subject of study with' him for twenty-five: years. .

; As a- boy at school Colonel Roosevelt was not great at reciting. Once he had to recite a piece beginning : — . -

At midnight in his guarded tent , • - The Turk lay, dreaming of'the hour :. . When Greece,. her knees in snppliancc bent, Should tremble at his power. " Teddy" got as far as " When Greecc, her knees," when lie came to a halt. ? Twice he repeated " Greece, her knees," and then he broke down. The old professor beamed on the future' President over his glasses and remarked, " Grease her knees once more,' Theodore; perhaps she'll go then." ,; >

. A young Danish journalist, Mr. Marius B. Schroder, is on. a journey round the world in performance of a wager on , the question whether a man, being penniless, can go round the world in-a year. r Mr. Schroder is a bachelor of twenty-seven. The wager is for £555. If successful he will receive £250 of that amount, while £250 will go to the ! funds of the Danish .Journalists' 'Institution and £55 to the Sailors' Widows Fund ,of Copenhagen, and the Copenhagen Poor-box. lii addition to his passport the traveller carries a sheaf of letters of recommendation from Danish Consuls, newspaper editors, and heads of public departments. -