WHO'S WHO ?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13393, 23 January 1907, Page 9

WHO'S WHO ?

M.wrtrs .Jokai. the Hungarian novelist, has produced over 200 volumes of romances, besides short stories, and several plays. Tie has edited two newspapers, as well as taken an active pari in politic;-. In addition, he is a gymnast, fencer, and horticulturist. IK can cat ve in ivory, and pain'..

laird ('in /oil. at school, was a trouble and a puzzle to his masters. He never seemed to do any work, and yet he always seemed prepared for any emergency in class. He played innumerable pranks, but lie was too clever to give the masters an opportunity of scoring off him. * Sir Frederick Lugard, who has resigned his appointment as High Commissioner for Northern Nigeria, has seen a great deal of active service. He was in the Afghan war, the Soudan campaign of 188;). and in the Burma, Field Force in 1886-1. Sir Frederick was engaged for a long time in lighting the Arab slavers in Xyassalaud. and was scveiely wounded. Count Tolstoi was asked once by a young mother for advice about the training of her son. "Almost the whole of education," ho replied, "consists in the example of our life, which the child always imitates; the principal virtue of our life is truthfulness. I advise you. therefore, to tell your child the whole truth as you understand it yourself. For the child nothing hut good can come out of t his.

As a boy Mail Roberts suffered .so much from weakness that if- seemed the height of absurdity for him to contemplate a career in the army. His heart Mas believed to be affected, and his general health was such that lie was unable to join in the amusements of his schoolfellows. An abundance of high spirits, however, carried him through, and refusing to regard himself as what lie then was-—practically a.n invalid —he triumphed over his ailments and became, soon after he first donned his uniform, as tough as any man in the army.

The King of Spain's ring, which was recently recovered from the sea under remarkable circumstances, has brought to notice a very unlucky ring belonging to the Spanish Royal family. It had the 1 eputation, after a .series of unfortunate incidents, of b,:-iug fatal to the wearer. King Alfonso XII. presented it in tin to his wile, his sister, and his sister-in-law ; and they all died within a very short time. Then he won* it, himself, anil he also died soon after. The Queen Regent next piescnled the fatal ringan opal—to the statue of the \ iigin of Almudcna at Madrid; and very mioii the shrine of the Virgin guarded also the bridal dress of the present Queen, soiled by the blood of those mho perished at her coronation.