People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 4, 23 January 1902, Page 10

People

A despatch from Rome says it is expected there that the Czar will shoitly Msit the King and Queen ol Italy, in which case an interview will fie arranged between the I'ope and his Majesty. Mr. James Jeffrey Roche, editor of the ' Boston Pilot.' dined with his friend, President Roosevelt, the other da\ , Mgr Reggio, Archbishop of (Jenoa, died at Tuora on November 21, aged 8:i \ears lie had been a Bishop smcu 1877. The Empeior Francis Joseph of Austria is \ cry plain in his tastes and habits. At six o'clock in the morning he takes breakfast, consisting of sonic cold meat, collee, and Ii esh-made bi cad and cake. Between twel\e and one o'clock he takes his dejeuner, two dishes of meat ami some oidmary pastry. Dinner is ser\ed at six o'clock sharp All his meals ai c served m his library at his wilting desk. Not even a" tablecloth is spiead. 1 lis personal valet on duty receives the dishes in an antechamber on a large tiay, and puts the tray betoic the Empeior on his desk Vim-v olten the Empeior takes a spoonlul ol soup between two signatuies He is a very busy man With the meal the menu lor next day's dinner is sent up and laid belomj the lOnipei oi It contains two soups, patties, iish, two entices two iua.sts, two dcssei t.s, pasti \ , cheese, fiuit, clc , aim (he Emperot with a blue pciiciJ ciosses olt whatever he does not want. Jhe Kmpeior does not t.ue ninth for w me. He piefeis a glass o! beei . Nor does he mdulgo in expensive Havana cigars A plum home-made cigar, the so-called Virginia cigar long and thin, with a stiaw running tlnough it. is his favorite smoke. These cigai s cost only li\e kieuzer — that is, about twopence apiece. r J lie grand name of V ictoi la (says ' M A I' ) belongs In nulit to the dead and gone \ ictoi win eia. the late Queen basing hei sell acted as godmother to the children of many distinguished subiects For neail'v 40 .\eais the pietts name of Alexandia has, lor the same reason, inn a good second to that of Victoria. The fashionable names of 20 vcai's ago — sactcd to the tin ee-s olunie novel — include such well-wotu examples as rioience. Blanche. Ethel, Mabel, and Ada E,u hof the tluee kingdoms lias, ov iii ik)\s . its own national nomenclature 111 1 eland os\iis many beautiful names such as Clodagh, (.'hue, Doieen. Sheekih, Kathleen, Oeraldine and lei ne, which is I think, the ancient name for Ii eland Scotland has seveial special cognomens, rarely heard across the border Of these <v c Elspeth On/file. Jeanie, and lOuphemiu Wales is not without its individual names (Juladv.s is \ers Welsh, and so C wenfer' and Cwvnedd All the above-mentioned names aie home by well-known Societ.x women, Dish, Scotch, and Welsh Among otheis, JLadv Clodagh Anson. Lady Jei ne Tufton. Miss Clare O'Brien, Lady Grizelle Cochrane, Miss Elspeth and Miss Owenfer Williams. The new Major of Lvme Regis, England, is Mr. John Reginald Charles Talbot, J P , the eldest son of Mr John Reginald Francis (Jeorgo Talbot, J 1' . of Rhode Hill. Upl.xme, Hevon He was born on tlie'l.jtli November. I S(H , was educated at Oscoti College and for a tune was Dieiiienant of the Hrd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment lie man led on the 2nd Au-

gust, 1887 Maria Josephine, only daughter of the Due de Stacpoole. I he Talbots of Rhode Hill claim an ancient lineage, having directly descended from Talbot de Malahida (subsequently Earl and Baron) of Dublin. Sir Nicholas Roderick O' Conor who has just left Constantinople for London on leave of absence (says 'M A. P.'), shares with The O'Conor Don the honor of being spuing from Roderick, last Milesian monarch of Ireland, who concluded the famous Windsor Treat v with llenrv 11. in J175 The O'Conor Don and Sir Nicholas both trace their descent from Sir Hugh O'Connor of Balintubbcr, the undoubted representative of the Irish kings. Sir Nicholas succeeded his elder brother Patrick a quarter of a century ago as owner of Dundermott, the family estate m Roscommon. He married ten years later the eldest niece of the Duke of Norfolk, by whom he has three daughters Lady O'Conor is of too retiring a disposition to shine brilliantly in society, hut both she and Sir Nicholas are popular in Constantinople, both at the Yildiz X losk and among then countrymen at that curious capital