People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 28

People We Hear About

The proprietor of the Melbourne ' Age ' (Mr. David Sy<me) will become an octogenarian in a few weeks, but he still retains control of his paper. The Republic of Chile is preparing to erect a monu- . ment to Bernard O'Higgins, the Liberator of that country. ihe committee propose ( to erect the monument on" the site of the battlefield of Maipu. The German Emperor rarely prepares a speech, and never uses notes when delivering an address" in public. - This has been his practice for years, no matter what the su.bject'-'has been on which he had to express his views. Lord Sligo has three daughters whose names are Eileen, Moya, and Doreen. He is heir presumptive un-. . der .the special remainder to the earldom of Clanricarde,'which was created in 1880, and of which so much has been heard recently on account o£ the present Lord Clanricarde's tyranny to his tenants. Viscount I.kerrin, to whose lot it has fallen, in hils > humble capacity as an inspector of Irish dairy produce in England, to disguise himself as a -laborer and purchase samples of butter in a Wigari' shop, is the son and ' heir of the Earl of Carrick. He was formerly an inspector under Che Agricultural and Technical Board of Ireland. One of the ancestors of Hon. Edward Blake, M.P., was William Hume, of NHumewood, County Wicklow, Ireland, a member of the Irish Parliament, who lost his life in a fight in the Wicklow Mountains in 1798, while a great-grandfather lost his life when at the head of a division of the Irish Insurrectionary Forces, and in , the very hour of victory over -the English troops. As a young man, while crossing over to Dublin, Lord Rosebery lost his favorite dog, ' Mutton,' overboard. " ' Stop, captain ! Stop the steamer ! ' shouted his lords-hip in a state of great excitement. ' Can't • be done ; if it was a man, why, then—^ • ' 'All right,' said Rosebtery, not waiting for the captain to finish, ' that can easily be managed,' straightway leaping overboard. The steamer's engines were promptly reversed, a"boat lowered, and the peer and his dog taken up, none the worse for their adventure. The Rev. Lord Aruhdell of Wardour, the Catholic . Rector of Bournemouth, and the thirteenth holder of an ancient peerage, who passed away the other day (says the ' Freeman's Journal '), was not 'the first Catholic priest since the Reformation who has been a Lord and Peer of the Realm in England. The ~late Right Rev. Mgr. Petre, one of the Domestic , Chaplains to the Pope, succeeded on the death of his brother in the nineties of the last century to the Petre Peerage, one 1 of the oldest in England. Neither Lord Arundell nor Lord Petre ever took the oaths and their seats in the House of Lords. A romantic story is told concerning Lord Kelvin's marriage. When the famous scientist was on his schooner yacht ' Lalla Rookh ' in West Indian waters, he got up a S5 r stem of simplifying the method of. signals at sea. He asked Miss Crum, whom he greatly admired, a^id who was the daughter of his h'ost b if she understood his code. She said she did. 'If I sent you a signal,' he asked, ' from my yacht, do you think you could read it and could answer ? ' Well," I -would try,' she xesponded. The signal was sent, /and she did succeed in making it out and in transmitting the reply. The question was, ' Will you marry me ? ' and the answer was *,Yes.' , Mark Twain left England for the United States on July 13, and gave a Centra-! News correspondent a farewell message which is characteristic : ' I have led,'' he said, ' a gay and energetic life here for weeks, have felt no fatigue, •and have had but -little desire to quiet down. I am younger, now by seven years than I was, and if I could stay another month I could make it fourteen. This has been .the " most enjoyable holiday I have ever had, and lam sorry thai; the end. of it has come. I have met a hundred old friends, and I have ma.de a hundred new ones. It is a good kind of riches to have. , There is none better, I think. For two years I have been planning) my funeral, but I have 'changed my mind now, and haye 1 T postponed it.'