Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1902, Page 28

President Roosevelt’s Interesting Children Photographs Taken With Permission of the President by Frances B. Johnstone. of Washington, D. C.---Copyright, 1902 ETHEL. i QUENTIN. KERMIT. ARCHIE. Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted People HE Grand Duke Boris of Russia, who is on a tcur of the world and is expected at Washingtoa shortly, is 26 years old. He is a son of the Grand Duke Viadimir, ¥ brother of Alexander III of Fussia, and I therefore, a first cousin of the prezent czar. The young noble is accompanied by a suite of officers. He Is a colonel of in- fantry, s said to be of a studious and scientific turn of mind and is unmarried. i Sixty years after his death General Wil- liam Clark of the famous Lewls and Clark expedition is to have a monument erected over his grave. The monument is to be erected by Mrs. Mary Susan Glasgow Clark of New York City, widow of Jefferson Keurney Clark, for many years a promi- pent St. Louisan, who died in New Ycrk pbout two years ago. The money for the memorial was left in the will of Jefferson Kearney Clark, who was the youngest son of the great explorer. .._._\i._‘._. The recent knighting of Sir F. C. Bur nand serves to recall in the Outlook cf London a jest of the witty editor of Punch. Shortly after he became editor of that paper he was urged by his friends to take an appointment to a remunerative sinecure in Australia. It was not to his taste, however, for he answered promptly, “A B'ur'n 'and’s worth two in the Bush.” “‘Years had elapsed since I saw the houss with the seven gables supposed to be the one which inspired Hawthorne's immortal story, and being in its vicinity recently, I went to see it again,” says a writer in the Boston Herald. “But I wish 1 hadn't, for that venerable domicile has been touched with the canker of modern improvement. Blectric lights, a furnace and bathroom and kitchen bollers serve to render the old- time home of Salem’s watchmaker ‘com- tortable,” but an awful paradox in the opinion of the antiguarian, not to say ro- mancer. I wonder what Hawthorne would say to the changes there. If this is really the famous house, one wishes it might have been preserved as America’'s foremost prese writer described it in that classie, and as Miss Ingersoll left it when she de- parted this life.” The death has just taken place at Roches- ter, England, of George Thomas Crook, for- merly inspector of machinery in the royal navy. Mr, Crook, who was 72 years of age, was known in the service as “‘the man who sat on the safety valve, 7 his plucky gc- tion during the Egyptian war of 1882, He then, at the risk of his own life, adopted the heroic expedient indicated in order to raise sufficieat steam to lift ashore at Buez by means of & rickety crane two locomo- tives which were urgently required on the Egyptian rallway. When the English fi_oopl in South Africa were dally expecting the announcement of a peace settlement with the Boer leaders a clergyman telegraphed to Lord Kitchener from the Orange River colony: *“As I am the acting chaplain and conducting divine service in many camps tomorrow, may I ask if the hymn, ‘Peacs, Perfect Peace,’ would not be a most appropriate one wo out to be sung?’ Lord RKiichener wired back: ‘‘Please yourself; but I think ‘On- ward, Christian Soldier,’ quite as good." it A well-known and highly respected fire- works manufacturer died recently in the north of England and his wife ordered a very expensive tombstone to be erected in his memory. She was very much perturbed, for no epitaph submitted to her did she con- sider suitable. After a prolonged and dili- gent search she discovered one she thought to be appropriate on the tombstone of a prominent musician in a Manchester ceme- tery. Now on the memorial stone of this noted fireworks manufacturer it is stated #0 that he who runs may read that “He has gone to the one place where his works are excelled!" Lord Salisbury has been often accused of cyniciem. This is due to his many cutting In regard to a blll in Parlia- lish parish councils he said “If your desire is to interest the people I should rather recommend a parish circus.” “You cannot send your ironclads up Mount Ararat” was his objection to intervention at the time of the Armenlan atrocities One time he was talking with Sir Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the famous gun which bears bhis name, when the prince of Wales, now King Edward, approached (hem and asked what they were laughing at. “I was telling Sir Hiram that he had prevented more wen from dying of old age than any other man that ever lived,” sald Lord Salis- bury, Zgrimly No one looking at Lord Charles Beresford today would imagine that in 1860, when he first went to sea, he was a delicate lad aud was, in fact, put on b:ard the war ship Marlborough for his health. When he first eet foot on board he h-ard a sailor say “Poor little chap, he ain't long for ths world."” Lord “Charlic” has seen many lively times since then and is still sturdy and vigorous Two United States senators were talking over old times a few days ago when con- versation drifted to the late Senator Zack Chandler of Michigan. “‘S8enator Chandler was underestimated, I think,” said one “That is, he was a bigger and better man than most of his acquaintances gave him credit for being. One day 1 suggested to him that I should like to see him presicent ‘No, no,’ sald Zack, with emphasis ‘1 hope I shall never contract the presidential fever. It is sure death. Men recover from the smallpox, cholera and yellow fever, but they never get over the presi- dentlal fever.” Mr. Balfour is the fifth statesman since the union of Great having been chief secrctary of Ireland, has become prime minister, More than seventy years have elapsed since the last Irish sec- retary who subsequently became prime min Ister was appointed. In 1830 Lord Stanley subsequently known as the great earl of Derby, was appointed Irish secretary, an held that office till 1 The other prime minisicrs who were previously Irish secre taries are the duke of Wellington, who, a Sic Arthur Wellesley, was Irish secre'ary from frow: 1807 till 1809; Sir Robort Peel who filled that cfMce from 1812 to 1818, an Willilam Lamb (Lora felbourne), who wa Irish secretary from 1827 to 1998, During the Omaha exposition, relstes :: Portland Oregonian, Senatcr Chaunce Depew and 8. R. Callaway, president of tt American Locomotive company, were stro Ing about the Midway, taking in the sight when they were invited into a large hall t see the “greatest performance on eart! The hall filled up rapidly, and after a ws of ten or fifteen minutes the senator sald Mr. Callaway: ‘““This must be a good sh S0 many people are crowding into to ¢ It." After some further waiting, dur which the hall was jammed full, the J. Sterling Morton walked down the a and, stopping to shake hands with th: se tor and Mr. Callaway, said: “What thunder are you fellows doing here? T I8 a fakir outside calling out, ‘Come in See the great and only Chauncey M. Dej Only 10 cents to see the great and itain and Ircland who, Chaunce :