Show PROMINENT PEOPLE Gerrit Geyser the wellknown Dutch dwarf who rivals In size tho late General Tom Thumb has joined the Salvation Army of the Netherlands and may be seen promenading the streets of The Hague and Amsterdam in the Salvation Army uniform and presiding at crowded prayer meetings England is greatly Interested in the cricketing record of Frederick C Holland a youth of 19 who batted out 123 runs for Surrey in the recent match against Es sex It was a performance due more tog to-g lluine skill than to luck and added to I hid youth and staying powers it makes him a promising successor of the veteran Dr Grace Sophia M Palmer daughter of the late Earl ot Selborne exlord chancellor writes to the London Times to protest against the proposed memorial to her father He detested she says the modern system of testimonials for the mere performance of obvious duty and he characterized memorials as a new death tax Professor George F Comfort formerly dean of the college of fine arts of the University i Uni-versity ot Syracuse is about to write an evhaustivc treatise on the science of esthetics es-thetics It will embrace he says rootless root-less than four volumes of about 500 or 600 pages About fifty years ago Professor Yischer of Stuttgart wrote a treatise upon esthetics in five large volumes It remains re-mains yet the standard repertory of esthetic es-thetic science nUt it is too Hegelian to meet the views of thinkers of die present day Joseph Alexander of Newburg 1C Y was Hi years of age last January but is in full possession of all his faculties Last month In a hpurtshaptd design on a sheet of paper 2lxJ inches he drew a circle the size of a tencent piece With a pen he wrote the lords prayer within the circle and the whole of the 103d psalm in the heartshaped space When in Washington recently he wrote on a piece of paper the size of a postal card matter containing 12Wo letters besides the Lords prayer in each of the four corners Ths remarkable piece of work for such an old man has been placed in the Smithsonian institute |