Show PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE Dr Wright author of Man and the Glacial Period says that man has not been on earth more than 8000 years Captain Wiggin an English expert declares that the transSiberian railway between St Petersburg and Vladivo stock 7000 miles long will bo the most marvelous railway system in tho world The Prince of Wales is said to bo a rather Impatient and testy man when In the hands of a tailor or a barber The royal road to a new suit of clothes or a welltrimmed beard is made as pleasant as possible but Albert Edward has grown remarkably restless of late and is not as patient as he used to be in the hands of those who aro in charge of his outward appearance Dr Urlburu the acting president of the Argentine republic is about 60 years of age He was elected a National deputy dep-uty and becam president of the chamber cham-ber In 1SG5 he was a minister in the cabinet of D Marcos Paz during General Gen-eral Mitres administration afterward he was Argentine minister successively In Bolivia Peru and Chile and in 1592 he was elected vicepresident of the republic re-public James Voorhees son of Senator Voor hees of Indiana who has done some creditable work as a sculptor has been commissioned by the committee on the library of Congress to execute a bust of Colonel Richard M Johnston of Ken tucky who was vicepresident of the United States from 1837 to 1841 and is popularly supposed to have killed the famous Tecumseh at the battle of Tip pecanoe Bismarck carps naught for show His unpretentious lib so at Frledrichsruhe the estate of 1SO000 acres given him by the king for > building an empire was once a hotel and while the prince has added to the structure he has not removed re-moved all the numbers from the doors of its rooms The prince gets much of his income from the mighty forest on this noble estate which lies close to the railway station between Berlin and Hamburg in the Duchy of Lauenberg Almost like a song bays the Rev William Elliot Griffls has been the life of Haruko the Empress of Japan With health beauty sweet feminine attractiveness attrac-tiveness of Immemorial noble lineage beloved by her Jbrds and people awarded award-ed personal honors by her husband unknown un-known to former empresses sho has lived to see Japan made a new nation and the sunbanner borne victoriously into mighty China |