| Show S I I PiR3CNL MENTION S As private secretary to King Edward I VII Sir Francis Knollys will havu a great deal of hard work to do Ills predecessor I Sir Arthur Blgtru employed ten stenographers stenogra-phers to whom dictate u A Icttcra An Increasing tendency is 1 observable In i Clmuncey Depcw whenever he tnlkn about Abraham Lincoln to cmplmslzft I that Lincoln was a storyteller too It may be suspected 9torhtclcr duo to a i growing suspicion on Mr DepcwM part that he has never been tuken quite serl i emily enough by the American people I J Springfield 1 Republican I j o a a I Charles Oliver the Hallway Commie sloncr of Now South Vn1cs has returned I home after having spent n month In Eng land I and four months In this country got I ting new Ideas In regard to tho working of railways i 0 a I ExPresldcnl llnrrison wan renucjilcd to filpn a petition askIng Congress to upturn j prlato Or for a monument on Tippoca noo battlefield the scent of William Henry Hen-ry Harrisons victory In 1S1J Mr Harrison Har-rison declined to sign saying that though ho should be pleased at the successs oC such a movement ho uniformly declined to sltfii nIh petitions to Congress In this rasa besides ho foil that It would be IndelIcate In-delicate In him to lake such action on account ac-count of his ancestors prominence In the battle 1c Kansas newspapers do not agree as to why A Fred Fmislon u did not fare wol In HIV HUUIIL Ul IllV bIIIktt1i IMIU IB Ol IMC I opinion that ho hlnxUl overadvertised > nnd that the reaction has set In Another w An-other tulces this view If Fred Funston had spent the time when he was exploring explor-ing tho Arctic regions and Investigating the Death valley In forcing dried prunes down the throats of West Point Innocents I Inno-cents ho would bo rewarded with a commission com-mission as Brigadier In the regular army now a o a VicePresidentelect nnd Mrs RpOHCvelL with their chlLr < nwl ho the guests of I Commander and Mrs Cowlea In Wiflh Ington from Match 2nd to March Rib They will then go to their Oyster Bay homo and return about October to Washington Wash-ington where they will occupy tho houno o Bellamy Storer nt Rhode Island ave alto and Seventeenth street which Mr ROosevelt has leascd S 0 I Dr Arthur Louis Day former Instructor In-structor In physics at Yale returned to this country In October after spending three years In study and scientific research re-search In Germany This entire period I was passed at the Helchuonstalt in Char lotlcnburg at Ural us An assistant and later as one o the regular staff of this famous institution which Is maintained by the German Government Ills appointment ap-pointment there was tho more noteworthy In that he IP the first American to gain I thin honor He was Invited last full by tho head of the United States geological Purvey to take charge of I new laboratory labora-tory for the Investigation of physical questions at Washington D C and Is I at present In that city al work on the cqulp meat nnd lilting o this laboratory Tho Intention In I to work along lines In which Dr Day by his work In the Relchsnlntalt has become an authority especially tho measurement of high temperatures Upon Up-on this subject ho has published In collaboration col-laboration with others n number of papers pa-pers in scientific Journals hero and abroad S |