Show NOTES ABOUT MEN Senator Tlllman Is the only Senator who has recorded In his autobiographical sketch In the Congressional directory that he was 0 farmer beforo coming to tho Senate Tho police hav ordered Russian art dealers and booksellers to give a pledge in writing that henceforth they will not exhibit portraits of Count Tolstoi Al postal cards bearing his picturE have been confiscated confscft S Dr Heyman Mr Krugers physician enters an emphatic denial that the former President o tho Transvaal republic Is not In good health Tho physician says that Mr Kruger Is very well despite his advanced ad-vanced ago I l Edward VII decides to visit the Channel Islands a very likely to during the forthcoming cruise In British waters he will bo the first English King to sot foot In the old Norman fief of the crown since tho day of King John Gen Nelson Vial the solo survivor In Rhode Island of tho Mexican war Is reported re-ported to be < dying at the State Institution In Cranston whore ho ha been tho war den of the State prison and Jail for a long term of years a t Before ascending thc throne of Sweden King Oscar was n sailor and had eared several medals for saving life at the risk of his own His Majesty Is I a most accom pllshcd man being artist dramatist poet author and composer He has also dipped quite deeply Into Oriental lore chemistry and astronomy besdes being n successful business man He stands U feet 3 Inches In his stockings Plccolomlnl tho composer who died In poverty tho other cmpser London was onco in the French army and later tho organist of St Peters Rome He was grandnephew o Cardinal Plccolomlnl cousin to the prima donna of that name and a descendant of the famous Imperial commander In tho thirty years war He wrote about 400 pieces of music and his Snowflakes was sung by Mme Tltjcns beforo many large audiences and before ono ery small one bcloro Queen Victoria and her household |