Show TERSE UNSON UNSON UNS UNSON ON PERSONS George H. H Williams who the Republicans Republicans of Portland Ore have Just nomInated nominated nom nom- mated for for Mayor was was a generation ago a prominent figure in public life lICe He was a a. J Judge In Iowa five fifty years ago before the Republican party came into existence He was one of th the Presidential Presidential Presidential Pres Pres- Electors Electors whose votes votes made Pierce President of the United United- States States' In 1852 He was Chief Justice of Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon In 1853 when Oregon was further out of the world than are the remotest mining camps n Alaska at the present time and w e that that Territory had a smaller population ri than can now be found in the Northern Territory He assisted in framl framing g the Constitution of Oregon four forty-four y years ars ago He was wasa a Unit United d States Senator When President President President dent Roosevelt was a child of 7 years o of age The little Duke of Leinster now 15 15 years of age who Is Premier Duke Marquis and Earl of Ireland with a roll rent-roll of a year has been sent on a long sea voyage to Australia a and d back for his health His mother was one of the most beautiful women In Great Britain She died of consumption tion Uon on seven seve years ago Frank J atterson Patterson of Port Chester Cheste Ny N. N Y fell from the top of a flagpole on the top of a a. hotel at White Plains dropped off oft the tower down to the loof roof and caught himself at the eaves eaves sixty feet above the pavement His only hurt was wasa a bruised arm but he says he has had all the flagpole business he needs needs Senator Hoar received word the other day that a friend who had been supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have appendicitis was suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing not from the ailment but from acute Indigestion That is good news said the Senator Zenator I rejoice that the I trouble lies in the table of contents rather t than an In the appendix Among the peers who have Inherited barren titles is the young young- Earl of Seafield Seafield Seafield Sea- Sea field who at the age of ot 12 years succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- to an Earldom two and two Baronies without so much as a single singie acre of land to maintain His dignities M. M I. I who has returned to Paris having accomplished his m missIon mission mis mis- s sion of an industrial Inquiry In theU the U United States for the French government govern govern- ment has expressed great delight with his trip and Is deeply Impressed with the wonderful progress realized In America The Paris Academy of Medicine has given the Victor Hugo prize of 1000 francs for the best work on n medical topics to a woman woman Dr Melanie Melanie Me- Me lanie Lipinska of Warsaw for her book entitled History of Female Physicians from Ancle Ancient t Times to the Present Day Mr Ir James Doll the oldest English actor is 98 years of age He never appeared In London but spent his life In Devo Devonshire and at Exeter acted Launcelot Gobb Gobbo to Edmund Keans Kean's Shylock Mrs Patrick Campbell the actress says It took London ten years Chicago ten days and New eW York ten minutes to find her out |