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Show NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. Mrs. Pauline -Whitman is the most successful of Texas women ranchers. She owns 200,00 acres and raises 15,000 cattle annually. Ziem, the great French colorist, is 83 years of age, but is still able to read without glasses. He has been painting since he was seven. The crown prince of Germany 13 the only child of the Kaiser who is not left-handed. Left-handedness has been common in the Prussian rayol family for centuries. Prodigal as the Rothschilds were and are. they nearly all have and had -one trait in common. They will give thou-sounds thou-sounds without a moment's hesitation; they will not be fleeced of a penny after half an hour's discussion. A good story is told of the little Princess Prin-cess Mary of Wales. It is said that one of her aunts, wishing to test her knowledge knowl-edge when she was beginning to talk fluently, pointed to her feet and asked what she called them. "Ven. I has shoes on vey is feet," "was the answer. "Ven vey is bare vey is Trilbies." Amanda Clement, of Yankton, S. D., where she is a student, is a capable umpire at baseball games, and frequently fre-quently officiates in that capacity. Miss Clement is just 17 years old. She is captain of the champion basketball team of the Yankton college. At tennis she is admitted to be the champion player of South Dakota. The King of Spain declared in boyhood boy-hood that to be a monarch is a hard fate. When questioned why he explained: ex-plained: "Kings always have to learn to do nasty things, then to do them, and then are expected to look as though they liked doing them." His Majesty is fond of tennis and handles the racket rac-ket with no little skill. Though he has some musical talent, he cannot sing, having a poor voice. Princess Elizabeth of Belgium, wife of Prince Albert, heir apparent to the throne, is probably the most accomplished accom-plished and versatile of the continental princesses. She is the daughter of Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria, the famous fam-ous oculist. The princess, who has inherited in-herited her father's scientific tastes, has taken her degree of M. D., and could, if necessary, act as physician to her husband and children. Archbishop Ireland has accepted an appointhient as aiu-de-camp on the staff of Commander-in-chief James Tanner of the G. A. R., and will ride with him in his carriage in the Grand Army parade at Minneapolis, on August Au-gust 15. Kansas was the first state iii the union to adopt the constitutional prohibition, pro-hibition, and Senator Benson, the successor suc-cessor of Burton, was one of the three lawyers in the state senate in 1881 who framed the first prohibition law Kansas ever had. |