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Show Lt'Ke Father. Like Sett. Hugh John MacDonald, the coming leader of the conservative party In Canada, Is . immensely popular, not only in his own province of Manitoba, but in the dominion generally. He la 60 years old and possesses many points of resemblance to his distinguished father, fa-ther, the late Sir John A. MacDonald, the greatest statesman as yet produced pro-duced by Canada. An index to th character of the younger Dacbon-ald Dacbon-ald is found in the nickname given him by the Indians In-dians of Manitoba "The Man Who Keeps His Word." His advent as a leader is recent. He had repre- " SMisD JDOINGSJ Gal-Veston'f Fa "Danger. The leading artic in the current number of the Natt hi Geographic Magazine is a disci.-.on of the Galveston Gal-veston catastrophe Mr. W. J. Mc-Gee, Mc-Gee, a former member of tho United States Geological Kurvey. What he says will not tend reassure the people peo-ple of Galveston their brave work of rebuilding the lty on its old site. Mr. McGee brings' scientific evidence to show that the i: 'and on which Galveston Gal-veston is located i fsradually sinking beneath the watei j;Of the gulf. All that region of the alf coast, like the New Jersey coas; is undergoing a subsidence more 4rked than that which has placed folland's cultivated fields thirty feet ,4ow tide level. The present rate of fast subsidence in Holland is abou',eTne foot in a century. cen-tury. That of tj f New Jersey coast is estimated at l'so feet in the same length of time. 3QIr. McGee says the geologic indicates go to show that the subsidence the gulf coast is nearly as rapid that in New Jersey and is certainly1' jot less than a foot In a century. 7 Goes i Quirmal. George Von t ". Meyer of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, the new American ambassador to Italy, is one of the wealthiest men in New England and lives in magnificent magni-ficent style on his fine estates near Hamilton in Essex county. He graduated grad-uated from Harvard in 1879 and has sented Winnipeg ia TT T . , H. J. MacDonald. parliament, and indeed in-deed had been a cabinet minister, but it was not until last year that he accepted ac-cepted the headship of the conservative conserva-tive party in his province. Wld areas of influence are now opening before this brilliant lawyer and statesman. states-man. It is believed that the mantle ol Sir Charles Tupper is about to fall upon him and that he will wear it with credit Yu-Keng, the Chinese minister to France, lives In a luxurious bouse neat the Arc de Triomphe. He has ti eled a great deal in this country and married mar-ried an American woman. He Is 60 years old now and has served his country coun-try since his youth. He fought with WW . vmm-M distinction under General Gordon in 1864, and, being descended from an old Manchu family, rose rapidly at court Colleges and "Bonds. Four-fifths of the productive funds of colleges are invested in bonds and mortgages. Only a few have made any Investments in stocks. Two of them, Columbia and Harvard, Har-vard, have considerable investments invest-ments In real estate, but of the latter's ten or more millions railroad bonds claim the largest share. Twenty colleges col-leges have an income-producing property prop-erty of at least $1,000,000. These are as follows: Harvard, $10,000,000; Yale, $5,000,000; Columbia, property producing a revenue of $425,000; Cornell, Cor-nell, $6,000,000; University of Chicago, $S,000,000; Johns Hopkins, $3,000,000; Northwestern university, $3,000,000; University of Pennsylvania, $2,500,000; Wesleyan of Middletown, Conn., $1,-i'D"usfr?-ss-r'V i 000.000: Boston bietocRrrv ; . ', , . I ,- -er VirRt Natl It is in-J'1,m perfectly hororaole. ia b! "" srafc ' 'D' actions ard tinar-cially at |
