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Sires And Sons

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
May
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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SIRES AND SONS.

Sir George Power, one of the newest of English baronets, was formerly on the stage and was in the original cast of the earlier Sullivan operas.

King Edward's chef is one M. Manager, from southern France. He gets $10,000 a year and goes to Buckingham form his private residence in a hansom.

The council of the British Association For the Advancement of Science has unanimously nominated Arthur James Balfour to the office of president for the meeting to be held in 1904.

Of the pallbearers at Abraham Lincoln's funeral, thirty-eight years ago, only two are still living – former Congressman Henry G. Worthington, now of Washington, and Andrew Coffruth of Pennsylvania.

The present mayor of St. Paul, Robert A. Smith, is just at the end of fifty years' residence in that city. He went there in 1853 as the private secretary of the territorial governor appointed by President Franklin Pierce.

"Pop" Anson, the erstwhile pet of the Chicago bleachers, was fifty-one years old the other day, and in discussing the matter with a reporter he observed that "the happiest age of man is between fifty and fifty-one."

Jules Claret, director of the Comedie Francaise of Paris and member of the academy, has accepted an invitation to visit this country in the spring of 1904 to lecture on French dramatic art and the national theaters in France under the auspices of the Federation of French Alliances.

Thomas Lawrence, a Pettis county (Mo.) farmer, was knocked twenty feet by a train a year ago and escaped injury. Last August he was struck by lighting and recovered. Five months ago he fell twenty feet from a barn roof and was not hurt. He stumbled over a two-month-old pup and in falling broke his neck.