Sires And Sons

SIRES AND SONS.

Edward Giggey of Fort Fairfield, Me., celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday by planting potatoes. 

Congressman Babcock of Iowa has been prominent in politics since 1894. It has been said of him that "he manages politics as he manages one of his sawmills."

Mr. McKenzie, the new Victorian minister for lands, is totally blind. There are few men in Australia, however, who have a more complete grasp of public business or a more thorough knowledge of local and imperial politics. 

Warren Willard of Putney claims to hold the record in Vermont for the number of horses shod by one man. He is seventy years old, has been a blacksmith fifty-five years and has shod during that time more than 50,000 horses.

Cleveland's oldest inhabitant is George Robinson, aged 103. He has an original theory for living long. "I think I would not be alive today," he says, "If I had not lost my leg at the age of twenty-eight. It made me take care of myself."

Henry Romeike, who started the first press clipping bureau and by means of which his name became familiar in many countries, died recently of apoplexy in New York. Mr. Romeike was a member of the Press, the Lotos, and the Thirteen clubs. 

General De Wet has become the head of a large political party in the Orange River Colony. Every Boer returning from a British prison camp at once joined General De Wet's party, and it now comprises a majority of the white population in the colony.

General A. W. Greely having resigned the chairmanship of the committee of the National Geographic society which is to promote the international geographical congress in this country next year, Professor W. J. McGee has been appointed in his stead.

Count Bulow inhabits Prince Bismarck's palace in Berlin. His workroom is bright and cheerful, whereas that of his predecessor, a story below, was gloomy and forbidding. In one respect the present chancellor is as old fashioned as Bismarck-besides pencils he uses only quills to write with.