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"A GORGEDOS BANQUET.“

There was a remarkable gathering in New

York last month of multimillionaires at a gorgeous banqust given in honour of Mr. Elber Henry Gary, chairman of the United Steel Corporation. The company included 100 load ing stool umanfacturers from various parts of the country, no fewer than 34 of them being multimillionaires. One of the papers estimates the combined wealth of these 34 pintoorals sat 1,500,000,000 dollars (£300,000,000). No wonder Mr. Gary in his speech described the Trast business as conducive to the establishment of { great and lasting friendships.

THE ANCIENT HOUSE UT FRANCE. Commenting upon the jubilee of the Emperor of Austria, a Paris contemporary points out that there was a time when the House of Franse, the most muciout in Europe, furnished tho sovereigns in all that quarter of the world. It was the descendants of Hugh Capet which established the House of Portugal, and continued oven to Mariada, Gloria, and in Brazil, down to Don Pedro II, and in Navarre of Spain. The House of Anjou, a branch of the Capefionu Kings, has reigned at Naples, in Hungary, and in Poland, The House of Bourbon lus.given rulers to Spain, the Two Sicilies, and to Parma.

AN AIRSHIP KOP,

A representative motor car firm has opened in Broadway New York the first establishment in America for the sale of airships. The prices vary according to capacity, the minimum being £20,000, for which an airship can be bought which will carry eight persons, including the pilot and engineer. The garuuteed speed is thirty miles an hour." Airships can be delivered within three months after they are ordered. They are modelled on a new design resembling that of the Patrie. The firm anticipates a number of orders especially from aeronautic club. The cost of maintaining a steerable airship is estimated at £2000 yearly.

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that way, yn clambered through a window, my wife all the tinte holding the little girl tightly in hor Arins, As we passed the front of the wife, killing her instantly; but by a uirols the by means of mathematics which, the ordinary little girl was practically unhurt. Taking the golfer can hardly hope to understand, the reason child in my arms, I rushed towards the Muni for the better flying of the marked ball, while sipal-equars, where shout fifty other persons had in practice nobody has ever been able to make gathered. We all quickly decided to flee to smooth ball go satisfactorily since the days of gether to the open country, and during our mad the original unmarked gutty ball, the first rivals rash through the streets balconies, columns, and of the old fentherios When these smooth chimneys foll around and upon as in a moet gutties first sypoured, and until they had been terrifying manner Members of our fleeing fucked about with irons, it is recorded that party were struck down by falling wreckage, They whirred and faffed, and dooked nut shios, half a dozna at a time, and in ́s few minutes. the party was reduced to twelve, then ten, then five, and when at last we reached the open country only four of us remained the other forty-six having untoubtedly been killed. It was a most awful experience."

BISMARCK'S COURTSHIP.

The courtship of Bismarck has all the remanes connected with it that attaches to that of Warren Iastings, and nothing of the dis credit. Bismarck was a gay young Prussian officer who he met Julianna von Pattkumen. He wrote to her father a formal request for Jobanna's hand. The father did not exactly give consent, but replied granting the future Chancellor permission to pay an occasional visit. Bismarck hastened to Reinfeld. The whole family were in the drive awaiting the visitor's arrival, Johnana herself standing with her eyes fixed modestly on the ground. The awift, whirlwind decision that scored Bismarck his later political triumphs game now to the front, and he carried the situation by storm. Galloping up the drive, he leaped from his horso, ran forward and dung his arms around Johan, taking no heed of her scandalised parents, and covered her blushing face with kisses. After that there could be no talk of probation" or "waiting." The betrothal was at accepted fact.

GOLF IN 1968.

THE MOUNTAINEERING RECORD, Now that the Duke of the Abruzzi has an- nounced his intention of trying to break the high altitude record in the Himalayas, it is It is ass rate, possible to take a fairly com interesting, the Westminister Guzette enggests, prehensive survey of the year's golf by the to consider what the present record is. Probably middle of October, since after that golfers in it is hold by Messrs. Rabendon and Monard-Ans, their public capacity usually onjoy a rest. In two Norwegian climbers, who, in 1907, scended the present year, however, public golf has died the lower of the twin peaks of Kabra, nesrunnenally liard, and there has been some Darjeeling, reaching an elevation, as they com- particularly interesting professional play very puted, of about 23,900 fast. Mr. W. W. Grala, late in the year. in 1883, attempted the ascent of the higher penk (24,015 feet), but failed to get quite to the top, and had no instruments with him with which to determine the exact height reached. In the Kumaon range a height of 23,406 feet has been uttained by Dr. Tom Longatuit.

GENEROVE GIFT BY A MILLIONAIRE.

A munificent gift for the relief of the 20,000 men who are unemployed in Liverpool and their families has been made by Sir Peter Carlaw Walker, one of the principals of the firm of Walker and Sons, brewers. He las placed a sum not to exceed £200,000 at the disposal of the Food and Betterment Association, an organisation that has been working among the poor of the city for twelve years, for the purpose of supplying meals and clothing to the poor. Sir Peter is the eldest son of this late Bir Andrew Walker, who died leaving's fortune of three millions sterling, and bequeathed the Walker Art Gallery to the city. He has travelled much in America hins, and India, and was once missing in Central Africa for three months.

NOBLEMEN WHO HAVE TURNED MONES. Prince Lowenstein-Wertheim Rochefort, the German uable who, at seventy-three, has renounced the world to become a novice in the Dominican Order and has just boon ordained priest, is one of many men of princely and noble rank who hare become, monks, Among the monks of the famous Abher of Benzon, at Beckan, in Germany, are (or were not long ago Frince Edward of Schonburg Hartenstein and Prince Philip of Helionlohe, who but a few years ago were among the brightest ornaments of the Cones of Berlin. Father Bebastinn was known to the world as Baron von Oer, lashing army ofloor, and Father Nicholas is Baron von Salis-Soglio. The abbey porter is one of the greatest nobles of the Grand Duchy of Baden, Baron von Drais.

.FEATS OF MEMORY.

The

gentleman who, according to the Manchester papers can recite from memory the whole of Milton's poems has had many formidable, rivals in the past, if we are to believe the amazing powers of memory credited to them. "Macaulay," said James Stephen to Greville, can repeat all Demosthenes by beart, and all Milton, as well as a great part of the Bible. Joseph Scaliger, the famous scholar, is said to haro committed the whole of Homer to memory in three weeks; and the late W. E. Gladstone could reel off at & moment's notice the whole of his own and Lord Derby's translations of the first book of Iliad. Lesberitz and Euler could recite every word of the Aeneid, and Person could not only complate almost any quotation from a Greek author, but could recite the whole

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THE KING AND MR. CARNEGIE.

The play of Tom Ball and Robson, in the Championship and the News of the World Tournamcat respectively, had by October made 1908 a year noteworthy for the advance of the youngest generation; and that feature has since been emphasized by the flao win of Daneat and Mayo over Ray and Tom Vardon and their subsequent and more ambitious challenge, which has been taken up by Braid and Taylor. That the younger pair will win that match does not seem in the least likely, but they should inake a very good ight of it; and it is clear that several golfers, who were born about 24 years ago, are soon going to make a very bold bid for

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CONTINENTAL ARTISTES, ordinary ball-as not to misbehavent all, and so no very alarming revolution in the matter of balls will probably have been offected when the obituary of 1909 comes to be written.

Bo much for the more frivolous question of the hour. That which merits far more.. seitate discussions is that of the championship courses, and the adoption or rejection by the represent- stive clats of the recent recommendations of their delegates, Tho suggested abolition of the championship rots was at first hailed, with a good deal of pleasure; but now that the world lias had time to think about it there seems golfing to have been a considerabla revulsion of feeling, mostly due to dark hunts of possible wire. pulling. The fact cannot be blinked në that golf is becoming with more and more clubs a commercial undertaking; and to sack clalis, of course, the prestige attaching to championship course must bring advantages, which can be reckoned in pounds, shillings, and pence. It is therefore, probable that a good deal of indirect influence will be brought to bear apon any body to whom the selection of chau- pionship courses is delegated. Granted then that the scheme is princ facía a good one, are those rarions fears expressed suficiently real to justify its condemnation-fears that tho championship, leaving its preamt rota of five courses, which belong at any rate to clubs above reproach, should occasionally get into the hands of those who would use it for indirect purposes of their own? We are inclined to think that, were the so-called representative

clubs with whom kos the decision traly representative, this foor of wire-pulling need not be takon too seriously. Goft has, however, ulergate ex fraordinary changes since the institution of the Amateur Championship and soveral of the. "representative clubs could not by any stretch of haagination be described as of sufficient standing to justify their position. With a revised list of representative chihs, golfers in general would have far greater contienes in the judicious and impartial selection of championship courses. Meanwhile the matter remains in abeyance until the clubs decision is made known: it is by no means unlikely that they will revers the decision of the delegatos. a course which, though pleasing to the conservative-minded, will hardly prove a wholly satisfactory solution of a difficult question.The Times.

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The professionals of to-day might zingst be classed in three generations. There are, first of all, those who were born in 1869, 1870, and 1871 those great vintage years of golf-who have been for a long while, and are still, at the top of

THE YUNNAN RAILWAY. the tree. Board. Taylor, Vardon, and Herd, who is a bit to the oldest of the four. To begin no The Foreign Affairs Committee, telegraphs earlier than 1862 is, perhaps, to do scant justice the correspondent of The Times in Paris on to one or two qplondid veterans, Andrew December 25, has now presented ite report upon Kickoldy, Willie Fernie, and

Ben the Bill authorizing the Government of French Sayers, who has been playing y well; Indo-Chins to raise a loan of £2,120,000 in order but they are perhaps, hardly numerous enough to meet the expenditure which has been charged to form a generation so that the blasification to the Budget of that Dependency in connexion DA may be allowed to stand. The second genera of the Younan Ituilway. The loan is to be tion consists of those who are about 30, or a guaranteed by the French Government. few years the wrong side of 30, such as reporter of the committee, M. Deloncle, Depaty Massy, Ray, Sharlock, the Toogoods and the for Cockin China, reviews the financial and Gaudius, Ernest Gray, and many more. Of other vicissitudes of the enterprise since the those, Masey has of course won the Champion-concession for building the railway was granted ship, and has shown by his play that if he is by Chinu ten years ago, und states that in oon80- not quite so consistent as the Triumvirate"-- quenes of various alzeations in the plans the to use a compondious, if rather objectionable, initial cast of the work will amount to expression-he is quite worthy to rank in the 96,620,000, as compared with the original highest possible class. The others, although truly estimate of £3,840,000. Of this increase excellent players, have neror quite sueseeded in in the estimated cost a sum of £2,060,000 accomplishing the big things. They have, he is to be borne by the colony and the re- doubt, beep unlucky in having a kind of quite mainder by the company to which the con exceptional golfers to compete against. who in cession has been assigned. The hope is expressed early days had an advantage in being a few that the work of construction will be superin years older and now show no signs of suffering tanded with greater care in the future than has any compensating disadvantage from the sp- been the case in the past, in order that the proach of their fortieth years. Apart from recurrence of costly errors may be avoidet this, however, this middle generation, with the For the rest it is stated that so far the mos exoption of Massy, who has genins written difficult section of the line, the track from plainly in his every stroke, seem to have lacked Looks to Mangtze in the valley of the Nam-ti, the divine spark; they have been, and are, very has practically been completed. The construe. talented golfers, and no more.

tors have to reach Mengtze by next April or Genius, if the word be not out of place in this May, and with the opening of this section it regard, seems to have skipped a generation; for will become possible to conduct traffic over when we come to our third division there are considerable portion of the lins. It is calesisted several players who have all the makings of that the line will have been laid as far as champions. The yaara 1833, 1884, and 1885 Yuanamees by 1910. In view of the results uld make another set of great vintage years. which have so für been obtained on the section The four young players, born in these years, which is already opent expectations that not who bulk bryst i public eye are Duncan, expresses the confident expectation

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accurate players Ball and Mayo. It is impossi- of French Indo hina. Dear Mr. arnegie. I have for some time ble to predict how long so great a golfer and se past been quxlous to express to you my sense physically strong a man as Braid may retain of your generosity for the great public object his best game, so that those four young men which you have presented to this country, may remsin merely expectant heirs and be kept the land of your bith. Boarcely less admirable a long time out of their kingdom; but the time sad taken the great ang should come when they will be fighting ont an thought you have taken in guarding open championship between them. Of the four. against their misuse. I am anxious to tell you Mayo is in some ways the most interesting: he how wormly recognise your most generous has, in trath, the infinite

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of the country where there was not much good Bolove me, dear Mr. arnegie, sincerely golf to be seen or copied, ha hait till quite As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF yours. EDWARD B. &I."

recently, but few educational advantages and has This is not the first of the kind that an had to build up his game, as one may say, "out English Borereign has addressed to an Ameri- of his head. The result is a still slightly can philanthropists. In recognition of his laboured and artificial style, which, however, has great work in London. Queen Victoris offered infinitely more sting and dash in it than it had Mr. Peabody the Grand Cross of the Bath, or A year aro. After his play in the Nees of the abaronetoy. When he respectfully declined World both, her Majesty was moved to inquire what thord Tournament, it was said in The Times one would like to see his game was it that he would accept from her. And ha

more severely tested by a seaside course on & told her it was this: "Aletter from the Queen windy day. His play at Deal and Prince's was of England which I may carry across the good enough to answer any implied criticism: Atlantic, and deponit as a memorial of one of and it is highly improbable that his power of her most faithful sons. For the American improvement la yet exhaustel. Of the four, Peabody came of the Paybours of St. Allsus. Mayo's steady and methodical way of playing The Queen wrote him a latter. In it she murks lim as a most likely winner in score play acknowledged "the more than princely benevo- in match play-it is much to be hoped that the lence, and with the letter she sent him, as the present crop of challenges will for the fatars be King has done to Mr. arnegio, a portrait. Both the rule rather than the exception Robson are deposited in the Peabody Institute at Borth and Danean are, perhaps, by dint of their groster, Danvers, Nos.

power, though lesser accuracy, likely to shine.

Apart from the performances of distinguished players, the

end of the year finds, golfers gone- Messina, who arrived at Palermo in an injured ane perhaps with an amused smile, the other in Mr. A. J. Ogston, the British Vice-Copan at rally in the midst of discussing two questions condition accompanied by his little daughter, serious careat. The question which is not, at told a heartrending story of the manuer present, taken too seriously is that of the pro- in which his wife was killed in the appalling catastrophe, and of the miraculous that there is no reason why smooth, or, at any posed smoother balls. It has been suggested escape of himself and his little daughter. He rate, smoother, balle should not fly as well said: At the first shook I was thrown oon- and for better than the present-day ball pletely out of bed. My wife at ones rushed to the oot where our little daughter lay asleep, and, snatching her in her arms, we descended to the door of our house, but found it entirely blocked up with wreckage. Finding escapa impossible

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