MEN OF RENOWN ABROAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3561, 17 August 1905, Page 3

MEN OF RENOWN ABROAD.

Justice ’Mathew, of London, who was recently made, one of the lord jus vets of appeal, js ,n nephew and of the famous Father J ” la Aew, tha great temperance advnca>. /' Mayor Des Planches, the new TtalSan ambassador, is the youngest ambassador in Washington, being but *9. He began his diploma tie, career 88 chief of the cabinet of the Italian ininieter of foreign affairs. Earl Russell, who has just been released from Ids incarceration In Holloway jail, England, has turned his

( experiences. there to practical account by delivering a largely-attend-ed lecture. on British prison life. He 'Said it \vas not so bad as might be supposed except that the. chiropodwere amateurs. ’■ Marcellin Berthlot, a distinguished 'French chemist, after discussing the merits and demerits of the systems of capital punishment now in. vogue, pronounces in favor of carbon dioxide, a gas used for the destruction of stray dogs, lb; says this is a quiat and painless death and one does not shock the sensibilities, j/ "Count Mettcrnich, who is likely to succeed Count von Hatzfeldt as German ambassador to London, is well known in English society. For some years the count was in Egypt, and there formed friendships with eon•iderable numbers of English families wintering on the Kile. Count Hotternieh is a handsome man, a line rider, a philosopher, a thinker and an untiring worker. He is a profound believer in the kaiser.