People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 41, 12 October 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria' entered on his 7«th year cm August 17, and one of his sincerest as well as earliest congratulators was King Edward. Mr. Lewis,, of tihe Boer War Show at New York, writing to 1 a South African paper,- announces the fulfilment of his promise to provide adequately for General Cromje's old age. General Cronje only joined the War Show, he adds, because he Was ruined, ignored, and received no help from his countrymen. He will now, be a'blo to> spend the remainder of his days in comfort, without anxiety and without working for Ms living. The Parnell Biography will appear shortly, and the aarthioi-ess,, Mrs. Dickensom, a sistier of the late Irish leader, is revising the proofs. As she guarantees the tiuth of ©very word in it, the book is likely to be of interest}. Mrs. Dickenson is herself a Conservative in politics. Divergence of views on public matters did not) alrect the intimacy and deep affection which existed between her and h«r brother, with whom she resided for long periods at Avondale. The Most Rev. Dr. Glennon, Archbishop of St Louis, U.S. A , wh'a was recently in the United Kingdom, is the youngest Archbishop in the world. He is 42 years of age, as against Dr. Bourne's U summers. Dr. (ilewiion intended waiting the Engfeh cathedrals as wall as the mediaeval masterpieces of the Continent with a uew to gathering ideas, for the magnificent structure ho purposes, raising at St. Louis, the seat of his 1 archdiocese One of the most familiar sights in Dublin and m? which attracts the attention of all strangers 'is a »ady clad in a brilliant scarlet coat, driving a pair of dark brown horses in a high phaeton. The horses na\e long flowing itail.s— very unusual in Dublin— and the reins are white. The lady is not a Jehu in her timing, as she hardly ever puts the pair out of a valk T.he turn-out cannot pass any strangor without being remarked, and the question is asked ' Who is she ■> ' She is Mrs. Dickenson, the sister of the late Mr. Parnell. A prominent figure in the Irish literary renaissance is the poet, W. B. Yeats. Whether Mr. Yeats belie* cs -or not m the theory that it is tfoo duty of a poet to look picturesque, he certainly lives up to it. f..r lon-' ami somewhat dis-he\elled black hair, a Mousing foil hat, and loosely hanging clothes comIvuiM to ma i, e him a noticeable figure. His appearance Js always morci or less unusual, and it is said thai only of late years has he learned to give up s-tar-t'a'in<; lon-; enough to cross* the street in perfect Siifctv before the advance of the London 'bus The minor as to the illness of the ex-Empress iMigmie happily pwes to ha\c been unfounded but it m. st bo rronenKbercrl all the same that she is now ne.vlv an octogenarian, having bom born in 18.26 omly scon \ears later than Queen Victoria. It argues Picinollous utahiv that she has been able for so lout? to ttmsL the sorrows which began; to fall on her so tliic.lv just fno and thirty years ago, when she and her consort lost their Empire, and the still heavier blow <rf nine years later, when her only son fell under the jsscGftis of the Zulus. The ■ pared old man of the Canadian Senate, Mr Da' id Wart-, who died about the middle of August' possessed the prowl distinction of being the oldest tyislatoir m the world. A nalhe of Derry, ho " early left- irelan-d to -push his foTtunes under the flag of the greal. Western colony. He was a splendid type of the Matrons old exile, of whom thrre are now so many in o'tJior parts of the world upibolding the. credit of the race from which they sprang, and filling positions of honor for which they were of course unfit in thoir own country. Mr. Wark was 101 years six months and a day. His mind remained dear t" the last Death was' the result of advanced years Mr Wark did not alt end tlhe Parliamtntary session ' this hund'redth^ear^ P-ent whan "he attained his