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...running-deer shoot from Grand Duke Michael of Russia for $350. At an exhibition in England, five ruling monarchs were present. A man who was to rule as Wilhelm II of Germany, expressed a desire to have the ash removed from his cigaret by a bullet. Annie Oakley obliged. Queen Victoria sent her a signed photograph. Prince Edward (VII) of Wales presented her on the grounds of the London Gun Club, where she was the first woman ever allowed to shoot, and gave her a medal inscribed: "You are the greatest shot I ever saw." His son, George V, himself...
About every other week, sharp-eyed collectors read a two-inch news item about a man named Huntington who buys things. Last week it was a collection of the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, and her son, James I of England. Other items have announced that this Mr. Huntington bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," and the best Gutenberg Bible in existence, and that very rare object, a first folio of Shakespeare, and a first edition of Hamlet, and . . . But the "Blue Boy" and the Bible aside, what sort of man, people have wondered, is Mr. Huntington...
...admired. Mr. Morgan had a very great library, a very great gallery. He is dead, and now the world produces no one else to match in the depth of this need to buy and hold the California gentleman who has come to own the letters of Mary Queen of Scots. If Mr. Huntington wants to read Chaucer in the evening, he can take down the original manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer's spidery, faded, careful hand, manuscript said to be the most valuable in the world. He owns the original manuscript of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin...
...Died. Queen Fontana, 5, record-breaking hen, at Fontana, Calif., of natural causes. She had just laid her 1174th egg, as contrasted with the average hen's life capacity of 270 (2 years),* and left 400,000 descendants...
...round, glittering spectacles and clean-shaven ascetic countenance, he looks very much like a village deacon, gnome-like brow, repository of his inspiration and technique, is revealing feature. Years ago drew political cartoons for Punch and The Graphic. Lately he been called "court painter to King Oberon and Queen Titania...