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...painting with Frenchman named Frederic Rondel, to whom he went every Saturday night for a month to learn how to lay out a palette. ' his brushes. In 1861 Harper's Weekly him to Washington to make drawings the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, r sent him on the Peninsular Campaign to make war sketches. Harper's readers soon began to look forward to the weekly drawings of loafing sentries, mule skinners, sutlers, cannoneers, "from our special correspondent at the front...
...hideous, ungainly reptiles which were then the lords of life roamed two vast continents, ''Gondwanaland" in the southern hemisphere, "Laurasia" in the northern. A globe-girdling ocean, the "Tethys Deep," divided them. Mighty Gondwanaland shuddered, cracked and sundered. Its fragments drifted to form South America. Africa. Australia, Peninsular India, Madagascar. Mighty Laurasia similarly broke to form North America and Eurasia...
...Italia Line. Though Tsar Emil Lederer of the Transatlantic Passenger Conference keeps fares equalized for all, the fight for traffic is hot, the profits nil. Only big British shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late great Lord Inchcape's mighty Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. World's largest steamship company, P. & O. operates almost two million tons of shipping, chiefly over the Empire route to India, the Far East and Australasia...
Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...
...revenue from estate duties. To this error (resulting from the fact that an unusually small number of rich men died during the year) Chancellor Chamberlain alluded by making the only joke in his budget speech. "I am reminded," said he stroking his mustache, "of that story concerning the Peninsular War, the story of the General who saw his troops hesitate to charge and encouraged them by exclaiming, 'You don't want to live forever...