Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-18
PERSONALS.

Levy will toot his horn at Manhattan
Beach next summer, to the tune of $500
week.
Ernest Longfellow, who is now in Paris,
has been made one of the Executive Com
mittee of the Boston Art Club.
Preston Powers intends, it is reported,
to present statue of his father, Hiram
Powers, to the latter's native town of
Woodstock, VT.
Princess Louise gave So each to two
sailors on the SarInatian whose fingers were
frostbitten during her voyage. She told
them to buy mittens.
The Indian witnesses in the Ponca case
have named Senator Dawes Great-Chief-
Who-Asks-Q Questions, " because he cross
examines so thoroughly.
Exiled Marshal Bazaine is said to be
carrying on large farm near Madrid,
making speciality of breeding superior
variety of American hogs.
Rumors that the grandson of John C.
Calhoun is st. Louis barkeeper are denied.
The namesake and only grandson of the
great South Carolnian is wealthy planter
in Arkansas.
"Monsieur Dix-Minutes" was one of
Eugenie's pet names for her son in his
childhood, because he frequently asked for
ten minutes more when invited out of his
bed in the morning.
Having received a check for nearly the
whole of the 100000 to which he finds
himself heir, Chauncey Slater, foreman Of
mandatory at Mansfield, Conn.,, con-
70 xt-nry hafora
Brumidi's only son, youth Of 10 years,
does not inherit wealth, but he is said to
have large share of his fathers genius.
1t was the ambition of the dead painter to
have his son finish the ornamentation of
the Capitol.
Queen Victoria, it is reported is cut to
the heart by the radical talk in Canada,
and has in conversation more than once re-
called the pathetic declaration of Queen
Mary when she heard that Calais was cut
off from her kingdom.
Ex-President of France, Marshal Mac
Mahon, recently visited the Senate secretly
to hear speech. When discovered, he
declined reserved seat. At the age of
y he lives in quietness, devoting himself
to the preparation of his memoirs.
Mr.. Allen, the American accredited as
Hawaiian Minister to the United States,
appeared at the recent diplomatic reception
decorated like his peers. He wore across
his chest the Hawaiian grand cross of
knighthood and its broad blue ribbon.
The late James Lenox was heard to say,
| twenty-five years ago: " have learned
by experience the difference between bust
ness and benevolence." He has been
known to refuse to lend man money be-
cause the security seemed insufficient,
while at the same time he handed him q
handsome present
Mrs. Hayes has sent to the Grand Army
Fair of Major Boyd Post, at West New
bury, Mass, some exquisite photographs of
| Andrews full-length portrait of Mrs.
Washington, which now graces the East
Room, each one bearing her autograph,
and box OF cut flowers from the White
House conservatory.
The tall, fair and fragile looking Prin-
cess Blanche d'Orleans is going to marry
the Prince de Ligne, who, although not Of
royal birth, is allied to several reigning
families. Princess Blanche is the second
/ daughter of the Due de Nemours, and il.
the frequent companion of her father in
Paris society. she is the only remaining
unmarried granddaughter of Louis Phil
ippe.
The daughter of Spotted Tail, tall, un-
calmly young woman of Is, is studying in
the Government school for Indians at Car
Isle Barracks, Pa She has lately married
the half breed interpreter employed at the
barracks, and when sent to do some scrub
bing the other day her lordly husband in
terfered. His wife was of royal blood, he
remarked, the daughter of chief, and he
wanted her to learn only what the white
ladies do.
Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, is de-
scribed by the Washington correspondent
of the Journal, of Indianapolis, as having
won his way to Congress in an Orpheus-
like manner He simply fddled. After
| he got his nomination he put his fiddle un-
der his arm and started forth upon his cam
paign among the mountsineers of his dis
trict, making a few speeches, and causing
his violin to breathe out still more per-
suasive music.
Richard Wagner is quoted as writing to
Herr Nohl, who dedicated to him "The
Letters of Beethoven" s.You must have
known what you were doing in dedicating
this book TO me !; you must have known
| that you would offend that large class who
constantly labor to impress the public with
the idea that despise our musical classes.
> Neither can you be ignorant of the reasons