Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-19
ABOUT PERSONS.

Marie techter, the daughter OF the well
known actor, is soon to be married to NJ
Basquin, one of the tenors of the Grand
Opera in Paris.
When the Emperor of China travels
in public it is said that 100 men dressed
| just like him travel with him, so that his
identity cannot be discovered.
Johann Strauss is engaged upon new
operetta-" The Merry War"-which he
hopes to have completed in time for pro.
| duction at Vienna in December.
NM. Pasteur, Sully. Prudhomme and
Francois Coppee are among the candidates
for the chair in the Academic Francaise
left vacant by the death of Nj. Littre.
The simple facts about the origin and
history of the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood
are to be related by w. NJ. Rossetti in the
August number of the London Mdgdzine Of
Art.
Representative Horace Davis, of Califor-
mia, has presented to Massachusetts, life
sized medallion in marble of his father,
John Davis, who was Governor of the
Commonwealth in 1884 ) and lS4l 8.
A place has been found for the intended
monument of Lord Beaconsfeld in West
minister Abbey against the southwest pier
of the crossing, which is one of the most
important sites in the building, and imme.
diately opposite the statue of one of Eng
lands greatest men.
1t was recently announced in Paris that
it had been proposed to decorate Nj. Got,
the senior societdire of the Comedie Fran.
caise, with the cross of the Legion of
Honor, but that objections had been raised
by representatives of the army to having
comedians classed along with them.
General di Cesnola has been received
with much distinction in London. He
was made a member of the Athenaum
Club, and entertainments were given in
his honor by Sir Frederick Leighton, Presi-
dent of the Royal Academy, Sir John Lub.
book, and other men distinguished in liter
ature, science and art.
Menelick IL, King of Shoa, in Abys-
sinia, has dispatched to the President OF
France two messengers, who are charged
with special business pertaining to the
East, and, in addition, are the bearers of
precious gifts. Among these gifts is
peculiar zebra, no specimen of the kind
having, it is believed, found its way at any
former time into European country.
Professor Corson, of Cornell University,
Ithaca, is in London for a short time, on
his way to Switzerland with a party of
friends He reports the existence of a
three -year-old Browning Club among the
professors of the University and their
wives. 1t has met once fortnight and
has read and discussed Mr.. Browning's
chief minor poems and his Ring and the
Book. ."-[London Academy.
The Reuista Contemporanea for June
30th opens with an article on journal
ism in the United States" by Senior Jor-
dano Morena. The writer asserts that
in this country good copied articles are
preferred to original ones, as the editors
select only the telling sentences and omit
superfuities. interviewing reporting is
popular, even with its victims. The
stipend of chief editor in first class cities
New York excepted), is about 5000 a
year. In the United States journalism is
an industry, and is worked accordingly !;
in Spain it is used merely as a step to po-
litical Office.
1t is proposed to erect memorial in the
Protestant burial ground at Rome to Jos.
Severn, the painter who was the poet
his last illness. Permission has been OBJ.
tained-through the intercession of Mr..
Gladstone and Lord Granville-to remove
his body from the obscure place in the new
cemetery where it has been deposited to the
old cemetery, where Keats lies. The inten-
tion is to perpetuate more especially the
remembrance OF Severn as the friend of the
poet. The new stone over the grave of
Severn will be exactly similar to the we'll
known gravestone of Keats, and the two
will stand together, surrounded by one
hedge and railing. Behind the graves it is
proposed to have a monument or memorial
tablet to perpetuate the remembrance of
both poet and painter. The idea that the
two graves should be similar in design is
due to the suggestion of Sir Vincent Eyre,
who has furnished an appropriate inscrip-
tion and a sketch for the monument, which
will be erected by public subscription. Sir
Vincent wrote the lines on the memorial
placed on the wall of the cemetery under
the medallion of Keats.