Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-13
PERSONAL NOTES.

Queen Olga, of Greece, writes poetry.
Greclan editors have our sympathy.
NJ. Francoisgot, the well-known French
actor, has been appointed Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor.
Professor Charcot, Paris doctor, is
said to have been paid $40, 900 for consul
tation in st. Petersburg.
The long talked of wedding between the
Duke of Argyle and Mrs. Arson is to come
off before the end of this year.
Mr.. Tibbles, who married bright
Eyes," the Indian maiden, now has Mrs.
Iron Horse for mother. in law.
Princess Louise is as independent as a
widow and mixes in general society more
than any of Queen Victoria's daughters.
DR.. Bliss speaks of physiciansIas "med-
ical gentlemen, and of journalists as "you
fellows" DIR. Bliss ear evidently needs
shifting.
A nephew of jay Gould drives street.
car in Omaha, and when the stockholders
of the road find it out they will begin to
watch the car.
Vanderbilt told Western reporter that
he had not the least intention of buying
any ulOiC ldilOduS l1C COusluSl5 ulo COi-
lection large enough now.
Mrs. Senator Warner Miller, whose FAM
lily name was Churchill, and her mothers
family name Burr, first met her husband
at teachers institute in Central New
York.
In the trial of Mrs. Fletcher, Boston
spiritual medium, for swindling dupe,
she asked the Courts permission to intro
duce the testimony of disembodied spirit.
His Honor said no.
Congressman Jorgensen, of Virginia,
homes head. As Malone has luxuriant
crop of hair, Mr.. Jorgensen's remark is
somewhat personal.
A correspondent of the Norfolk Virgiaian
names Judge r. w. Hughes of the United
States District Court for the seat on the
Supreme Bench made vacant by the death
of Justice Clifford.
An hundred ladies and gentlemen, ad-
mirers of the works of DR.. j. G. Holland,
recently sent him offerings OF flowers as
birthday gift, to be placed on his fathers
grave at Northampton.
A painter has been arrested in Pittsburg
for stealing few dollars from the Stand
ard Oil Company, whose office he was
painting. The officers of the Standard
Oil Company are all at large.
Rev. J.. H. Laughlin, who proposes to
become missionary to China, starts for
the Shan Tung Mission in the coming au-
tumn. Mr. Laughlin is a graduate of the
Princeton College and Seminary.
The American horses have won sixteen
races in England this season, and the i'm
preston is gaining ground over there that
the President of the United States is a
bigger man than the Prince of Wales.
The Universalist Publishing House, Bos-
ton, Mass, has decided to publish mem
OR of the late Rev. E. H. Cnapin, d. D.
The work of its preparation has been placed
in the hands OF Rev. Sumner Ellis, D. d.
Mrs. Garfield has received gift of beau
tiful glassware from some American manu-
facturers who were so unseltish and consid-
crate that they sent the ware through an
other firm and would not allow their names
to be mentioned.
The salutatorian at Yale this year was
German, the valedictorian Hebrew, and
the prize declaimer Chinaman. But
WHICH II comes To real ClasSlCdl CulbuIc Jul
native land is there. The pitcher of the
base ball club is an American.
William Lehman Ashmead Burdett-
Coutts Bartlett seems likely to lose him.
self among names. He has lately adver.
tised several additions to his original pa.
tronymic, and now tells the whole world
that, pursuant to the Duchess of st. AL
bans will, he will henceforth use the sur
name Coutts.
Robert Browning is pleasantly described
as wandering through the crowd at the
Royal Academy entertainments with kind
word and warm grasp of the hand for all
his friends, and, above all, ga stolen glance
of affection at his sons pictures as he quiz
city passes them by"
Prince Bismarck one said TO friend
"In politics act as l do out snipe- shoot
ing. put my foot on one stone and do
not take it off till see my way to another.
When have found that / step firmly on
to the new stone and leave the old one be-
hind, and so one till 1 am out of the
marsh" Prince Conkling tried this plan,
but found himself short of stepping stones
when about half mile from shore.