Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-21
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Maxwell, better known as Miss NJ.
Braddon, is just passing the prime of
LIE and enjoys the most vigorous, robust
health. she lives in fine house near
London, and is fond of driving team of
spirited chestnut horses.
| Although Mr. Tur!e, for fifty wears
organist of Westminster Abbey, lies buried
according TO his own directions beside his
wife in Norwood Cemetery, his memory is
to be honored at the scene Of his labors
by an elaborate window, placed appropri.
ately above the graves of Henry Purcell
and Sterndale Bennett.
Sims Reeves sang in the choir of York
Minister on recent Sunday on the occa.
sion of a special collection for the benefit
of hospital, and so great was the crowd
to hear him that several persons were seri-
ously crushed. Mr.. Reeves sang from
The Messiah with much of the power
and richness of his palmiest days.
Nicoi, Prince OF Montenegro, is the most
favored royal visitor there has been at st.
Petersburg for many years. The Car and
the Grand Dukes lavish upon him every
possible attention, probably thus hoping to
hold him back from the much talked.o
Austrian alliance, and to save from being
lost the So. 900, 600 Russia has, at various
times, spent in maintaining close relations
with Montenegro.
On his way to Cresson Springs, He! bert
Spencer stopped in Pittsburg for a short
time, and was much interested in the great
iron works there, but was glad to get away
quickly from the noise and smoke. There
were only few mile running there then,
and he thought that if they made so much
smoke, that produced when they are all in
operation must be too much for his pros
trated nerves to endure.
Bismarck is mau Z" that hath no music
in his SOUL" Talking recently with the
painter Lsnbach, his guest at Varzin, he
frankly owned that neither he nor any of his
children possessed even the rudiments of
musical feeling. Now ard then he did not
object to hearing q good italian hand
organ, or an accordeon, but as for orches-
tras, pianos, the opera, prime donue-bah
he had no time to waste over such nor
sense AMI as foT tenor singers, over whom
50 many went into ecstasies, he could not
endure them.
DR.. Parker, pastor of the City Temple,
Lcndon, breaches from platform about s
feet square and y feet high On this
lofty perch, in the dim light, his tall, mas
sive figure presents striking appearance.
He wears long black robe, aud brushes
his black hair out on every eide until it en-
circles his face like gloomy n;mbus. His
counterance is mobile, his voice is singu-
laIly resonant and penetrating, and his
gestures are dramatic in the highest de-
gree. In his sermons he depends largely
upon carefully prepared notes, and seldom
fails to lave an audience that fills the
church, the seating capacity Of which is
about 3. 900.
Franklin Simmons, the American scuIp.
tor, now in Rome, has nearly completed
the statue of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's
"War Governor" on which he has long
been engaged. The figure is about eight
feet high, and represents Mr.. Morton in
the act of speaking. Mr.. Simmons has
also recently modelled statue of Medusa,
showing her at the moment when first she
sees the incipient transformation of her
locks, and the panied, shrinking expression
craven by the artist upon her face is de-
scribed as singularly truthful and lifelike
The figure is life-sizsd, and will be twice
copied in marble, one copy being destined
for London and the other for this country.