The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-11-06
PEOPLE YOU'VE HEARD OF.

| rope Leo Is SeVenty-elSnt years
old.
Sensitive Sarah Bernhardt de-
nies the report that she is growing
fleshy.
General Franz Sigel is now a
United States pension agent in
New York.
John B. Alley, the Boston mil
lionaire, has had a double stroke
of paralysis.
George Gould is beginning to
be afflicted with his fathers tor.
menting complaint of neuralgia.
The crown prince of Greece dis,
likes publicity and often travels in
a third-class railway coach.
George W. Childs, the Phila
delphia editor, never sits in street
car while there is a woman stand
ing.
Miss Crabtree 0otta) has just
spent S25,OOO for bric-aprac to or
nament her house at Lake Hopat-
cong.
James Flood, the bonanza king,
is one of the few men who have
had the pleasure of reading their
own obituary notices.
Miss Ethel Sprague, daughter
of Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, will
spend the winter in New York
studying for the stage.
Henry S. Ives, the bankrupt
broker" has sold his Brooklyn
residence for $125,0O0, and is
boarding at fashionable hotel.
Mr.. Coogan, the Labor candi-
date for the mayoralty of New
York, is described as bright,
brisk, popular and wealthy man.
Mrs. Moses Taylor of New York
is the richest widow in this coun-
try, if not in the world. Her for
, tune is estimated at $40,OOO,0O0.
i The Duke and Duchess of Marl-
borough are to visit this country
during the winter and participate
|! In the gayeties of New York life.
i Judge Thurman, since his nomi-
, nation for the vice presidency, has
received from unknown admirers
thirteen snuff f-boxes.
| Mrs. General Sheridan will erect
a monument over her husbands
grave, declining the generous offer
of the Loyal Legion to perform
that office.
u Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is
clinging to life with remarkable
Ipower. A week ago she seemed
: dying, but rallied. Feeble as she
is, she may live for weeks yet.
Il Marceline Campos, colored, sud-
denly finds himself an orphan at
the age of ninety years, in Havana,
, where his mother died last week at
the age of one hundred and four.
teen years.
i Lord Sackville, the British min
lister at Washington, smokes cigar
cites and writes confidential let
ters, in which he expresses his
honest, private opinions. He has
done some good.
i King Kalakua is in very poor
health. Lack of sleep and worry
lover the unsatisfactory condition
of Government affairs have made
him thin and nervous. He smokes
constantly.
Victoria Woodruff, who married
the wealthy Englishman, John
Biddulph Martin, now issues a
pamphlet on ''Stirpiculture; or the
scientific propagation of the hu.
man race"
i Mrs. Crane Washington, col
ored woman living near Charles.
ton, S. c., has given birth to five
children during the last year
Last January she became the
mother of triplets and a few day!
ago of twins.
H. G. Spafford, an old Chicago
. an, whose mind was affected BY
financial and domestic losses, anc
who went to Jerusalem as the sec.
ond Messiah in 1880, taking will
% him twelve disciples, died in ths
city about a month ago,
Larious Smith, who recently
died in Vermont at the age O
: ninety-two, is thought there tt
have been the oldest soldier of the
II civil war. In 1868 he enlisted il
y Company 1, Twelfth Vermont vol
unteers, being at that time sixty