Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-11
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Mention of Men and Things Throught
the World.

| the World.
Mrs. John A. Logan will return home
in August from Europe.
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan is to- remain
abroad for an indefinite period.
The British Minister at Washington gets
30,0O0 year and his residence.
The late learned DIR. Barnard, of Col
umbia College, was printer by trade.
The famous Portland necklace will at
last be worn by the Duchess of Portland
Marchioness Mazda of Japan is said to
be the possessor of a fortune Of S6,000,000
The Prince of Wales has taken up new
| prestidigitateur in London named Sydney
| Pridmore.
Sir Charles Dixie will shortly deliver a
series of labor speeches in the mining dis
tricts of England.
| Mrs. Cleveland was received with ire
mendous applause on one occasion during
the centennial ball.
| Octave Thanet's real name is Alice
| French. She is a most industrious literary
worker often writing ten hours day.
The Shah of Persia, who will be in Paris
!
house belonging to the Bank of France
Every time the national colors came
within range at New York's great military
review, President Harrison's hat came off.
Caesar and Washington, each without
any considerable experience in arms, took
up the profession of soldier at the age
of Is.
| picho,, Eocta, hoo oro,,.oI -<,.,o -:
nation among the high-salaried clergymen
by saying that no preacher is worth Sl0,-
600 year
DIR. Talmage expects to see the world
converted by 1900. He has a very cheer
full view, but it looks little as if he might
| be mistaken.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has or
| dered the clerks in his department to quit
loating about it on Sunday. He is a be-
| lever in the Sabbath.
Senator Mcmillan, the new man from
| Michigan, always lunches on the best food,
| drinks the most expensive wines, and
smokes none but the best cigars.
Governor Beaver, strapped to his saddle
| because he hasn't legs enough to ride
otherwise, attracted great attention in
New Yorks great military parade.
Miss Margaret Blaine is bright, witty
and popular young woman, and she shows
| her Blaine blood and training by her pre-
eminent qualities as social diplomat
A department has been arranged under
the name of 1.-THE Woman's Club" at
Chautauqua for this summer. Mrs. Emily
Huntington Miller will have charge of it.
4 good deal of fun is made of old Dhu-
leep Sing, the Indian Prince, who has
asked Queen Victoria for the Koh-i-nor
diamond. The truth is, the diamond be-
longs to him.
The portrait of the late Chief Justice
Waite has just been added to the collection
of portraits of members of the United
States Supreme Court in the robing room
in the Capitol.
Prince Oscar of Sweden, who last year
abandoned his claim to the crown in order
to marry Miss Ebba Munck, thinks that
| all is atoned for now that he is the father
of fine daughter.
1t was fact worthy of special mention
that of the cheers along the line of march
in the centennial parade, none were heartier
than those given as the Governors of
Southern States rode by.
The American pilgrims who are now
travelling in the Holy Land are all we'll,
and have been the recipients of many kind
attentions from the heads of the various
monastic orders in Palestine.
General Won Verdy du Vernois, the
new German Minister of War, is admitted
to be the foremost living military writer,
and his works on the art of command have
revolutionized the strategic teachings of
all Europe.
William L. Bright is thinking of retir-
ing from Parliament to devote himself to
business, of which he is enormously sue
cessful He is the only one of John
Brighfs sons who inherits his fathers rare
sense of humor.
Lord Brassey has Just fitted up and fur
nished a most interesting addition to his
house. in the shape of collection of val
liable curiosities gathered by him and
Lady Brassey, during their voyage around
the world in the Sunbeam.
The Emperor of Austria has purchased
from the family of Count Wolkeustein-
Rodinegg collection of the songs of the
Tyrolese minnesinger, Oswald Won Wolken-
stein, and has presented it to the library of
Firdinandeum at Innsbruck.
Countess Tolstoi, it is stated, is the
daughter of Moscow physician, who
married the Count nearly thirty years ago,
when she was very young. She controls
and manages everything at the two houses
at Moscow and Yasnaia Poliana.
A little church was lately dedicated at
Grovetown, Ga, as a memorial to Paul III.
Hayne, the gentle poet whose home was at
that place. 1t was mainly the results of
the efforts of the ladies of Grovetown, and
was reared at the modest cost of Sl,775.
Miss Eugenia Washington, who is the
greats grand daughter of Washingtons full
brother, Samuel Washington, and who is
in the First Assistant Postmaster G GENERALS
office in Washington, is said to more nearly
resemble Washington than any of the de-
scendants Of the family.
NJ. Chevreul, the French scientist who
died recently at the age Of 102, was CEN
tenarian when his son died, aged SO. NJ.
Chevreul is reported to have been very
much chagrined that a child of his should
be So degenerate as to have to call in
physician at that tender age.
Kate Chase, a tall, well-built, rosy
checked girl, rides bareback on "a horse
fearlessly and alone over the slopes and
valleys among the California foothills near
Chico. She is a capital shot with a rifle,
and can ride the widest mustang without
bride or blanket, using simply lariat.
Washington received the degree LID.
from Harvard in 1776, from Yale in 1871,
from the University of Pennsylvania and
from Brown in 1871. A greater scholastic
distinction still was bestowed upon him in
17sS, when, by unanimous vote, he was
designated the Chancellor of the College
of William and Mary, an Office which he
bore with pride until the day of his death.
The first American Postmistress, says the
.Sanau South, was the widow of Colonel
Andrew Balfour of those revolutionary
times in the days of our good and great
President, Washington. She was Miss
Elizabeth Dayton Of Newport, r. 1. Bal
four came to America from Edinburgh,
Scotland, in 1772, landing at Boston. He
was a few years in the North-married
Miss Dayton in New York City.
Speaking of Mrs. John Chanler, formerly
known rs Misc Amelie Riyes the Rich