Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-16
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Herr Georg Ebers. the novelist. Is q
hopeless and greatly suffering invalid.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell is elected
orator for Boston University's commence
ment day.
Gail Hamilton writes her articles with
stab pen, often on old envelopes and
scraps OF paper.
Queen Victoria still has her boots made
in the old-fashioned wav-elastic sides
soft Kid uppers pointed toe-caps and low
heels.
Gladstone is said to have no memory of
faces, but facts and principles with him
have the adhesive force of sticking
plaster.
Miss Amelia b. Edwards, the talented
Psychologist, has already been engaged to
deliver twenty-four lectures next winter in
American cities.
Miss Mary Whately, the daughter of
Archbishop Whately, who has recently
died in Cairo, opened a school for Moslem
girls at her own expense.
Miss Hanson is candidate for the
chair of archaeology at University College,
England. She is a celebrated English
woman, and an authority on Greek art.
D. B. Flint of Boston still drives one Of
the horses ridden by General Grant during
portion of the war The animal is %
year old, milk white, and still full of life.
The new Professor of Pathology at the
venerable University of Bologna is Signor-
ina Giuseppina Cattani, an uncommonly
pretty young lady of profound scholarship.
Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the
noted Scotch divine, lives in one of the
lowest parts Of Edinburgh, devoting her
life to reclaiming girls and women of the
street.
1t is reported that Claude Melnotte, a
Minneapolis banker, has lust married 4
full blooded Louisiana negress, whose color
is qualified, however, by the possession of
over 81, 100000.
c. p. Huntington is about to construct
on Fifth avenue one of the handsomest
private residences in America. He has
Just purchased the site, which runs from
Fifty-sixth to Fifty-Seventh street, from
Robert Bonners sons for S45O,0OO.
New York's most fashionable June we'd
ding will probably be that of Miss Bessie
Drexel, daughter of Joseph w. DreNel. to
John Dahlgren, son of the late Commo-
dore Dahlgren, which will take place on
June 10Th in the cathedral, Archbishop
Corrigan officiating.
When Mr.. Bancroft, the well-known
English comedian, was celebrating his
silver wedding, he thought to pay his wife
a pretty compliment by saying, My dear,
you ought to have married a better man
than l am" To which Mrs Bancroft re-
piled, My dear, cid"
Here's good example of American op-
portunity: Twenty-One years ago George
w. Winans, State Superintendent of
Schools in Kansas, worked as a common
laborer in excavating for the foundation
of the building in which he now very
worthily holds an honorable office.
Henry George delivered lecture on
THE Land for the People" in the Birm-
ingham Town Hall recently to a large
audience. The Birmingham Daily Post
declares that since he visited the town six
years since, no progress whatever has been
made locally in support of his ideas.
Archbishop Corrigan is said te be one of
the best amateur pedestrians in New York.
He never uses a carriage except in bad
weather or when in a hurry. He is fine
specimen of manhood, and, in addition to
presiding over the largest Catholic See in
the country, is the youngest Bishop i'll the
United States.
The following story is told of Sir James
Hanuen: He was hearing a divorce case,
in which one of the witnesses a rather
bumptious parsonage, inquired with an air
of one who is putting poser: pray, my
lord am | to give my evidence for moth
ing" 81 think" replied Sir James,
" that you will have to give it for what it
is worth"
Prince Alois Schwarzenberg, the victim
of the latest fatal duel in Vienna, owned
twenty-three breweries, four sugar refiner-
les, one oil mandatory, twenty-three saw
mills, one bakery, four water-mills, forty
six brick kilns and host of farms, cot
tages and manufactures. And yet he had
no better sense than to fight a duel and get
killed in an obscure quarrel.
A ladies' literary dinner was held in
London few days ago with Miss Olive
Schreiner as President. Covers were laid
for thirty, and no men were admitted.
Miss Schreiner, whom some one has dubbed
" the Charlotte Bronte of our time" lives
in lodgings at the East End of London,
to that unpleasant district, she
says, by the greater viyacity Of facial ex-
preston to be observed there.
Amelie Rives-Chanler had strange
caller in Paris a few days ago-no less
parsonage than Louise Michel. The Nihi-
listic Parisienne has literary tastes and as
pirations, and she was anxious to have the
author of "The Quick or the Dead ?" read
certain manuscript poems and pass judg-
ment upon them. Just what Amelie said
to Louise is not known, but the former
confessed to a friend that she was afraid of
the little Anarchist and did not dare to re-
fuse her request.
Professor Sylvester, who came from
England to be professor of mathematics at
Johns Hopkins University, is absent
minded. Calling on friends in Baltimore,
he inspected the pictures on the parlor
walls, and, coming to two striking looking
ones, asked Who were they. George and
Martha Washington" "Ah, friends of
the family, l suppose" Afteward he re-
member that there was Father of his
Country, and apologized.
Jacob L. Doty, the Consul at the Society
Islands, who is to marry the Princess Po-
Iona, was page in the United States Sem
ate from the age of thirteen until he was
sixteen. He was a great favorite with Sem
ator Bayard. When the latter became
Secretary of State he made Doty Consul to
Tahiti. Doty's father had certain claims
against the Tahitian Government, and the
young man was anxious to 60 out and see
about them His brother is Private Sec
retary to Deacon" White, OF Brooklyn.
Consul Doty will be married soon, and will
bring his wife to this country for visit.