Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Attorney-GeneralM Miller has Just taken
a house next to Chief Justice Fuller in
Washington.
Henry Irving is contemplating tour in
Australia. He has been offered great in
ducements to go there.
1t is reported that DIR. Won Bulow has
signed an agreement to revisit the United
States in the early spring.
John G. Whittier dedicated his poem
Miriam" to his lifelong friend, the late
President Barnard of Columbia College.
1t is now said that General Boulanger is
not well read, and that aside from military
matters he is singularly uniformed
man.
Homer B. Sprague, the well-known edu-
Gator, has compiled Shakespeare's tragedy
of Macbeth with voluminous notes and
references.
Elbridge Gerry says Ward McAllister
is incapable "of formulating any business
proposition so that any possible human be-
ing could understand his objective"
General Adam E. King, of Baltimore,
who is to be the next Consul General at
Paris, is a genial, cultivated man, who
will shine to advantage in Partisan society.
Professor and Mrs Tyndall are soon to
return from Switzerland to England. Pro-
fessor TyndalPs health has been much
benefited by his latest scrambles among the
Alps.
William Sharp, the London poet and
critic, and editor of 'The Canterbury
Poets" has been enjoying New York's hos.
pitalities, the guest of Edmund Clarence
Stedman.
Mrs. Frederika Nielsen, formerly an
actress in the Kings theater, Norway, has
been converted, and is now preaching
evangelistic sermons in the Scandinavian
Methodist Church, Salt Lake City.
John Burns, the London labor agitator,
uses no tobacco and is total abstainer OF
liquors. He is very studious man, and
has collected a valuable library of stand
ard works, largely on political and social
economy.
Sir Arthur Sullivan confesses that his
sacred song, "The Lost Chord" has
brought him $4,000. Sir Arthur must be
of the opinion that the lost chord was
worth losing. He will do well to find it
and lose it again.
Amanda NJ. Douglass, the novelist, has
for the past sixteen years been the chief
support of her father and sister, snd most
of the time of her mother also. During all
these years she has written on an average
two novels year.
Joel Chandler Harris, who is better
known as "Uncle Remus," would not take
prize at beauty show. His mustache
only partially conceals a coarse mouth,
while the eyes seem on the point of pop
ping from his head to escape from a nose
which his most partial friend would not
call handsome.
Oscar H. Cooper has been made Pro-
fessor of Latin in the University of Texas.
Mr.. Cooper was graduated from Yale
College in 1927 and afterward from the
University of Berlin, where he prepared
himself especially for such a position as
he is now to fill For several years he has
been Superintendent of Education in
Texas, and in that capacity has done
much to advance the progress of the pub
lie school system throughout the South.
Miss Juliet Corson is a remarkable
woman. The victim of an incurable dis
ease, given over by her physicians, out
living the limits Of life which they have
from time to time prescribed, she keeps
up her literary work, turning out certain
amount of copy each week, and has re-
Gently undertaken the editorship of
household journal. In addition to these
labors she has constantly an ear for the
philanthropic projects which touch upon
her specialty-cooking.
The Prince of Wales, says the London
Star, lives the life of regular country
gentleman at Sandringham, eating the
huge breakfasts of the Norfolk farmer.
going in extensively for home comforts,
looking after his farms and stock, and TAX
inga keen interest in sport. He is not a
bad landlord, as landlords go, but, as a
bitter and terribly satiric pamphlet by
brilliant lady tenant of the Princes lately
informed the world, H. R. H. brooks no
obstacles in his path when his rights as a
land despot are in question.