Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


author of several novels.
1t is said that Sir James Hammer will
| be raised to the Peerage.
Mrs. Amelie Rives-Chanler has gone to
Algeria to spend the winter
Oscar Wilde is writing a novel. 1t will
first see the light in America.
The Rev. Yadoc Khangran, Grand Rabbi
of Paris, has been elected Grand Rabbi of
France.
Miss Rachel Sherman, the daughter of
General Sherman, will locate in Paris for
the winter.
King Luis, of Portugal, gave the copy
rights Of his literary works to charitable
institutions.
When Little PhiF Sheridan, now
9-year old, is old enough he is to have a
West Point appointment.
VIM. Walter Phelps, United States Min
lister at Berlin, has received the degree of
LII. D. from Rutgers College.
Sansuke Hayaslli, japanese Superintend-
ent of Police, is travelling through Europe
to get points on his profession.
Emile lola, the author, is a candidate
for the seat in the French Academy, made
vacant by the death of Emile Augier.
The Rev. H. D. Ward and Mrs. Ward
(nee Elizabeth Stuart Phelps have taken
a house in Washington for the season.
Only thirteen of the 375 Senators and
Representatives who sat in Congress in
1876, the centennial year, still retain their
seats.
1t is said that Queen Victoria is keep
ing her unpublished manuscripts, poems
and short stories for publication after her
death.
Harriet Beecher Stowe recently said:
wish writers of my life would wait until
am dead before they publish their biog-
raphies"
S. n. D. North, of Boston, Is in charge
of the newspaper statistics for the census
Of $780, He held the same position ten
years ago.
The Phi Beta Kappa Grafton at Har-
ward next June will be delivered by the
Right Rev. Henry c. Potter, Bishop of
New York.
Mile Rosa Bonheur has given to Buffalo
Bill fine pair o&mustangs which she had
been unable to break. His cowboys quickly
brought them to time.
Ex-Justice Mortimer NJ. Jackson, who
died at Madison, Wisconsin, recently, was
United States Consul at Halifax for twenty
years, having been appointed by Lincoln
in 1861.
The Russian Emperor as he grows older
becomes in appearance more and more
III,
bald, fat-nosed, and enormously mustached
and bearded.
Mrs Redfeld Proctor will spend most of
the winter in the South, nursing her inva-
lid son. In her absence her daughter and
her niece, Miss Carey, will preside over
the War Secretary's household
The Rev. Barring Gould, who is musi-
clan as well ds an author, has organized
company of amateurs, which has achieved
great success in singing old Cornish and
Devon ballads through those counties.
Charles Bradlaugh, the noted English
atheist and member of Parliament, who
has been dangerously i'll of congestion Of
the lungs, has recovered. He will soon
take voyage to regain his full strength.
Sir Frederick Young, who is past the
age Of 20, has just returned to London from
one of the most remarkable journeys ever
made by man of his years-a South Afri-
can tour that covered 10000 miles. He
was not sick day during his absence from
home
Wilkie Collins directed in his will that
he should be buried in Kensal Green Gem
etery, at a cost not exceeding Gl25, that
no scarfs or hatbands should be used, and
that plain stone cross to be placed over
his grave should bear only the inscription
which he had prepared.
Rear-Admiral Selfridge, who has been
in the naval service of the United States
seventy-one years and Rear-Admiral
since the grade was established in 1852,
is a stumpy little man with very red
face and very white whiskers, and the
mellowest possible temper.
Mrs. Mary Clement-Leavitt, of Boston,
the noted temperance lecturer, now on
tour around the world, was lately the
guest, in London, Of Mrs. Margaret Lewis,
the venerable sister of the late John
Bright. Mrs. Leavitt has travelled 10000
miles since 1884, and addressed audiences
of all colors and in all lands.