Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-03

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Robert Browning is at Asolo, in the
Apennines, completing a new volume OF
poems.
Minister William Walter Phelps wife
and daughter will join him in Berlin next
month.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, LII. d., will
lecture next mcnth at Vassar, Yale and
Trinity.
Isabella, the ex-Queen of Spain, has
entered her sixtieth year, in good health
and spirits.
Chief Justice Fuller and Secretary
Blaine were once fellow-reporters in the
Maine Legislature.
The late Henry Charles Westover,
coachman to the Prince of Wales, left a
fortune of about $4,000.
w. S. Taylor, the Amherst professor of
Greek, is an enthusiast on the language,
and has twice visited Greece.
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard is building a
new edifice for the Young Wom1h's Chris
tian Association of New York.
The Prince of Wales, on behalf of the
Queen, will bestow upon the Crown Prince
of Greece the Grand Cross of the Bath.
Lord Salisbury is tennis player, and a
good one, too. Lord Iddesleigh Stafford
Northcote) was a capital croquet player.
1t is rumored in Albany that Vanderbilt
money is going to erect a mammoth sum-
mer hotel on the Hudson, just out of AL
bany.
While in England the Shah acquired
an awful passion for cape-coats. He wears
them-of gorgeous hues, too-at all times
and places.
NJ Brunei, the liquidator of the Panama
Canal Company, announces that he is very
anxious to lind company to buy the plant
and complete the canal.
Both the candidates for Governor of
Massachusetts, this year are Harvard
alumni, Mr. Brackett in the class of 1865,
Mr.. Russell in that of 1877.
The wife of the new Chinese Minister at
Washington has not emerged from the Sc
clusion of the legation so that prying eyes
could catch glimpse of her.
Prince V. Duleep Singh, the East In
dian noble, who has been passing several
weeks at fashionable autumn resorts in
New England, has returned to New York.
The German papers call General Bou-
langer General Ex;" citing that he is an
ex.General, ex-Minister, ex-Deputy, ex-
party Chief, ex-future dictator, and is now
living in exile. a
George B. Mcclellan, son of General
Mcclellan, and reporter on New York
paper, has been appointed Treasurer and
Auditor of the Brooklyn Bridge Trustees,
at salary of $4,000.
Who says that Latin is dead language.
The Hon. Mr. Mercier, Premier of Quebec,
is to make speech in Latin at Baltimore
next month, at the centennial celebration
of Catholicism in America.
The Rev. DIR. Bartol, who for more than
fifty years has occupied the pulpit of the
old West Church in Boston, has again
sent in his resignation as pastor. As his
health is not good, he considers that his
condition will not warrant HIM in contin-
uing the duties of a pastor.
Walt Whitman, the good gray poet, has
boy about II years of age to drive him
around. The boy is very clever. He re-
Gently said: Il think great deal of w.
w. 1 keep notebook in which ! put
down all he says, and after he's dead II
going around lecturing about him."
The highest price Wilkie Collins ever
received for novel was 5000 guineas,
which was paid to him for "Armadale" be-
fore line of the story had been written.
Thackeray, only short time before his
death, cong1atu a'td Collins on the trans
action, and told him that he never him
self made as much by any of his works.
The recent appointment of Mrs. Alice
Freeman Palmer, ex-President of Welles-
lev College, on the Massachusetts State
Board of Education, to succeed Horace E.
Scudder, of Cambridge, is, says the Spring
field Union, very happy and fitting one.
1t is only after mature deliberation that
Mrs Palmer accepted the position, which
had been twice offered to her, once before
her departure for Europe and again since
her return The hesitation shown in ac-
cepting was because of doubt as to her
power to fully carry out all its duties, ow-
ing to the many existent claims upon her
attention, and the fact that it was only
accepted after much deliberation is an
excellent guarantee that the work will re-
ceive earnest and even enthusiastic atten-
fion