Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-04
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Her Won Horig Kruger, the Berlin edi-
tor who obtained and published the diary
of Emperor Frederick, and had to flee the
country after the con6scation of his prop
erty, has settled in New Haven, Conn,
with his family.
At the royal garden party recently Mr..
and Mrs. Gladstone met the Queen after
an interval of three years. Her Majesty
had taken no notice of them during that
period, but received them on this occasion
in the most affable and cordial manner"
Professor Alexander Graham Bells cat
amaran house-boat contains two spacious
parlors, big dining-room, billiard room,
and numerous bedrooms, besides bathrooms.
kitchen, servants rooms, etc. 1t is pro-
PEELED by steam, with two screws, and
makes fifteen miles an hour.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Min
lister at Washington, is a noted Bibilophite
and never misses a rare volume if it can
be purchased. Just now he is gathering
books about American peculiarities. The
shrewd official is probably fitting himself
to avoid the fate of his predecessors.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the President of
Newman College, Cambridge, makes a
statement calculated to create a tumult
among the married men who take the OPP
posite view. Miss Gladstone SAYS: "The
full cultivation of women's intellectual
powers has no tendency to prevent them
from properly discharging domestic duties.
At recent Royal ball In London the
young Duchess of Portland wore heauti.
ful white and silver brocade gown, trimmed
with silver thistles; necklace of pearls
and sapphires, and a diamond and sapphire
tiara. 1t was really amusing to see the
Duke watch her dance with Prince Albert
Victor, so proud was he OF the admiration
shescommanded.
When Thomas Carlysle once imperti,
nently asked: "What great or noble thing
has America ever done ~ somebody re-
piled: "She has produced a girl deaf
dumb and blind from infancy, who, from
her own earnings, has sent barrel of -four
to the starving subjects of Great Britain
in Ireland The girl was, of course, the
late Laura Bridgman.
Probably no more gorgeous entertain
ment by private person has been given
IN England than the sciree in honor of the
ASldLi, given DN AtDtTt ESdSDOu. lie
took the Empire Theater, hung it with
flowers, and invited 1900 guests, who
turned out ia their most expensive style
and made an unprecedented company
Sir Albert is Bombay Jew.
NJ. Jules Grevy has emerged from his
palatial solitude in the Avenue de Jena.
and has been seen walking quietly through
the Exhibition and examining with evil
dent interest the varied and brilliant won
ders of the show. A few persons, here and
there, who recognized the ex-President of
the Republic, saluted him, bat beyond this
little notice was taken Of his presence.
A catalogue of one of the chief dealers
of London shows the following valuations
for autograph notes: Sarah Bernhardt, u
shillings; Boswell, 6 guineas; Byron, IL
guineas; Coleridge, 60; De Quincy, 2
guineas; Dickens, Ct rs. 3D.; Lord Bea-
consisted, 81 los; David Garrick, "a
" Frederick the Noble" G1; VIM. Goodwin
Gounod, Charles kean, Lever, Macready,
Lyttoh, Sturgeon, or Prince Albert, half a
guinea; VIM. Blake, sc; Cowper. "a
Queen Elizabeth, cps; Thomas Hood, s
guineas; johnson, &c Is. 3D.; Mary Queen
of Scots, e5S Samuel Richardson, e6 los;
Dante Gabriel Rosetti, guineas; "Vic-
toria R." e 5s.; William HI, e5 los.
William ", 60; George Whitefeld, 8
guineas; Wordsworth, 8 guineas; Young,
4 guineas. A similar catalogue issued in
Paris offers Balzac at 10 francs Boulan-
ger, s francs Baudelaire, IS francs; Cha
teaubriand, Is francs; Corneille and Alfred
de Musset, 60 to 100 francs; Berlioz, :
francs; Victor Hugo, . francs; Button, 10
francs; Coligny, Is francs; either of the
Dumas, 2 or 3 francs; Joseph Scaliger. so
franrS Il