Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

President Carnot writes poetry for
private use.
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, is
so years old.
Matthew Gibbs, North Carolinian,
died at the age of los years the other
day.
Mrs. Manning, wife of the late Secre-
tary Manning, is spending the summer in
Switzerland.
King Milan of Servia, when abdicating,
reserved his rights as the senior General
in the Servian army.
Ex-Minister Strauss, who has Just re-
turned from Turkey, says that there are
500 American schools in that country.
Miss Daisy Hampton, daughter of Cen
eral Wade Hampton, is reported to have
entered a New York hospital to become
nurse.
The Empress of Germany will make her
first visit, in company with her husband,
to Rome in the fall. She will spend some
time also in Greece.
Professor Edward G. Coy, instructor in
Greek at Phillips Academy, at Andoyer,
Mass, has accepted the principalship of
Phillips Academy at Exeter.
Glasgow University has conferred the
honorary degree of Ii. D. upou Herr
Joseph Joachim, who is already Doctor
of Music of both Oxford and Cambridge.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the Sun. has
fully recovered from the injuries received
while driving at West Island, near Glen
Cove, Long Island, where his summer resi-
dence is situated.
General Lloyd Bryce, to whom the late
Allen Thorndike Rice bequeathed ffty-one
one-hundredths of the North american Re
rielg, has acquired the remainder of the
property, and is now the sole proprietor of
the magazine.
Lord Lonsdale is now living the most
domestic Of lives with his wife, who has
apparently forgiven and forgotten the past.
Assisted by the Countess, Lord Lonsdale is
preparing a book on his adventures in the
Arctic regions.
Lewis Miller, the fa:her-in-law of Edi-
son, the inventor, is, next to Bishop Vim
cent, the leading man in developing the
Chautauqua idea. Mr.. Miller is we'll
built, solid-looking gentleman, with
gray beard and joyial face. He is an
Ohioan.
1t is said that the chief reason why lit
tie King Alexander was only anointed,
and not crowned, was the somewhat humil
iating fact that the cost of crown and
the rest of the insignia of royalty were be-
yond the means at the disposal of the
Seryian Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Jules Simon, the eminent French states
man, has quiet dignity, ease, a cool head,
and the faculty to simulate warmth and
genuine emotion. As speaker he steers
clear of defamation, and can draw at
will on veins of irony and sarcasm, which
he gently infuses and as if in casual
way.
Deborah Powers, the senior partner in
the bank of d. Powers & Sons, Lansingburg,
n. Y, is the oldest banker in the coun-
try. This venerable, but active woman, is
SO years old. She is in full possession of
her faculties, and her business shrewd-
ness is as remarkable as it was a gener-
alton back.
Elaborate preparations are being made
at Hartford, Conn, for repetition OF the
historical pageant of national victories
which was recently displayed in Boston.
1t is to be presented in honor of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe some time late in
September. 1t is also announced that
similar demonstration will be made at
Newport on August 18th in honor of Julia
Ward Howe.
at is possible" says London Truth,
g that the widowed Crown Princess may
yet become Empress of Austria, for
the Archduke Francis, the heir-presump-
tive to the throne, is well known to be
absolutely devoted to her, and his great
object in life is to marry her. The Arch
duke was born in December, 1868, and he
is therefore only FIVE months older than
the Crown-Princess Stephanie"
Vice-AdmiIal Count Charles Bombelles,
Master of the Household to the late Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria, died recently
at Rodaum, near Vienna, in his fifty
seventh year. There can be no doubt that
the Crown Princes death hastened that of
his adherent. Count Bombelles had a
troop of friends, and until the Grown
Prince died, no enemies. Then scape-
goat had to be found, and Admiral Bonn
bellies was dismissed from his high station.