Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Henri Matthew, one of Napoleon's vet
Grams, has Just died in New York.
Nine Sarah Bernhardt says she has Just
paid off the last of $240,000 of debts.
Governor Fifer, of Illinois, is to deliver
the Decoration Day oration at Aledo.
Herr George Ebers, the novelist, is a
hopeless and greatly-suffering invalid
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, the distin-
guished Bostonian, was so years old May
18th.
Miss Emily Faithful now gets pension
OF $3.50 a year from the English Govern
ment.
The German Emperor and Empress will
spend the summer chiefly at Reichenhall,
Bavaria.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has begun
the publication of her "reminiscences in the
Woman's Tribune.
Arthur l.. Thomas, the new Governor
of Utah, was at one time telegraph mes
senger boy in Pittsburg.
The baby King of Spain is going to the
Paris Exposition in June. He will be the
youngest monarch who ever visited that
city.
Mrs. Spurgeon, wife of the celebrated
London preacher, sends books TO poor
country clergymen and bonnets to their
wives.
Mrs. Mcclellan, widow of General Geo.
B. Mcclellan, has rented house in Lon
don, and will spend the season there with
her daughter.
The SEVENTEEN birthday of Walt Whit
man, who has long been called the ''good,
gray poet" will be pleasantly celebrated
at Camden, May 51st.
Ex-Attorney-General Garland has had
i good luck since he hung out his shingle in
Washington in corrailing more law cases
than he can take care of.
Mrs. Evelyn O. Tome has been elected
President of the Tome Seminary for Girls,
| at Detosit, Nd, recently founded by gift
Of Sl,000,000 from Jacob Tome.
George Bancroft, the venerable his
(, to-ian, has advertised the sale Of his rid
ing horse, as he has become too old and
feeble to take further equestrian exercise.
The Hon. W. C. P Breckenridge, Of
| Kentucky, is to deliver the address at the
dedication of the national monument to
the Forefathers at Plymouth, Mass, Au-
gust lst.
John Burroughs, the author, has not
eaten meat for three years. He finds tha,
his nerves are much steadier than they
used to be, and that he needs less physical
exercise.
The Kings of Belgium, Saxony, Greece
and Servia will visit the Paris Exhibition
so the Figaro asserts, and the Prince ol
| Wales will make quite a itate at the
French capital.
David Dudley Field, who has Just re.
turned, improved in health, from Egypt
and Europe, received while on the Nile
news that the University Of Edinburgh had
given him the degree of LII. d.
Miss Arnold, the sister of Mrs. Hum
phrey Word, is the original Rose in
Robert Elsmere." The resemblance be-
! tween the two sisters is great, but Miss
Arnold is taller than Mrs. Ward.
Mrs. Harrison, it is said, has personally
besought the newspaper correspondents at
! Washington to refer to her as seldom rs
possible, and they have endeavorcd as far
as possible to comply with her wish.
The British Customs authorities col
lected full duty on the Australian silver
casket sent by the women of South Aus
tralia as silyer-wedding gift to the Prince
of Wales. The age Of chivalry is past.
The sister of Sir Charles Russell, Miss
Mary B. Russell, was the pioneer Sister of
Mercy on the Pacific coast. At present
she has under her charge hospital, a
Magdalen asylum and schools near San
| Francisco.
The real reason for the sudden depart
ure of Senator Cameron for Europe is said
to have been the state of his health. He
has been threatened with recurrence of
a trouble which caused him great distress
a few years ago.
A story is told illustrative of John
Bright's perseverance, to the effect that on
: one occasion he struck salmon on Satur-
day and did not bring it to land before the
people were going to church on Sunday.
This is certainly very noble fish story.
Among the many good works of the
Queen of Saxony is her education OF
women of all ranks to be nurses. In 1867
she summoned the women of Dresden to
meet her in council, and at the end of a
year there were 1,200 nurses ready for
service.
! The veteran traveller, reformer and New
Yorker, Albert Brisbane, now so years of
age, has arrived in Paris from Algiers.
, He has been exploring some parts of
northern Africa which he had not previ-
ously visited, and has thus shown his con-
tinued interest, at this time of his life, in
those adventures which he began in his
younger years.
/ George Rutledge Gibson has been elected
fellow of the Royal StatisticalS ociety of
England. He is one of the six Americans
now fellows of that society, among whom
are David A. Wells, Francis A. Walker
and Edward Young. Mr.. Gibson is an
! active broker on Wall street, and the off,
cial historian of the Consolidated Stock
and Petroleum Exchange.
civilian Dean Howells is one of the
neatest men in the world of letters" says
Current Literature. "His study is as
daintily ordered as a lady's boudoir,
and his dress is immaculate, but he
cannot induce his thick, grayish-brown
hair to remain in the state of smooth
ness for which he endeavors to reduce it,
and, rumpled over his broad forehead, it
gives him singularly youthful appear
ance. He is rather un-American looking
on the whole; dark, with heavy features
and very deep eyes beneath dropping lids
but which light up wonderfully. as indeed
the whole face does, when he is sconversing.n
At recent meeting of the curators Of
the Kentucky University it was unaui-