Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Queen OF Siam wears one and one
half inch boots.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts,, is now
able to go out and about.
Julia Ward Howe has begun the study
of the Russian language.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has brother
who is missionary in China.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde is one of the most
popular woman orators in England.
Edward Everett Hale is at work upon
his biography of James Freeman Clarke.
A St. Louis man has an old-fashioned
single-bafrel pistol once owned by Carl
baldi.
Mr.. Gladstone wrote a letter to Sarah
Bernhardt sympathlzing with her on the
death of Damala.
The Rev. DIR. George Macdonald feels
the weight of advancing years, and sits in a
chair while he lectures.
The Greek Patriarch of Alexandria, Mgr.
Sophronius, is SO years old, and has been a
priest for seventy years.
The Hon. Redfeld Proctor Secretary of
War, has purchased handsome estate on
-hSil -NSCh, 4hdSo.
1t is said that Mrs. William Waldorf
Astor is setting the 400 the example of
going to bed nightly at 10 o'clock
M. P. Ryan, Collector of Customs for
the Port of Montreal, refuses to admit the
works of Thomas Paine into that city.
Mrs. Forsyth, a celebrated Samoan
beauty, is an American widow. She is Sc
years old and has 100000 acres of land
At the Shah's visit to the Paris Exposi-
tion the finest diamonds shown are said to
have been worn by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
Professor A. S. Hardy of Dartmouth,
the well-known novelist, is making a car
riage tour through the White mountains
Amelia Rives- Chanler is said to use her
own figure as a model for her sculptured
works. She does it with the aid of a
mirror.
Alexander Dumas, the younger, is 76
years old. He began writing at II, and at
26 produced the famous "Dame aux Ca
melias."
Walt Whitman recently said that the
greatest pleasure of his old age has been
the reperusing of the works OF Charles
Dickens
Miss Anna Dickinson announces that
she will soon return to public life. She
says she will probably lecture, and will
certainly go on the stage.
Emperor Francis Joseph has conferred
the honorary Colonelcy of the Seventy
first Austrian Infantry Regiment upon
General Count Won Moltke.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, the popular
authoress, is confined to her home at Pitts
field, Mass, with rheumatic troubles. She
is all but confirmed invalid
Lord Cecil, second eldest son of the Mar
quis of Salisbury, now doing this country,
is so bright and clever that he might pass
anywhere for an American citizen.
NJ. de Lavelye advises Frenchmen to
read Mr.. Bryce's book on America-"the
best since de Tocqueville's7-ino order to
learn wisdom from our experience.
Honore Beaugrand, ex-Mayor of Mon
treal, denies that General Boulanger ever
told him France would settle with Eng
land when she had beaten Germany.
At her beautiful summer retreat on
Peoples Hill, Dorchester, Mrs. Lucy
Stone Blackwell, the editor OF the Woman 5
Journal, recently celebrated her list birth
day.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps-Ward has es-
tablshed at Gloucester, Mass, a fisher
mans reading-room with newspapers and
games. She has also founded several
cofee-rooms at the point.
Hon. Moses Humphrey, of Concord, n.
H., has been President of the State Board
vf Agriculture since its organization
eighteen years ago. He is so years old,
but still one of the most active and vigor-
our business men in the State.
The Browning Society of London, ut
terly unable to discover the symbolical
meaning of the Nymph in the poets
Numpholeptos," has resolved to apply to
Mr. Browning himself for the true clue
1t is not at all improbable that the poet
will tell the inquirers that they can make
what they like out of it.
An auecdote of Dickens is related in tn,
Atkenpum which attests anew his great
kindness of heart. An old servant, sup
| posed TO be faithful, as he had been Ions
| in the novelist's service, robbed him O
about $3.50 to cover some betting losses
and Dickens, instead of letting him go I.
Jail or retaining him on a promise not Il
repeat the offense, retired him on pen
! sion of abont $500 year.