Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

| Inc queen OF Italy is Salu 10 De very
much interested in Volapuk.
Judge Allison of the Philadelphia Court
OF Common Pleas has been on that bench
for thirty-eight years.
By the death OF Sir Percy Florence Shell
ley the title is removed from the poets di-
rect line of descendants, and it now goes to
a cousin.
Senator Allison of Iowa is about to marry
Miss Theresa Stoughton, niece of Senator
Hale of Maine, and the wedding will take
| place shortly.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Stanley Brown, the
latter the daughter of the late President
Garfield, will make their horne in Wash
ington this season.
Miss Rachael Cameron, the youngest
of Senator Don CameIon's grown daugh-
tiers, will make her debut in Washington
society this season.
The Universalist Church Missions in
Yokohama will hereafter be in charge of
the Rev. George L. Perrin, pastor of the
Shawmut Church in Boston.
Miss Susannah NJ. Dunklee was the first
woman to become bank treasurer in the
United States, which position she has
creditably filled for the past fifteen years.
The wife of Judge Brewer, the newly
appointed Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, is Vermont lady.
She was married to Judge Brewer in 1861.
Miss Ellen Green has been travelling for
a Western paint house for the past eight
years, and is considered one of the best
paid and most successful drummers in the
country.
The Grand Duke of Oldenburg has writ
ten three-act drama, entitled ''Schloss
Parad." 1t will be brought out at the
theater of Presburg, Germany, at the
authors expense.
Since his recent marriage, Meissonier
seems to have lost his ambition. He spends
a very few hours day in his studio, and
does great deal of aimless sketching and
daubing while there.
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt is asserted by
the London newspapers to have purchased
from the young Earl of Dudley Turner's
masterpiece, "The Grand Canal, Venice"
for the sum of $4,000.
A number of prominent English writer's
are gathering literary materials in remote
localities. Rider Haggard has gone to
Asia Minor, Robert Louis Stevenson is in
the South Seas, and Sir Edwin Arnold is
between here and India.
The Pope has received a bequest of
e6S0,000 from Baron Lilienthal. The lat
ter was by extraction a Jew, and made
money in the Union Generate speculation,
and his desire was to render the Pope indie
pendent of Peters pence. The will will
very likely be disputed.
Oscar Dickson, Gothenberg merchant,
already famous as generous patron of
Arctic explorations offers to defray the
expenses of a new expedition to the North
Pole if DR.. Frithjof Nansen, who COM
manded the recent Greenland expedition,
will accept the leadership.
Arthur Collins Maclay, author of
"Mito Yashiki," tale of feudal Japan, is
New York lawyer. He is the son of
Methodist missionary, was born in Japan,
graduated from Wesleyan University in
the class of rs, and was for several years a
teacher in Japan. He is not forty years OF
age.
President da Fonseca, of the Brazilian
Provisional Government, is not well edu-
Gated, and is hardly known at all in the
distant provinces of Brazil. In appearance
he is short, sinewy and dark complexioned.
His eyes are bright, and he wears a gray
moustache and beard. His manner is ve-
hement.
Colonel Charles S. Forbes, of St. Adams,
VT, who has been appointed Deputy Col
lector of Internal Revenue for that State,
is only 3S years old, but has for nearly
twenty years been conspicuous in tews-
paper work in Vermont and elsewhere and
has long been leader in military, political
and social life.
A Louisville, KY, man, who is well ac-
quainted with the Caldwell family, says
that the wealth of Miss Gwendoline Cald-
well has been greatly exaggerated. She is
not believed, according TO this authority,
to be worth more than 100000, and that
when she offered to settle $4,000 year
upon Prince Murat, she offered him nearly
one-half her income.
The heart of Queen Marie of Bavaria
was removed from her body soon after her
death at Munich, several months ago, and
embalmed according to custom which
has prevailed in the royal house since the
middle ages. Recently it was placed in a
silver urn and taken with much pomp and
ceremony to the ancient Chapel of our
Lady of Mercies, where it now rests in a
! niche of the chaneel wall near the hearts
of Kings and Queens who died centuries
ago.