Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

England
Sir Morrell Mackenzie is strongly op-
posed to the use of tobacco and alcohol by
people who use their voices in public.
President Dwight of Yale is trying to
| find some rich alumnus who will build
new dormitory, which the university much
needs.
When walking out the Empress of Russia
always carries large fan, with which to
screen her face from those who stare rudely
at her
Mr.. Gladstone says that he brought his
| children up without restraint. "They
have never been governed at any period
of their lives by force"
Parker Pillsbury, the Abolitionist and
Reformer, recently celebrated his SOth
birthday anniversary. He is in vigorous
| physical and intellectual health.
Nine. de Grouchy, the widow of the
| Marshal who lost the battle of Waterloo
| for Napoleon by not coming in time to it,
| died at Pau, June 18th. She was Sc.
Grouchy died in 1915.
Fred Douglass, the recently appointed
| Minister to Hayti, is not only the most
famous, but he is one of the wealthiest
colored men in the United States. His
| wealth is estimated at 100000.
Colonel A. Loudon Snowden, who has
! been made Minister-Resident and Consul
| General in Greece and Roumania, still
fingers at Philadelphia, and there are
| those who say that he will be made Post
master there.
A man with an income of $10,000,000 a
| year is Colonel John Thomas North, who
| has great nitrate mines and factories in the
| far South, in Chile. Colonel North is at
present scattering some of his superiuous
wealth in New York city.
Voigtlander, a famous optician of Bruins
! wick, has just perfected new lens, giving
very wide angle, working with large
| aperture. Thus it is very rapid, and can
be used in very confined situations, such
as rooms for groups and single portraits.
The Yale stroke, Caldwell, has officiated
/ for ten college crews, and has never suf-
! fered defeat. He has decided not to re-
| turn to the theological school, but will 60
into business for himself He thinks he
could "practice" better than he could
preach.
| Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the
! great English statesman and President of
! Newman College, Cambridge, contends
! that the full cultivation of woman's intel
! lectual powers has no tendency to prevent
her from properly discharging domestic
duties.
Outside of those in public Office there
are four persons in the United States who
| are entitled to send and receive mail mat
ter free of postage. They are the widows
of Presidents Polk, Tyler, Garfield and
Grant. The privilege is granted by spe-
cial Act of Congress.
Ex-Secretary Bayard has signifed to
! friend that he does not wish to be Gov
ernor of Delaware, and, when officially APP
preached on the subject, says he will posi-
| lively decline the nomination, and exert
his influence in behalf of ex-Congressman
/ Williams, of Kent county.
! Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is accepted
by those who know as one of the best cooks
in New York. He is said to be a gourmet
of the highest altitude, and his friends say
he prepares with his own hands the big
gest part of the menu at the private din
ners he gives at his home.
Miss Mary Wanamaker, the Postmaster
Generals daughter, will make her debut
in Washington society next fall. She is
not yet out of her teens, but is an accom-
plished girl of considerable beauty. She
has had the training of an excellent edu-
cation, and is skilled IN music and Ian
guages.
Society in Munich is at present excited
over the determination of young Japanese
woman, who has played social role in the
Bavarian capital. Miss Toki Mardira, the
daughter of one of the highest families of
the Empire of the Mikado has decided to
take the veil, and next month will enter
the Convent of the Sisters of Chenfailles.
This is said to be the first instance of the
kind on record.
Pundita Ramabai writes to Lend Hand
of a nineteenth century miracle" Con-
trary to all precedent and prejudice, the
orthodox Hindoos of Barsi invited this
"Christian outcast" not only to enter their
sacred temple, but also to speak and read
therein a portion of the Hindoo scriptures.
Not only men, but women were present,
and all received this innovation with ex-
pressions of marked approval.
The correspondent of the Austrian Poll
tische Correspondent at the Vatican says
that there have been exaggerated reports
about the Pope's growing feebleRess, the
truth being that for a man in his seventy
ninth year he is remarkably healthy and
active. His doctor, however, recently
used a pious stratagem to prevent him
from occupying the casino of Plus ". in
the gardens OF the Vatican, which is con-
sidered damp and unhealthy.
The report has recently been current
that Chief Justice Fuller has fitted up
Iceland Castle" at New-Rochelle, n. Y,
for summer residence. This is incorrect.
Nh Fuller has brother, Henry
Weld Fuller, two years his senior, man
of wealth, who was for thirty years one of
the leading druggists of the West. Three
years ago H. w. Fuller's health sue
cumbed under great financial strain, and
he sold out his entire stock to
his partner, allowing him to retain
the well-known name of the firm. Since
that time he has been living quietly with
his wife and son at the Park Avenue
Hotel. He it is who has fitted up the
"Castle" for his son, III. Frederick Fuller,
to open collegiate institute for young
ladies, and he is now residing at the
"Castle" with his wife and daughter.
Prlnce LudWlg, son OF the Bavarlan he
gent, and probable successor to the throne,
greatly admires England, which country
he has visited twice. Speaking at the
Munich Athletic Clubs festival the other
day, he said; "At my first visit to Eng
land | went there as Prince was re-
ceiyed with all the respect given to men of
station. | was taken hither and thither,
and was shown everything which was held
to be the proper thing for Prince to see,
and had the advantage of being accom-
panied by distinguished persons. Still l
did not see the English people as have
seen the Bavarian folk. So | went again
to England as private man, and walked
about everywhere incognito. Well, have
learned double as much of England and
her people by studying them simply as a
man than l learned about them when they