Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ExEmpress Eugene will spend the
winter at Naples.
Austin Corbir, the prominent employer.
has gone to Europe.
NJ. Eiffei is expected in Quebec shortly
to build 4 $5,000,000 bridge across the St.
Lawrence.
Ex-United States Treasurer Spinner Is
engaged upon book on American finance,
He is SS years old.
The Grand Duke Peter, nephew Of the
Car, will pass the winter in Egypt on ac-
count Of ill-health.
Miss Amelia b. Edwards has over 400
slides specially photographed with which
she illustrates her lectures.
Marie Amalie, the new Queen of Portu-
gal, is only % years Of age. She is tie
daughter OF the Due dOrleans.
The efforts which are making to induce
Oliver Wendell Holmes to write an auto
biography are not likely TO meet with sue
! cess.
The manuscript of Robert Brownings
new volume, to contain about thirty po-
ems, has been sent from Italy to his pub
fishers.
l. c. Lewis, of Merideu, Conn, celebrat-
ed his 77th birthday by giving to local
mission society block of buildings valued
at 81, 900.
Emily Kempen, who took the degree OF
LID. at the University of Zurich, is GO
ing to open a law school for women IN
New York.
Colonel Aldaee W. Walker, Chairman
of the Interstate Railroad Association, is a
strapping six-foot Vermonter, of Unusual
executive ability.
Miss Addie Hamilton, inst appointed by
the President a Notary Public IN Wash
ington, is the second woman ever holding
that position th~re-
Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott is resting at
the home Of her sister, Mrs. Florence
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe intends TO con-
tnue her Western journey to California.
Buffalo Bill has had delightful time
in Paris He has been made a social lion
and has played his cards with success. He
has acquired the knack of making small
talk acceptable, and has learned how to
fiirt.
The Duke of Northumberland recently
presented to the Astor Library four vol
umes Of the annals Of his ancestors, one Of
whom, Lord Percy, served in the attack
/ on Bunker Hill and the storming Of Wash
ington Hights.
At the parting reception given by Johns
town to Clara Barton, Cyrus Elder, on be-
half of the Woman's Branch of the Union
Benevolent Association, presented the Red
Cross heroine a gold locket set with dia-
monds pendant from a pin, also set with
diamonds on a badge of scarlet.
Ward McAllister is said to propose show
ing Stuyvesant Fish and Eldridge L. Gerry
a bail that is ball, and accordingly thinks
of giving a private subscription ball the
night of January ID in the great Stewart
mansion, palace now unoccupied, but
still the gallery of the valuable Stewart
collection Of pictures.
The selection of the Rev. Edward Alb
bot. of North Cambridge, Mass, by the
sionary Bishop of japan is regarded as a
remarkable choice in Boston, where Mr..
Abbot is well known. 1t is said that
Phillips Brooks who has recently visited
Japan, is especially pleased with the Sc
lection of Mr.. Abbot.
John Jacob Astor, said to again con-
template matrimony, sset down by Thomas
G.. Shearmm in the November Forum as
the richest man IN this country, controll-
ing, it is said, $l5000O,000 Wail-street
men say, on the other hand, that Astors
wealth does not reach the Sl00,000,000
mark. Mr.. Astor is 6S, tall, handsome,
vigorous, an accomplished and aristocratic
gentleman.