Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-19
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

AOsuiNENI IEUILEs
The coronation of the new King Of
Servia will take place in July.
President Harrison and family will visit
Boston in August or September.
Sir John Iubbock's second volume, en-
titled The Pleasures of Life will be is.
sued soon.
William d. Howells, the novelist, will
return to the Hub next month to reside
there permanently.
The Emperor of Austria has lust finished
paying the debts Of the late Prince Rudolf.
They amounted to s., 100000.
Miss Olive Schriener, author of the ia
nous novel "The Story of an African
Farm" has arrived in England.
John G. Whittier dedicated his poem
Miriam to his lifelong friend, the late
President Barnard, of Columbia College.
George w. Childs has consented to loan
Tom Moore's harp to the Scoteh-Irish
Congress which is to meet in Columbia,
Tenn.
Amelie Rives-Chanler has attracted a
great deal of attention in Paris. 1t is said
that Sarah Bernhardt is very anxious to
meet her.
Queen Victoria's travelling railway coach
is built of satin wood and maple, with
white silk hangings, and decorations Of
pure gold.
Word comes of the death of John Kidd,
the last survivor of the passengers of the
Forfarshire, who were rescued by Grace
Darling in 1888.
Henry Morley resigns the Professorship
of English Language and Literature at
University College, London, at the end Of
the present session.
Mr.. Froudes romance, 'sThe Two Chiefs
of Dunboy," and Mrs Burnett's story,
The Pretty Sister of jose have passed
| into second editions.
George Kennan, the celebrated Siberian
traveller, has returned to Washington.
| The summer he will devote to the prepara-
ton OF his book on Siberia.
George II. Jessop, the playwright, has
| gone TO Europe for a two months trip, to
be spent principally in ireland, where he
Will make studies for short stories.
Miss Zalinski, sister of the Lieutenant
who invented the dynamite gun is almost
as good dynamite expert as her brother,
for whom she acts as private secretary.
Lady Randolph Churchill is about to
make her debut in literature, it is said.
with an article in Longman's New RerelJ
on her experiences in Russian society life.
Thomas Seymour Denton has coined the
word : manuprint" noun and adjective, to
describe the work of typewriter. He
calls a typewriter manuscript "a manu-
print"
The geographical society of Bremen has
commissioned DR.. Kuekenthal, of Jena, to
undertake another journey to the Arctic
regions IN order 10 make geological re-
searches.
William Henry Smith, the newsdealer
who furnished the original for ''Sir Joseph
Porter" the ''Pinafore' admiral, will soon
resign his seat in the House of Commons
to accept peerage.
Mrs. Mona Card, who wrote as Mar
riage Failure Y' has given further atten-
ton to the subject, without coming to any
conclusion. Every couple must settle this
matter for themselves.
Charles NJ. Dickinson, of Binghamton,
n. y, whose poem, The Children" won
many admirers for the author, has cel-
lected a volume Of his verse, which will
appear early in June.
Professor Satterlee, of Athens, Tenn,
reports to the Union Signal that during
the last year ne has raised nearly $4,000
as endowment for the chair of scientific
temperance in the college for which he
labors.
The Maharajah of Judpore has ordered
two of his ministers TO discuss the advisa-
bility of abolishing polygamy. AS the
Maharajah has his own harem established
on firm basis, the discussion is apt to be
more theoretical than practical.
Baron Maximilian Washington, rel
ative Of the immortal General and the
present head of one branch of the family,
resides in his Castle of Poels in Stvria.
He is nearly 90 years old and resembles in
personal appearance his great ancestor.
Senator Reagan, of Texas, marched in
the ranks of the Belknap Rifles of San
Antonio when they paraded in New York
on Sunday before starting for their home
He is now past 20, but in the parade
stepped along as briskly as any of the boys.
Belva Lockwood's centennial greeting
as telegraphed to a New York paper was:
"Three cheers for the inaugural centennial.
Twenty-Five years hence we will inaug-
urate a woman. He laughs best who
laughs last" "Hope springs eternal" was
evidently written for Belva.
Many are the detractors of Charles Dick
ems, but his amanuensis has given him the
most bitter blow of all. In an interview
published some time since he SAYS: "He
tDickens) was an Unsuitable cigarette
smoker, and when debating to me always
had cigarette in his mouth
Mr.. Gladstone's ancestors, it appears,
were pirates. In 1865 a company of ad-
venturers sent out the George, Of Glasgow,
fully equipped as privateer, to prey on
the Dutch mercantile marine, and Hal
bert Gladstone, merchant in Edinburgh"
was one of the co-adventurers. From the
gentleman-buccaneer the English Liberal
statesman is descended.
The home of Henry G. Marquand on
Madison avenue, New York, is said to be
the handsomest private residence in Amer
lea, not even excepting that Of the Van
derbilts There are rooms in Mr.. Mar
quands house that cost hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars to decorate and furnish.
OF these the japanese room is the most
famous. There are beside this a Moorish
room, an Italian room, and a Greek room.
The King of Spain, Alfonso MI, not
yet three years old, is rosy-cheeked, fair
child of bright disposition and more than
ordinary quickness and curiosity for his
age. He has been taught 10 give mill
tary salute, and his greatest delight is to
witness the relief of the guard from the
palace windows at 10 in the morning. Old
courtiers say he has strong likeness to
the Bourbon portraits in the Madrid Mu-
scum.