Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Two Egyptian princes, sons of the Khe-
dive, are being educated at Vienna.
Jay Gould has an orchid in his con-
servatory at Irvington that is valued at
5000.
Rev. DR.. c. S. Pomeroy, Presbyterian, is
the best paid minister IN Cleveland. His
salary is $4,000.
Captain Ross, the noted Indian fighter
and father of Governor L. S. Ross, is dying
at his home in Waco, Texas.
"To-day," saws NJ. Jules Claretie, "the
home of Edison is enlarged, and, as was
said of Humboldt, Edison's home is the
world"
Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier of New
South Wales, intends, it is said, to intro
duce bill comforting the suffrage upon
women.
The death is announced of the Rev.
Samuel Beal, D. c. L., the distinguished
Oriental scholar and Professor of Chinese
in London University.
Martin Faruuhar Upper, the poet, was
educated for the church, but he suffered
SO badly that he was obliged to give up
the profession.
The Hon. Allen g. Thurman has left
the Virginia Hot Spring and gone home to
Ohio. His health is much better than it
was before his visit to the springs.
II. NJ. Flagler, the Standard Oil mag
nate, who owns the finest private car on
wheels, has just given orders for the most
magnificent yacht that can be built.
Captain Ira Paine, the dead marksman,
his name, although American born. He
was knighted by the King of Portugal for
his craftsmanship.
1t is stated that Prince Albert of
Monaco, who has recently succeeded to the
Principality, is opposed to gambling, and
will use every means in his power to close
the games at Monte Carlo.
The London correspondent of the Leeds
Mercury says that Lord Tennyson devotes
the G200 which he receives annually from
the civil list to the relief of distressed
members of the literary profession.
Colonel James Reid, a Lieutenant in
the Seventy eighth His shlanders at Water
loo, is now in Scotland, visiting the scenes
of his childhood. He has lived in Canada
for the last seventy years, and is So years
old.
The Gar has new train of cars to travel
in. The cars are connected with eath
other by vestibules so that he can pass from
one to another without being seen from the
outside, and they are covered with iron and
cork.
The English medical profession has sus-
tanned severe loss by the death, at the
Habershon, whose career as a student,
practitioner and author was equally dis
tinguished.
Mr.. Edison is arranging scheme, in
company with Herr Siemens, for lighting
Berlin with his electric lights. He ex-
presses himself as delighted with the pro-
gress achieved in Germany in respect to
the telephone and electric illumination.
The young daughter of William Winter,
the well-known dramatic critic, was bap-
tized in Shakespeare's Church, at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon, on August Both. The little
Christian, who was baptized "Viola Rosa
mand," is an unusually beautiful girl of
eight years.
lie DtN. DT. u. II. IeClOF Oh
st. Marks Protestant Episcopal Church,
New York, has resigned after an incum-
bency of nineteen years. Ill health is the
cause. He was born in Manchester, Eng
land. He has had a church both in Chicago
and Cleveland, Ohio.
Mary Anderson is responsible for the
popularity of English shoes among Amer
lean women. Mary's feet are not small, !
but she had the courage to abandon
French footgear for shoes in which she |
could walk comfortably. Her example |
has been widely followed.
Julian Hawthorne, who accompanied |
the Scripps League excursion of Ameri-
can workingmen to the Paris Exposition |
as historian, says that a second and more |
careful study of London leads him to the |
conclusion that there is more vice to the |
square mile in that city than anywhere |
else in the world.
Karl Falkenstein, the inventor of the |
smokeless powder, was a chemist at
Vienna only three years ago. He offered |
his invention TO the Vienna War Office, |
which, with true Austrian faulty, scorn-
fully declined negotiations, so he went off
to Berlin, where the authorities purchased |
his invention for round sum.
Sir Edwin Arnold has received great |
many honors on account of his literary
achievements. Besides being knighted by
his sovereign and receiving the Order of |
the Star of India, he has been invested
with the Order of the White Elephant
by the King of Siam and with the I'm
perial Order of the Medjidie by the Sultan
of Turkey.
The cottage OF Washington occupied for
the past two years by George Kennan
while writing his articles on Siberia, will |
be tenanted this winter by Mrs. J. Stanley
Brown, who, when in the capital before,
was known as Little Molie Garfield"
The Browns are going to live permanently
in Washington, and the young bride
aspires to a prominent position in literary
circles.
James Payne, the popular English nov
elist had tyeuty-six articles rejected in