Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-02
PROMINENT PEOPLE

The author of Robert Elsmere.n l.r..
Humphrey Ward, is engaged upon so-
ciety play.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop and her
talented husband have cottage close bv
the sea at New London.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will vfsi,
Venice for few weeks. and then settle il,
London for the summer.
4 daughter of the novelist, George ".
Cable, himself lover of all beautiful
things, IS studying art, and is said to give
promise Of a brilliant future.
The Empress Dowager Of China. VINO
has ruled that country for twenty-five
years and is now fifty years old, is an &C.
complished archer and boxer.
The fancee of Senator Allison, Miss
Theresa Stoughton, is the daughter Of \.
B. Stoughton Of Washington. She was re-
Gently IN California with Mrs. Eugene
Hale.
The brother of the President, Carter
Harrison of Tennessee, looks like a well
to-do farmer. He is very simple in his
tastes, dresses in rural style and wears =
big slouch hat.
Chief Justice Fuller will preside sJ
Charleston, with District Judge Simonton.
in the famous Clemonson will case. invoIv-
ing the disposal of Fort Hill, John c.
Calhouns homestead.
The talented young woman, Miss Laura
White, who graduated in architecture as
Michigan University, and was the first
woman to complete that course, is now In
full practice in Chicago.
President Carnot asked to be presented
to Perry Belmont in Paris a few DAYS age.
He remarked that MIR. Belmont was one
of the very few men in the world who had
refused the Legion of Honor.
One of the most indefatigable and inter
eSting living writers is Mrs Margaret Oil
phant. Her novels are particularly re-
markable for their accurate painting oC
Scotch characteristics. She Is Scotch her
sell, and is 81 years old.
The late General of the Army. W. T.
Sherman, although, not engaged in any
enterprise of pith and moment, receives
each day a bushel basket full of letters,
They come from all sorts of people and
touch upon every conceivable topic.
The new British Minister Sir Julian
Pauncefote, is being as much dined and
tcted at Washington as if the departed ad-
ministration had not sent his predecessor
home in huff. lie returns to England In
July to bring over Lady Pauncefote and
their four daughters.
A literary association is recalled bv the
comparatively early death of Col. Warter
at Umballa He was the only son of the
most original of Sussex parsons, the Rev,
John Wood Warter, Of West Tarring, who
married Edith, the daughter of Robert
Southey, poet laureate.
Paul Du Chaillu, author and traveller.
has recently returned to London from No
rocco. He has been living near Tangiers
like a native. He is delighted with the
Moors. He says that the world is very
Ignorant Of their good qualities. He will
spend several winters with them and write
book concerning them.
Baron Nordenskiold is about to bring
out an important volume of atlas size cor
tanning some fifty fac-simile reproductions
of old maps, showing how much the an
clients knew OF the earths surface and the
methods they employed to set forth their
knowledge. He has been for several years
engaged on the work in the museums and
libraries of Europe. 1t will appear stimuli
taneously 10 Swedish and English.
Bayard Taylor's first name was James.
Wilkie Collins was christened William
Wilkie Collins. Austin Dobson's full name
is Henry Austin Dobson. Edmund GoSse
has William for a middle name, though he
never uses it. James Brander Matthews,
Samuel Duffield Osborne, James Lawrence
Hutton, and Edward Howard Seely are q
few other titles of writers who curtail
their signatures in print, and Frank Stock
toms name is Francis Richard Stockton in
full.
Antonio Bregazzi, well-known Wash
ington Italian, and veteran retired from
the regular army, who died recently, was
one of the detail of six men ordered to
carry the remains of Lincoln to the White
House from the house on Tenth street, OPP
posite Ford's Theater, where the martyred
President breathed his last Mr.. Bregazzi
bore back to his wife as a souvenir one of
the blood-stained sleeves of Lincoln's shirt.
In the cuff Mrs. Bregazzi found a beautiful
stud with LincoIn's monogram, which she
returned.