Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-07
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Chief Justice Fuller attended COM
mencenent exercises at Cornell.
George Macdonald is lecturing and
preaching in the north of England.
NJ. Dumas wept with emotion when he
saw Nine. Bernhart play Lena Despard.
Professor Mommsen is in Brussels, en-
gagged chiefly upon researches among the
numlsmatic collections in the Royal Lii
brary.
The fortune of the richest man in New
South Wales, Sydney Burdekin, began in
pawnbroking. He is worth several million
pounds.
No pessimist is old Professor Blackie.
He says that century ago was a time of
miserable humbug and he is thankful that
he lives in better days.
Hjalmar Hiorth Boyesen is lecturing in
the East on George Eliot and the modern
novel. Notwithstanding his name, Mr..
Boyesen is not a literary jay.
Senator Edmunds, born student and
bred scholar, looks much more like the
general storekeeper, so striking are the
apparent contradictions of the world.
NJ. Eitfel, whose name has been exalted
by his great tower, is 81 years old. His
real name is said to be Bonickhausen, and
his reasons for changing it are unknown.
James Edwin Vardeman, who died re-
Gently near Sparta, Ga could repeat the
names of all the Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress from the beginning of
the Government.
Captain Z. l. Zalinski, inventor of the
dynamite gun, and the Rev. r. w. Ken
yon, of New York, were among the Ameri-
cans presented at the Court of St. James at
the Queens levee.
Orlow w. Chapman, of Binghamton,
n. y, recently appointed Solicitor Cen
general to the Treasury, is one of the
handsomest men in public life He is
tall, imposing and dignifed.
Mary Anderson can be seen every morn
ing walking about Hampstead Heath, and
later to be seen vending her way to the
little Catholic Church for her morning de-
votion. She is said to look much better.
President Harrison has discharged
nearly all the colored servants of the
White House. Hawkins, the colored
driver of the Presidential carriage during
the last two Administrations, is the last
to go.
Sir Francis Cook, the venerable Eng
lishman with a Portuguese title, who is
now the husband of Tennie C. Clafin,
denies the story that he is preparing to
secure a divorce from his gifted wife. Sir
Francis is 20 years of age and is quite
wealthy.
When General Lew Wallace strides up
| Broadway he does not look like a man
who fought in the Mexican war over forty
years ago, though he looks old enough to
be veteran of our civil war His eve is
piercing, his movement is light, and his
spinal column is unbent.
Mrs. Wanamaker has brought home
many pleasant souvenirs of her visit to Eu-
rope. The purpose OF her residence abroad
was the education of her daughters, and
the time, consequently, was chiefly spent
in Paris, though brief sojourn was made
at Carlsbad and other places.
The remains of Mrs. Diana C. Ekin.
wife of General Ekin, were buried at Cave
Hill Cemetery, at Louisville, in lot Sc
lected by the Secretary of War for General
Ekin's family. This is said to be the first
time that the remains of woman were
laid in cemetery devoted to the soldier
dead.
Captain Evan p Howell of the Atlanta
Constitution, who is capital story-teller,
illustrated the persistent industry of the
Chattanoogans by an anecdote of a man in
Georgia who kept bees, and, not satisfied
with their proverbial industry, actually
attempted to cross them with lightning
bugs In order to secure a continuation of
honey-making through the night.
Count Ladislaus Platter, one of the last
surviving Polish combatants of 1880, died
on the 23d of April at Kapperswyl, near
Zurich, where he had converted his house
into kind of Polish museum. On the
suppression of the rising of 1880, he at first
went to England, where he exerted him
self to enlist sympathy for his unfortunate
countrymen. In 1888 he started news
paper in Paris He took part also in the
rising of 1868, and then settled in Switzer-
land.
General John c. Fremont has Just re-
turned to New York from a trip to the far
West, and is getting ready, he says 10
make another one. The Pathfnder" is
now nearly so years old, and his closely
trimmed beard is snowy white, but his
! figure is erect and his manner active He
makes his home at Los Angeles, Cal,
where he has fine ranch, and where his
wife, Jessie Benton Fremont, is engaged in
writing life of Kit Carson, the famous
scout and prairie ranger, who led him
over the Rockies.
Ex-Minister to France, Robert NJ Nc
Lane, is now at his home in Baltimore.
He says that the French people are Re-
publicans at heart, that Boulanger will
remain popular with them so long as he
is Republican, and that he will lose his
popularity if he joins forces with the
Monarchists. He further says that nobody
could undertake to say what the sentence
of the Senate, now trying General Bou-
langer for political conspiracy, will be,
but the general impression is that he will
be found guilty.
George Law of New York, who spends
so much money in making presents to his
friends, is not only President of two city
surface railroads, but of the East River
Ferry Company as well. 1t is mistake
to suppose that he does nothing but drink
wine and give away diamonds to popular
pugilists. Business and hard work are
among his chief delights. He is a good
gymnast, about 54 years old, hale and
hearty, and can turn handspring with
any of the youngsters even now. Mr.. Law
is believed to be worth $10,000,000.
The Emperor William has presented
Prince Bismarck with magnificent mas
tiff of the pure Ulm breed, to replace the
Chancellor's recently deceased pet. The
animal is named Tamerlane, and, as he
has not been trained to live in the house,
he is very unruly, and the other day he
terrified Princess Bismarck by growing
because she suddenly entered the Chan
cellor's library. Prince Bismarck began
by claiming Tamerlane to table, but
when the Chancellor left his chair the
dog gave leap and brought the table and
everything on it crashing to the ground.
1t is announced, says the London World,
that Mrs. Maxwell-Scott of Abbotsford is
preparing for the press some hitherto un-
published journals of Sir Walter Scott.
The fact is not generally known that Lock
hart's delightful "Life" does not contain
the half of Sir Walters diary, as, after
consultation with Dean Milman, he de-
cided that it would be wrong then to pub
lish the greater portion of it; and it may
safely be assumed that, as is usually the
| case the suppressed passapes are even