Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

is in i'll health, is now at the Azores.
NJ. Bartholdi will make statue of Gam
beta, to be erected at Vile dAvray.
Amelia B. Edwards, the English author
,ess now lecturing in this country, carries
scarabee ring as a mascot.
Professor John Couch Adams, the cele-
brated astronomer, is seriously i'll at the
Cambridge (Mass.) Observatory.
DIR. William A. Hammond will enter his
new house at Washington next month, and
some great festivities are looked for on that
occasion.
DR.. A. A. Miner is now the senior pas
tor Of Boston, owing to the retirement of
DR.. Bartol from active participation in
pastoral work.
]. r. Burton, of Abilene, Kan, who as
spires to succeed Ingalls, in the National
Senate, is said to be one of the best dressed
men in his State.
DR.. Purinton. Vice-President of West
Virginia University, will succeed DR.. Ga
lusha Anderson as President of Denison
University on December 1st.
G. j. Wolseley, now an Australian, and
brother of Lord Wolseley, has just hoated
on the London market a strengthening
machine capitalized at 81, 100000.
President Csrnot of France is an enthu-
siastic Shakespearean scholar. He has
translated Macbeth" Romeo and Juliet
and "a Winters Tale" into French.
Miss Matte Mitchell, daughter of Sena-
tor Mitchell of. Oregon, will be the hostess
of her fathers home in Washington this
winter, as Mrs. Mitchell is an invalid.
Sir George Grove, the musician, was ed
ucated to be civil engineer, and designed
the first two modern lighthouses erected
by the British Government in the West
Indies.
Prince Louis Napoleon, son of "Plon-
Plon" and younger brother of Prince Vic
tor, has received his commission as Major
in the Russian army, and will go on duty
in the Caucasus.
The late Sir Charles William Skies was
the founder of England's great system
of postoffice savings banks, and it was in
recognition of that important service that
he was knighted.
Nine. Marie was the nurse of King
Otto, of Bavaria, when he was a child,
and is now the only person who can bring
a CLEAN of intelligence to the face of the
unfortunate mad monarch.
Professor John Stuart Blackie cele-
brated his eightieth birthday this year.
He is as buoyant and vivacious as boy in
his tee;s and devotes many hours each
day to his study of ancient history.
The Queen of Italy is growing stout, to
her great distress. She has several times
tried to becomc a vegetarian, in hopes of
reducing her weight, but is too fond of
good living to persevere in such course.
Mrs Mary F. Shendley, of London, the
widow of Captain Shendley, formerly mill
tary attache of the British Legation in
Washington, has Just presented the city of
Pittsburg with 500 acres Of land for
park.
The ex-Empress Engenie is said to be
more than usually infirm this season, and
spends great portion of her time in
silence and meditation, whether in her own
home or visiting at the house of some
friends
Siegfried Wagner, son of the famous
composer, has determined to devote him
self to music He has entered his name
upon the roll of the music school at
Frankfort-on-the-Mai His ambition is
to conduct the performances of his fathers
works at Bayreuth.
A Kentucky friend of the late Colonel
Goodloe is quoted as saying: never
knew Clay who did not carry clasp
knife Henry Clay carried one, and all the
Clays who have come after him carried the
same sort of knife. 1t is the traditional
weapon of the Clay family"
Senator Wolcott of Colorado who is
bachelor, and one of the youngest as well
as richest men in the Senate, has taken
the house in Washington occupied two
winters ago by Miss Mary Gwendoline
Caldwell and her sister Lena, and will
have the finest bachelor establishment in
the town.
Sherman Hoar, rising young lawyer of
Boston, under 80 years of age, has been ap-
pointed to the Trusteeship of Phillips Ex-
eter Academy, in the place made vacant
by the resignation of Professor c. F. Dun
bar, of Harvard. Mr.. Hoar is a son of !
Judge E. r. Hoar, of Massachusetts,, and
a nephew of Senator George F. Hoar.
Powers Fillmore, the only son of Presi
dent Fillmore, is receiving more notice
since his death last week, than he received
for many years before it. He did not
bank upon the fact that he is the son of a
President of the United States, and yet he
was good deal of man, in quiet way.
He was an able lawyer, and was held in
very high esteem at his home city of Buffalo.
A. he was unmarried the Fillmore line
becomes extinct by his death.