Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Wilkie Collins left no unfinished novels
except one which he considered unimport-
ant.
Jay Gould holds $40, 100000 of the $780,
100000 of the capital stock of the Western
Union.
Mrs. Hodgson-B Burnett has recovered
from the effects of her recent accident, and
has returned to London.
Colonel Mitchell, an American member
of the Khediye's staff, is in this country on
leave of absence for three months.
Seth Low, President of Columbia College,
has received the degree of Ii. D. from the
University of the State of New York.
The Rev. DIR. Phillips Brooks has Just
completed his twentieth year as pastor of
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Bos-
| ton.
The age of the new members Of the
House of Representatives averge not less
| than 40 years. A generation ago they
thought legislator should be so or 60.
Mrs. U. S. Grant is favorably mentioned
as the successor of Mrs. r. B. Hayes in the
Presidency of the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Church.
Rev. C. A. Bartol, the eminent divine of
Boston, who recently resigned the pastorate
of the old West Church, will spend the
winter in California on account of his
health.
| A woman who, like Charles Dickens
Jenny Wren, made her living by dressing
and repairing dolls died at st. Paul
lately. Hundreds of her little friends are
mourning her loss.
II. NJ Pitt, now member of the Boston
Museum Company, but formerly of Daly's
and the Madison Square, was the youngest
| commissioned officer in the British army
during the Ashantee war.
The London Standard has information
that Stanley will visit the Emperor of
| Germany in Berlin, in accordance with
the Emperor's invitation. Immediately
after his return to London.
Grover Cleveland contradicts the report
that, in association with Joseph Jefferson,
he has purchased an island in Wakely
Lake, near South Sandwich, Mass upon
which to erect clubhouse.
One of Archdeacon Farrar's daughters,
the wife of the head-master of a public
school, has been preaching, it is said, to
large audiences in a barn in rural neigh
borhood in the south of England.
Speaker Reed has made collection of
newspaper pictures of himself, and on his
desk is large pile of these cuts. He
takes pleasure in showing his friends how
many different faces he turns to the pub
lie
John Christopher Schwab, graduate Of
Yale in the class of 'S6, has taken from
one of the leading German universities
the degree of Phi. D. summa cum laude.
This degree is very seldom given, and its
acquisition by foreigner is almost I'M
precedented.
Ignatius Donnelly is said to be disap-
pointed man. He thought to gain great
fame by undermining great man. Shake
speare was great enough, but somehow the
rest Of the programme fell through.
Shakespeare is where he was, but Don
nelly-where is he?
Count Herbert Bismarck brought home
with him from the Orient, it is stated, a
new proverb, which runs "There are
three things with which no man should
play: The fire, because it can burn him;
the viper, because it can sting him;
woman, because she-can love him."
Miss Lizzie Banks, of ST. Paul, who went
abroad as private secretary to Mr.. Hicks,
Minister to Peru, is a courageous little
woman, who made hit as a newspaper
writer in the Northwest. Miss Banks is
believed to be the first lady secretary ever
taken abroad by United States Minis
ter.
There died an interesting character at
Golfers Mills, n. j., recently. 1t was
Captain Christian Emsou, aged 96, and
with fortune estimated at $4,000 900. He
was for many years 4 successful navigator.
He was a Dane, and served in the Danish
navy under Napoleon. His father owned
the white horse ridden by Napoleon.
The Emperor of Russia and the German
Emperor are each having a new yacht
built. The latter's is to be very fast, so
that he may be able from it to command
and direct naval maneuyers-a science in
which his Imperial Majesty believes him.
self past master The Emperor of Rus
sia's boat, which is called the Polar Star,
| is remarkable for nothing except its great
size and magnificent accommodations.
One of the most intellectual heiresses of
Philadelphia is Miss Nina Lea, the daugh-
ter of Henry C. Lea, the well-known pub
| Usher and writer. As there is no one to
| inherit her fathers fortune except
brother, Miss Lea will certainly be blessed
with heavy purse. Her fathers wealth
| is placed at about $S,000,000, and conse-
quently his daughter will step into 81 ,500,-
| 900. She is devoted to intellectual pur-
suits. While her father was busily en-
gagged in writing his famous work on the
"History of the Spanish Inquisition," Miss
Lea became deeply interested in the SUBJ
iect, and it is said assisted her father not a
little in his literary labor.
The oldest officer in the United States
navy is Commodore Henry Bruce, now on
the retired list and living in Boston. lie
was born on February II, 1889, and was
appointed Nlidshipman in the navy from
Massachusetts, on November 9, 1913. Dur
| ing his seventy-six years of life in the
navy he was forty-two years on the active
| list, but had only fifteen years of sea serv-
ice and eight years of shore duty. Three
| of his fifteen years of sea service, from
| 1887 to 1910, were spent as Lieutenant on
the famous old frigate Brandywine in the
Mediterranean squadron and his only
command was the brig Truxton, on the
coast of Africa in 1S4S. His last promo
tion on the active list was to the grade of
Commander on September s, 1871. He
was retired September Is, 1850, but on
April A, 1866, he was promoted TO COM
modore, favor which officers on the re-
tired list no longer have.
A new style of horseshoe has been