Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

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the Duke of Salisbury.
Secretary Blaine has spent twenty-eigh
years of his life in Washington and ha'
never Joined a club.
Edward Atkinson gives it up. "No one
yet knows or can measure the productive
capacity of single acre of land anywhere
he says in the August Forum.
The sum which Messrs Longmans, the
| London publishers, have agreed to pay te
DIR. Nansen for his forthcoming book OF
his experiences in Greenland is said to be
e2,500.
Count Tolstoi is doing no writing al
present, because, he says, he has quit smok.
ing. In the old days he smoked much
the smoking stimulated his brain and he
wrote freely.
Professor Boyesen thinks that Tolstois
| Gamma Karenina" entities him to be called
the greatest novelist living. He says he
has read no other book so moral in tone
| and SO truthful as the one named.
Thomas A. Edison has gone to Europe
for the purpose of getting view of the
Paris Exposition and of the way in which
his various inventions are displayed there.
He is accompanied by his wife, who is the
daughter of another inventor.
j. C. Whitaker, the colored youth who
acquired such widespread notoriety on ac-
count of his ear when at West Point, and
who Is now member of the Sumter, S. c.,
bar, has been elected Principal of the Col
ored Graded School in that city
The late Professor Alexander Johnston,
of Princeton, left the complete MS. of a
second "History of the United States" Its
plan somewhat resembles that of his former
valuable textbook, but ii is suited to a
shorter course and less mature minds.
By the will of the late Theodore D.
Woolsey, ex-President of Yale College,
such books from his library in Latin,
Greek and German as the committee of
the Yale University Library may select
are given to that institution. There were
no other public bequests, his property
having been divided among the members
of his family.
Ex-President Cleveland is peculiar as a
fisherman. Not only does he possess both
patience and luck, but he has gained re-
markable skill is manipulating a rod and
and line. But the strange feature of his
piscatorial pursuits lies in the fact that he
is superstitious. He never permits his
left hand to rest in front of his right on
the rod. Furthermore, he never expects
10 catch fish if he has seen the new moon
over his left shoulder the night before.
He was equally superstitious regarding his
political luck, and never began an i'm
portant message or speech on Friday.
Lieutenant Tappenbeck, the African
explorer, has died of fever in Camaroons
He and Lieutenant Kund together dis
tinguished themselves in the Congo valley
by striking out overland through the
country, while every previous explorer
had confined himself to the water-courses.
The result was that Tappenbeck and Kund
gave us about all the information we yet
possess about large extent of savanna
and forest-covered country stretching
northeast from the Portuguese possessions
to Lake Leopold II They discovered the
large lkatta river, which is walled III for
hundreds of miles by great forests, and
which Van Gele has recently ascended in
q steamer.
Captain L. G. Shepard, the Commander
of the revenue cutter Rush, whose
recent seizures of sealing vessels in Behring
Sea are attracting attention, is native of
Massachusetts,, and has been in the Rev
enue Marine Service since 1866. He has
served through all the grades, from Third
Lieutenant to Captain, and has been
stationed at all the important ports from
Boston to Galveston. For a number of
years he was stationed at New York on
-the Grant and in command of the revenue
nf1ffa lNauhipntp,, lNI.,,
be Captain he was placed in command of
the training bark Chase at New Bedford.
It is related of him that, when journeying
North few years ago on the steamer Rio
Grande, he showed great coolness when
the vessel was found to be on fire, tender
ing his services to the officers, assisting in
allaying excitement, and taking charge of
the quarterboat that eventually transferred
the ladies and children from the steamer.
In summer Louis Kossuth lives at a
villa near Rivoli, in winter in the Via del
Mile, at Turin, and is always accompanied
by his sister, who adores him. His two
sons are employed in different departments
of the Italian Administration, away from
their father, hJm, however, they visit oc-
casionally. Many Hungarians live in
Turin, and in the winter evenings Louis
kossuth's drawiBg-room, which is full of
patriotic souvenirs, is the scene of much
lively conversation, almost always turning
on Hungarian affairs. At II o'clock the
General retires to bed, rising early in the
morning, when his first business is to read
all the newspapers, which are sent to him
in quantities from his native country. For
| several years he has been busy writing his
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slowly, because the writer often allows
himself to fall into reveries, recalling past
times, and he sometimes remains for
hours thus absorbed, without writing a
line, and when his sister comes to beg him
to rest, she finds the sheet of paper before
him still empty. And the good old man,
with his white hair and vivacious eyes.
smiles, rises from his chair, and, taking hi,
sisters arm, walks up and down the room.
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