Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Queen Victoria now weighs 1913 pounds.
A sen of DeQuincey is Sergeant-at-arms
in the New Zealand Parliament.
Mr.. Spurgeon is troubled more than
tion of retiring from the ministry, as has
been reported.
Howard Seely, the Brooklyn author, has
just recovered from an attack of intermit-
tent fever. He is said to be at work on
another novel.
1t is announced that Queen Victoria will
be unable to go to Dublin in the spring.
The Prince of Wales will be asked TO open
the art museum.
Professor c. V. Riley has been made a
Chevalier of the Legion Of Honor by the
French Government, in recognition of his
researches in economic entomology.
Miss Milla F. Upper, graduate of
Cornell, who has accepted call to the
pastorate of the Unitarian Church at La
Porte, is the only woman pastor in Indiana.
Lord Tennyson devotes the pension of
1000 year which he receives as poet
laurate to the relief of members of the
literary profession who are in pecuniary
distress.
Louis Morris, of London, is said to be at
work on a new poem after the manner of
1.-The Epic of Hades." 1t deals with the
lives of saints and martyrs, ending with
Father Damien.
General Lebrun, of Franco-Prussian war
fame, who died in France October 7th,
commanded the Twelfth Corps of Mac
Mahon's army at the battle of Sedan,
where he was taken prisoner.
The Rev DIR. Mcleod, pastor for several
years of the Presbyterian Church in Indi-
annapolis which President Harrison at
tended, has accepted call to the First
Congregational Church, at Albany, N. Y.
Seth Low, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, born
in 1850, and Columbia graduate, has
been elected President of Columbia Col
lege to succeed the late President Bar
nard. He is prominent man in every
way.
On the occasion of the marriage of the
Duke of Sparta with the German En-
peror's sister great fetes will be held in the
Acropolis, and amid the ruins of the Tenn
pie of Minerva will be held great ban
quet.
Princess Louise's favorite diversion Just
now is glass painting, and she is at present
engaged upon a window which Mr.. Camp
bell. of Loeb Awe, intends to place in
his hall as a memorial of the late Duke of
Albany.
Professor David Peck Todd, of Amherst
College, will be at the head of the party
to be sent by the United States to Maxi
ma, on the Quanzo river, in West Africa,
to observe the eclipse of the sun, which
will occur on December 22d.
The owner of the finest collection of
watches in the world is Sir IT,. -. Gvid-
schmid, a wealthy Englishman. whose
riches are said to nearly equal those of the
Rothschilds. Sir Julian and his wife and
daughters have spent part of the summer
at Newport.
DIR. Albert Shaw, chief editorial writer
on the Minneapolis Tribune has been asked
to accept the chair of Political Economy
in Cornell University, made vacant by the
recent election of Professor BENJAMIN
Andrews to the Presidency of Brown
University.
The Dean of Canterbury has originated
scheme for protecting and maintaining
in its present state the ancient British ora
tory of st. Piran, in Cornwall, which was
buried under the sand drifts for probably
more than ten centuries, and only uncoy-
cred in 1885.
Miss Sanger, who toys with type
writer in the interests of President Harri-
son, is one of the successes of the Admins
tration. 1t is said that she has been of
more assistance to the President than any
clerk in his employ. She is rapid
worker and can copy on her machine 120
letters a day.
The Duke of Edinburgh takes pleasure
in repeating to his mother, Queen Vic
toria, the disagreeable comments that the
Emperor of Russia has made upon the re-
cent marriage of Princess Beatrice to Lord
Fife; and it seems that these sentiments
of disapproval are fully shared by the
Empress Frederick.
Charles R. Baldwin, the Democratic
nominee for the Mayoralty of Waterbury.
Conn, is a young man, not being more
than 35 years of age He was born N
Ohio, his father being a prominent Pres
byterian clergyman. Mr.. Baldwin has al
wavs had turn for affairs, runs bank,
owns newpaper and is Treasurer of the
United Press.
Secretary Halford can take no action in
regard to the use by cigarette firm of
photograph purporting to be that of his
daughter Jeanette. The picture is not
Miss Halford's, but is evidently an ideal
astic head to which the tobacconists have
cleverly affixed the name, "Miss Halford,"
leaving it to be inferred that it is meant
for the Private Secretarys daughter.
The Congregational Church at Chelsea,
VT, had centennial celebration recently.
Among the several letters received from
former parishioners was one from &. l.
Hood, of Lowell. containing a check for
81 900, to establish the Hood Memorial
Fund, in commemoration of his father and
sister. The money was deposited in the
bank, and the interest will be used for the
purchase of Sunday-school books.
w. II. Smith, the leader of the Conserv-
ative party in the English House of Com
mons, is extremely fond of flowers, and
has consignment sent to him from his
country house, Greenlands, every morn
ing while he is in town. His gardens
are pretty picture, and in them and in
his hot houses he finds employment for
thirty persons, while his expenditure upon
this particular fancy amounts to several
thousand pounds year.
The acniration for literary honors among
royalties seems to be contagious. The
latest instance of this fact is the Russian
Grand Duke Serge, brother of Alexander
Ill, who is at present causing material to
be collected for biography of the En-
press Elizabeth Alexzevna, the consort of
Car Alexander l., nee Princess Louise of
Baden. That the Grand Duke is in ear
nest with the work appears from the fact
that he has dispatched the head librarian
of the Imperial public library at St. Peters
burg to Carlsruhe to collect from the fam
ily archives information with regard to
the childhood and youth of the princess