Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Bret Harte has taken up his permanent
residence in London.
Lord Tennyson will go cruising in Lord
Brassey's yacht this summer
DIR. George Macdonald, the novelist, is
lecturing and preaching in the north of
England.
Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, is con-
fined to his bed from a complication of all
ments due to old age.
The Crown Prince of Italy has been ap-
pointed by Emperor William Captain in
the Thirteenth Hussars.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has
come out strongly in opposition to prohi-
bition and in favor of high license
Albert Halstead, one of Murat Hal
stead's sons, graduates this year at Prince
ton. He will study law in Cincinnati
Mrs. Hetty Green of New York enjoys
an income of $4,000 day, and her total
yearly expenses are said to be less than
$1,000.
David Dudley Field at 80 years of age
is a good sleeper, strong walker, hearty
eater, vivacious talker and persistent
smoker.
After twenty-four years of service, Pro-
fessor Henry Morley is about to resign the
chair of English literature at University
College, London.
Professor Huxley's daughter, Mrs. AL
bert Eckersley, has come over to Mexico
to live, her husband being engaged in rail-
road building there.
The Duke and Duchess of Portland will
visit the United States at an early date, an
American trip having been arranged as
part of their honeymoon.
General Sherman has been complaining
again about the fact that the bands always
play " Marching Through Georgia" when
he makes his appearance.
Arthur S. Thomas, the new Governor
of Utah, was once telegraph messenger
boy. This proves that the messenger boy
occasionally " gets there"
Professor Elisha B. Andrews of Cornell
University is talked of as a possible sue
cessor to DR.. Robinson at Brown, where
he was long an instructor in history.
George Augustus Sala has refused the
honor Of knighthood. He rightly holds
that the true knighthood OF man of let
ters Is not to be conferred by queen.
The widow of Edward Payson Roe, the
novelist, has erected granite monument
over his grave in the Cornwall Village
Cemetery, near Newburg, on the Hudson.
Mrs. Clarkson, wife of First Assistant
Postmaster-General Clarkson, is said to
know more political secrets than any
other woman in America. and to keep them
closer.
Henry Hodges, of Lampasas, Texas, is
claimed to be the oldest living Mason and
Democrat. He is said to be 109 years old,
and to have cast his first vote for Thomas
Jefferson.
The Oldest living peer is Lord Tey nham
who has just completed his 9lst year. He
entered the army only few months after
the battle Of Waterloo, and retired more
than sixty years ago.
The committee which has had charge
of raising the fund for Dr. Anderson, the
retiring President of Rochester University
has reported the sum of SIS, 1872 20. The
amount wanted was only $4,000.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has ar
rived in Paris to look over the Exposition
In few days she will go over to London
for the season, and arrange for the produc.
tion there of her new play, phyllis"
Ex-senator Bruce admonishes the col.
ored men of the South that their deliver.
ance from the wrongs and misfortunes to
which they are now subject depends very
much upon their own efforts as industrious
and law-abiding citizens.
Trst1oa Era,, ;e . of IL,
Bench, and one of the tallest men in of
fetal life. He has dark hair and the foric
complexion of the typical English squire
He is genial, hospitabie, and greatly giver
to the charms of home life.
Coningsby Disraeli, a nephew of the
| former English Premier, has made his de
| but in British politics in much the same
audacity of method which marked tn,
| earlier efforts of his uncle to gain noto
| riety. He is only y years old, but die
not hesitate to roundly abuse Mr.. Parnel
and other prominent Irish Legislators il
his maiden speech at Bath.
No daughter of the late Emperor Fred
erick has the gift of beauty. The heredit
airy Princess of Sake -Meiningen ha
| handsome shoulders when seen from be
hind, and so gets her head painted in pro
file, with her back toward the painter
Princess Sophie is said to have the face o
a "child staring at vacancy, while it hold
a spoonful of pudding in its mouth"
The resignation of DR.. Edward II. Ma
| gill as President of Swarthmore College
has been accepted, to take effect in June
1890. In the meantime he will seek by
trip to the Continent to regain hi
strength and vigor, with view of con
tinuiDg in his labors at Swarthmore. DR.
Magill was Professor of Latin at Swarth
more from 1869 to 1871, and since tn
latter year has been President of the col
lege. He has been teacher for nearl
half century, notable and HONORABLE
record.