Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.

Atkinson and Mr.. Wheeler contribute the
excellent small illustrations.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.
Senator George of Mississippi has head
of long flowing hair that waves pictur-
esquely about when he is excited.
The insanity of King Ohio of Bavaria
has developed into violent form, and it is
thought that he cannot live long.
General Lew Wallace, the author of
"Ben Hur," writes a small and neat hand
which is as clear and legible as copper
plate.
Masatoki Ikeda, son and heir of the
Duke of Bijen, Japan, is at present in this
country. He is an enthusiastic tennis
player.
Miss Mollie E. Seawall, recently sue
cessful novelist, who took the $500 prize
offered by Boston periodical, is a niece
Of President Tyler.
Mr.. Spurgeon, the famous London
preacher, is nothing if not eccentric in his
pulpit efforts. In recent sermon he ex
tolled illness as blessing.
Emperor William has ordered that the
sick children OF the Government factory
employees are to have a vacation at the
seashore at the Governments expense.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, the noted phi
lanthropist of Boston, is now nearly ninety
years of age. She is very feeble physi-
cally, but her mind is still bright and
active.
The raoY1a xybo oocDrxy tho oot+ora raxt
to Mr.. Cleveland's at Marion have felt it
necessary to put out placard on which
are inscribed the words: "Next door is the
place"
Miss Kate Marsden, an Englishwoman,
has been decorated by the Empress with
the insignia of the Russian Red Cross for
services as a nurse during the war with
Turkey.
Frank Bidleman, who died in this State
recently, left $4,000 to the Sigma Phi
Fraternity of Union College. He was a
graduate of the college and member Of
the society.
A little man was born in Paris August
1st that will call John Wanamaker
grandpa. The principals of the connect
ing generation are Mr.. and Mrs. L. Rod
man Wanamaker.
In half century of ministerial work the
Rev. DIR. Theodore Pryor, who died re-
Gently in Notaway county, Va, never
missed an appointment to preach on ac
count of ill-health.
The wife of Senator Davis of Minnesota
is quoted to the effect that she was taught
dressmaking when she was girl, and from
that time till the present she has made not
only every dress, but also every hat or
bonnet that she has worn.
Little King Alphonso, of Spain, sspend
ing the summer at San Sebastian, the ia
nous seaside resort near the French from
tier. He takes sea-baths every day with
his mother, the Queen Regent.
Columbus Delano, of Ohio, who is Presi-
dent of the Wool growers Association, was
Grants Secretary of the Interior. He is
well advanced in years, but active enough
to visit Washington frequently.
President E. n. Potter, of Hobart Col
lege, and the Rev. DR.. W. r. Huntington,
rector of Grace Church, New York, have
received the honorary degree Of d. c. L.
from the University of the South.
Rev. Dr. Hepworth, editor of the New
York Herald, has gone on a vacation
which may last as long as he may choose.
In the meantime the paper will be under
the direction of John Russell Young.
Mrs. Jinsiwala, Sanskrit professor at the
Wilson College, Bombay, has. undertaken
to check the vigorous Indian movement
for improving woman's status by lecturing
l. IL coa,o1
FORMS
Preparations are being made already for
the celebration of Field Marshal Count
Won Moltke's ninetieth birthday next No
vember. The whole German army will
celebrate the day. Special exercises will
be held in the schools also.
Mrs. Kendall pays this graceful tribute
to Mrs Cleveland ''She is one of the most
charming women l have ever seen-a COM
bination, as it were, oe the aristocratic
graces of Lady Dudley and the gentle man
ner of the Princess of Wales
A correspondent of the New York Press
visiting Helena, Mont, finds it gossip
there that Russell Harrison is selling out
his interest in the Helena Journal to L. E.
Quigg, late of the New York Tribune,
who edited the Journal during the last
campaign.
A Western correspondent says that Col
Tom Ochiltree is 81 years of age. The
ColonePs red hair is great boon TO him
in hiding both his ears and years, but
whatever may be his years he has all the
exuberance, hopefulness and zest of a youth
of twenty.
Miss Grace Claiming, whose recent con-
tributions to various magazines have made
her name familiar to the reading public, is
daughter of DIR. Charming, of Boston, |
and a granddaughter of William Ellery
Channir. Miss Claiming will pass the
winter in Florence, whittier she will go for
her health.
Princess Maria Anna of Portugal, who |
is about to marry an untitled doctor of
medicine, recently wrote, in reply to an
intimate. friend, who asked her how she
could marry man of such low rank when
so many princely suitors were at her dis
posal ~ prefer to marry man with
out name, rather than name without a
man."
Captain Ebenezer Morgan, popularly
known as 'Rattler" Morgan, who died re-
Gently, brought into Philadelphia some
famous cargoes One of these was after a
whaling trip to Greenland in 1864, when
be brought home oil that is said to have
sold for nearly S150,000; and another,
sealing trip to Alaska, that netted more
than twice that to the parties concerned.