Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-09
the public in their attempts to invalidate
fba will

the public in their attempts to invalidate
the will.
Won Caprivi is evidently believer in
the newspapers. During the seven months
of his holding Office he has not instituted
a single suit for libel. Bismarck used to
bring about $50 such suits year.
Senator Brice's eldest daughter is q
pretty girl, somewhat above medium
hight, with we'll nodded figure and a
graceful bearing. She is brunette, and
is good linguist and accomplished musi-
clan.
Dona Emilia Pardo Bazan, according to
an English critic, ''is the greatest of Span
ish writer's, perhaps the greatest of living
European writers; certainly in England no
woman can be named who comes nigh
her."
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin is dar-
ing horseman and keeps twelve horses. He
rides like cowboy, and knows every foot
of ground around Washington. He has
been held up three times this summer for
fast driving.
While Speaker Reed was in Bowdoin
College he took great interest in athletic
sports, especially in boating. The present
United States Minister to Sweden, w. w.
Thomas of Portland, was a member of the
same rowing club and class.
The Rev. Abel Stevens, Ii. D., for
many years resident of Boston as editor
of Zion's Herald and in the pastorate, brs
now of Southern California, is engaged In
writing another volume of his history of
Methodism in his seventy-seventh year.
King William of Holland, who is now
tottering on the brink of the grave, is sew
enty-three years old, It is said of him
that no monarch of the present century has
given rise to so much scandal as William,
although his public life has been above
reproach.
Among class of twenty-four admitted
to the bar by the Iowa Supreme Court
the other day was Miss Lily Kostom-
latsky, who passed remarkably good ex-
animation. She is the second woman ad-
mitted to the Iowa Supreme Court, and
will at once begin practice.
Professor Schellbach, teacher to the late
Emperor Frederick, while he wos young
Prince, mentions, in published reminis-
cenees of his pupil, that the Empress Au
gusta always superintended Fredericks
education personally, aud would occupy
herself with needlework or the like during
the lessons.
The Princess Victoria Of Prussia is pa
trioticai,y encouraging national tastes and
industries by having all her trousseux
made in Germany, with the exception of
four Oriental dresses. These we're ordered
for the Princess by the Empress Frederick,
while in Athens, from the Greek School
for Art Weaving.
King Humbert of Italy is man of un-
usual will power. After having for years
smoked to excess, he suddenly and CON-
pletely renounced the habit. When his
physicians advised him to abandon the use
of the weed, it is related that he pondered
a moment and said: Con my kingIy honor
Pll never smoke again." and he has kept
his word.
Feodor Won Preimann, a veteran Of the
Franco Russian war of 1872, died recently
at the age of lis, in St. Petersburg. He
served in the Russian army 25 years, and
received cross of st. George for his brav.
cry. At the age of SO he married II.
year-old girl, by whom he had two chill.
dren. For the last fifty years he made a
practice of drinking pint Of cognac just
before going to bed.
1t is not generally known that the young
Emperor of Germany has shriveled arm
though occasional illusions to it are noticed
in the dispatches. The disabled member
is the left arm, which is not only much
shorter than the right arm, however, but is
absolutely without strength. This bodily
defect necessitates the use of an eating in
strument, a fork, one tine of which has a
knife edge for cutting purposes.
Lieutenant J. NJ Particle of the Fifth
United States Infantry, recently stationed
at Fort Worth, Tex, with his family, is Oh
his way to Europe. He will be abroad &
year, and his family will remain in Europe
for several years. Lieutenant Particle
will be remembered as having been pre-
eminently the American champion in rife
shooting for number of years-as long a:
he entered the lists.
The statement that R. D. Blackmore il
better known among his neighbors a
Lexington n-on-the-Thames as the fruitmar
than as the novelist, and that he is sue
cessful market gardener, explains the
wonderful knowledge he displays in xxi
and Kitty" of the plaques and profits of 1
fruit-raisers avosation. The pictures o
Corney Orchardson's gardening and ex
periences were evidently drawn from Life
and con anaore.
"When General E. Burd Grubb present.
his credentials at Madrid" says the Phila
delphia Inquirer, che will be the first Min
lister of Welsh descent who has represented
the American Government in a Pleni
potentiary capacity at the one tim'
all-powerful Court of Spain. Gen
eral Grubb's Welsh blood comes to him il
an unbroken chain of descent. 1t started
with the coming to America of Curti
Grub in 1929, and has flowed along gen
Grafton after generation, without break