Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-14
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

susan b. Anthony Is sitting Tor her por-
trait to Boston artist, and, strange to
say, it is her first portrait.
Mr.. Gladstone's nephew, Sir John Glad
stone, owns distilery at Fasque which
produces 10000 gallons of good whisky
annually.
The ex-Empress Eugene is daily Wis.,
itor to the graves of her husband and son.
To say mass in the chapel of the m auso-
leum she employs six priests and four
monks
Prime Minister Crispi OF Italy is tall
and Observation-Disclosures man, with snowy
white hair and moustache. He has the
reputation of being the best-hated man in
the kingdom.
The private correspondence of Albert
Edward, the Prince of Wales, is something
enormous. He is said to receive four
times as many letters as does the President
of the United States.
Grace Greenwood is quite out of health.
Her trouble is ascrined to rheumatism.
Her face is missed at the social gatherings
to which her keen mother wit and shrewd
sense gave flavor and piquancy
The wife OF Ex-Governor St. John is
drawing large audiences in the West as n
lecturer. A local paper describes her as
"bright-eyed, glib of tongue, and blamed
sight prettier than her cranky husband.n
III. A. Aldrich, who has been Postmaster
| at Mendon, Mass, under every adminlstra-
| ton since President W. II. Harrison. a
service Of fifty years, has announced his
| intention of resigning because of advance
ing age and ill-health.
Mrs Anna Clotz of st. Paul, Mimi. was
run over and killed by the cars there one
day last week, and while they were pre-
pairing her for burial S3S 900 in green
backs was found sewed into her clothing.
She has no known heirs.
Lady Brooke, who as Miss MAYNARD was
known as one of the greatest Of English
heiresses, has perfected scheme for teach.
ing sewing to children in her district.
which would bear inspection from other
intending philanthropists.
Out of 900 foreign missionaries at pres
ent in India, it is said that the oldest is an
American-the Rev. John Newton of the
Presbyterian Church, the veterin mis-
sionary of Lahore, who at the age of rs.
is still worker in his chosen field.
Governor Warren of Wyoming. who
has been elected to the United States Sem
ate from that State, began as Alderman
twenty years ago, and has been pretty
much every kind of an official since. He
went West and grew up with the country,
DIR. Koch was until ten years ago an OBJ
scure country whysician. His practice and
his reputation did not extend beyond the
limits OF the little town of Wollstein, a
place so small and unimportant that it is
only with much difficulty that il can be
found on the map.
General Du Temple, whose death in
Paris is announced, obtained his Generals
stars in curious way. He was a Cap
tain in the French navy in $40 and was
accidentally gazetted General by Gam
beta, who mistook him for his brother
also naval captain,
Mrs. Joplin-Rowe is one of the most
noted women artists of England, as well
as one of the hardest working. She paints
from morning till night, seldom leaving
her studio until nightiall She has a
bright and open face, an attractive man
ner, and is regarded as one of the best talk
ers in London.
Bernhardt's son Maurice. who mt his
vigorous blade into Partisan Journalist
the other day, is by no means a Fauntle-
roy STRIPPING, but fine-looking, clear.eyed,
well-built athlete But he is sadly idle
lad, who spends each year not only the
$4,000 his fond mother allots him. but
about $4,000 more.
F. Heap, keeper of the Glendale Ma
tional Cemetery, near Richmond. has q
desk, made in 1Gl0, which has been in
possession Of the Heap family of England.
1t is said to have been used by Oliver
Cromwell in l647-4S when fighting
Charles I. 1t is of antique oak, beauti.
fully carved and highly polished.
Mrs. Z. Lynn Linton, the novelist,
lives in the Queen Anne mansions over
looking st. James Park, London. Here
she has charming rooms that are always
bright with flowers, and here she receives
a delightful circle Of friends. Far from
disclaiming her age, Mrs. Linton makes
her boast of having lived in three reigns.
Ex-Governor Long Of Massachusetts,
possesses the remarkable ability of recol-
Letting what he has written without read
ing it over even by himself 1t is said that
during his most animated speech he has
IN his minds eye vivid impression of his
manuscript, so that he knows where every
page and every line ends and even where
there are interlineations.
The name of August Belmont was orig
Inally Schonberg, which means beautiful
hill: 1t was Gallicised by some OF the
modern branches of the family into Bel
mont, which means the same thing. His
coming to New York was peculiar. He
was attached to the house of the Rotbs-
chiids, In one of lis branches, the chief of
which came to him one day and said: owe
want some one to go Immediately to New
York. Will you go; and if so, when will
you De ready p Said Mr. Belmont. with
out hesitation: u will go, and | will be
ready to start tomorrow" He started
within twenty-four yours, and ne owed his
great fortune to that quick decision.
Should be Thoroughly R,ns