Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-02
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

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preparing book on Lord Beaconsfeld.
1t is said that the Duke of Aosta left
S7,500,000 to be divided among his three
sons.
Emil Zola is said to be candidate for
election to vacant chair in the French
Academy.
1t is graveiy asserted that Lord Ran
dolph Churchill has never crossed London
bridge nor visited the Tower.
Miss Maud Fuller, the youngest daugh-
ter of Chief Justice Fuller, will spend the
winter in Albuquerque, n. NJ.
Miss Amy c. Fowler (Sister Rose Ger
trude), who is going among the Hawaiian
lepers, has written book of stories for
children.
Miss Bisland, the brave little woman
who went around the world at six hours'
notice, has been made literary editor of the
Cosmopolitan Magasine.
Professor Anderson, lately Minister to
Denmark, began life in Milwaukee by
peddling apples about the banks, Board
Of Trade and railway offices.
Emperor William has caused an order
to be issued prohibiting the exhibition of
portraits of himself, his ancestors, or any Of
his family without his sanction first being
obtained.
The Gar has never worn the uniform OF
a Russian field marshal, one of the forty
four uniforms he possesses. 1t is a family
tradition that this is only worn in the
field after victory.
The late Emily Pfeifer, the poet, was q
Welshwoman, married to German, a bus
iness man settled in London. Most of her
many volumes of verse passed through
more than one edition.
Prince Karl Of Denmark has lust re-
turned home after a cruise in the West
Indies. He was the first Danish Prince to
visit his country's possessions there, and
was received with much enthusiasm.
Amairo Sato, the Charge d'Affaires Of
the japanese Legation in the absence Of
Minister Mutsu, is a nobleman and a fac
gentleman. He was educated in America,
graduating from Asbury University il
1881
Nellie Arthur, the daughter of the late
President Arthur, has grown into tall
young girl who possesses the attractions Of
fine rosy skin and bright brown eyes.
She looks wonderfully well in directory
gown.
Mrs. Humphrey Wards new book de-
scribes a successful mechanic passing
through various experiences and settling
down in the Elsmere Brotherhood. It is
deep book, even heavier than Robert
Elsmere.
Lydia Bacon, of Sudbury Mass, who
has Just been cut off in the prime of her
103d year, attributed her longevity to hard
work, plenty of exercise, plain living, and
reading enough to keep the mind in pace
with the body's vigor.
John Prentiss Poe, of the present Mary
land Senate, is one of the nearest living
relatives of the author of the Raven"
Mr.. Poe has none Of the poetical gifts OF
his immortal cousin, but he is hard
working lawyer and politician.
Amesbury boasts another 'grand old
man" beside Whittier, in the person Of
Albert Gallatin Morton, who was born in
1904, began preaching in 1926, and hes
occupied his pulpit regularly ever since
without in single instance writing out q
sermon.
Captain Henry Murrell, late of the Mis-
souri,, forever distinguished as the rescuer
of over seven hundred people from the
Danmark, is to have a new steamer, the
Michigan, now building for the Atlantic
Transport Line. She will be a magnificent
specimen of the freight carrier.
Jean Hosmer, the once brilliant actress
who died in obscurity the other day, was
great admirer of j. Wilkes Booth as al
actor. She said he was a better actor than
his brother Edwin and more like his
father in fire and vigor, but he did not
possess the grace and refinement of his
brother.
An inventory OF the wardrobe Of Queen
Elizabeth, made in the year 1900, recently
published, shows that the Queen had 90
robes, 1876 kirlles, 369 gowns, 1876 "lore-
parts" 125 petticoats, 27 fans, SO cloaks,
81 sayeguards, S5 doublets and Is lap man
ties. The gowns appear all to have been
of the richest materials.
By request Of the National Historical
Association, General g. w. Darling, cor
responding secretary of the Oneida His
torical Society, is now preparing new list
of historical societies in the United States,
intended to be more perfect than the one
which appears in the report of the Com
missioner of Education, 1SS4.'S5
Florence Percy few years since was a
popular American writer, but some news
paper having said that her success was
owing to the gallantry of American pub
fishers and the pushing Of her titled
friends, she went into literary Information
and has only recently appeared again
t1nlar tho t,ap mama Of tst( OF barspa A ys,--
strong" She is frequent contributor to
the best English magazines and literary
journals. Just now she is residing ct
Rouen, France, studying the labor question
as it concerns women. She is very clever
with her pen and has a strong individ
uality.
Charles S. Bonaparte is The grandson Of
a King and the grandnephew Of an EN-
peror, but he is plain American lawyer.
Although millionaire, he rarely enter
tains; dresses plainly, lives plainly, looks
plain and is plain. He is short, stout and
swarthy, and his appearance on the street
is very remarkable. His head shakes from
side to side like the pendulum of clock.
He is married, but has no children, and,
unlike his brother Jerome Napoleon, he
does not pose before the world as an I'M
perialist Bonaparte. His ambition is in
the way of his profession He would like
to be Judge, and is something of an
orator.
The youngest great grandmother in the
United States probably lives near Pomona.
Her name is Francesca Cordoba, and her
age is but 80 years. She is a poor Spanish
woman who has lived in that region for
over thirty years. She was married when
but Is years old, and her eldest daughter
married when she vas a little over II
years old. Mrs. Cordoba was but SO years
old when she was grandmother. Her
eldest granddaughter was married last
April at the age Of 16 years, and now that
a great-granddaughter has been born into
the family there is great rejoicing among
the Cordoilas and their Spanish relatives.
Mrs. Cordoba is in fine health.
"John," said wife from under the bed
clothes to her husband, who had come in
very late, 81 think you would do wei on
Wall street." 81 do (hic) we'll IN Wall
street, M dear p "Yes, John, vou are
such very cautious man. Aren't those
your boots you have in yonr hand?D