Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-20
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would be interesting.
A wealthy bachelor of Syracuse, N. Y,
named d. Edgar Grouse, is building a
$700,000 stable, said to be palatial in all
respects.
Pope Leo XIII. is going to nave mon
ument erected in the Lateran, in which
are to be placed the remains of Pope Inno-
cent III.
Mrs. Reagan, wife of the Texas Senator,
learned shorthand, without teacher, in
order to become her husbands private
secretary.
The betrothal of Princess Victoria,
sister of Emperor William, to Prince
Adolph of Schaumberg-Lippe is officially
announced.
Queen Mary of Hanover, who died re-
Gently, had the doubtful pleasure of read
ing her own obituary in the papers some
years back.
Garibaldi's tomb, in Caprera, is to be
made national monument, and the island
is to be devoted to the purposes of home
for old soldiers.
The remains of the Polish poet Mick
iewicz are to be removed from Paris to
Cracow and inferred in the mausoleum of
the Polish kings.
The humorist Mayor of Milwaukee, Mr..
Peck, is said to be in the habit of walking
about the city at night to see that every
thing is all right.
Mr.. Gladstone, despite his vast wealth,
is almost penurious in personal matters.
He wears his clothes until they are thread
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Cardinal Newman is said to be growing
very old and feeble. He cannot walk a
yard without slow and painful effort and
the support of an attendant.
Mrs. Cleveland has been elected an hon.
orary member of the Alabama Press Asso-
citation. But Mr.. Cleveland is the COM
plete letter-writer of the family.
Ex-Governor John D. Long is in favor
Of having an insurance chair in our COL
leges, that the boy may learn something
about life and property insurance.
The death of Prof. John F. Emerson, of
Brooklyn, leaves only one surviving mem
Der of Dartmouth's class of 1925, NJ. w.
Fletcher, a farmer, of Wayne, Ill.
Citizen Joffrin who was seated by the
Chamber of Deputies from Montmartre
over General Boulanger, is said to be suf-
fering from a dangerous lip cancer.
Senator Milt Mathews of Urbana has
been in New York and Boston, and the
papers East describe him as "a fac simile
of General Grant at his best estate"
Archdeacon Farrar visited Oberammer-
gau at the first performance this year of
the Passion Play, and lodged in the house
of the actor who played the part of Jesus.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon inherited large
sum of money recently from an admirer
in an English town, but distributed the
entire amount among the testator's poor
relations.
An English astrologer who revels in
the name of Sagittarius advised Stanley
and Miss Tenant not to marry on July
18th, most unlucky day, but they paid
no heed to his warning.
Emperor William will give no more
jewelry to those whom he wishes to honor.
Instead, he presents them with photo
graph of himself, bearing his autograph,
and set in a silver frame.
Probably the oldest living preacher is
the Rev. John Atkinson, of Benton Har-
Dor, Mich. He was born in Pennington,
n. j., in 1877, and was licensed to preach
in the Methodist Church in 1914.
The youngest daughter of the Emperor
of Austria, who was recently married, re-
ceived, among other presents, eighty-nine
clocks. If her lord and master has to
face that warning array every time he
comes home from the lodge, he will soon
be ready to vote that marriage is fail.
ure.
Rumors have been rife that Justice La
mar would soon sell out his interests in
Mississippi and sever all connection with
that State because of his belief that negro
domination will soon be established there.
But they who say this speak not wisely.
Mr.. Lamar is not that sort of man. He
is rather of the ''die in the last ditch" va
riety.