Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Chinese Minister at Washington il
fond OF walking, and goes about town afoot
a great deal.
The Rev. Lester L. Potter, of Hartford
Conn, has won prize of $500 for the best
translation into English verse Of the
"Prometheus'' of Eschylus.
Dom Pedro has accepted the Kings
offer of one of the royal palaces in Lisbon
as temporary residence, but he has ex.
pressed a desire to live alone.
Mrs. J. c. Croly Jennie june was &C
years old last Thursday week. Mrs. Ella
Dietz Clymer and others presented her
beautiful rosewood inlaid writing-desk.
Ex-Secrctary Bayard has accepted an
invitation of the Huguenot Society OF
South Carolina to deliver the anniversary
Grafton of the Society in Charleston, on
April 18th.
Professor Paoli Boselli, Minister of Pub
lie Instruction in Italy, has appointed a
committee to select the model of the statue
to be erected to Christopher Columbus in
New York in 1892.
Robert Lincoln will remain in Yer
sailles until his sons health is so far i'm
proved that he can safely be removed to
London. The boy is improving, and will
soon be all right again.
The Rev. DR.. George Dana Boardman
has just finished his famous series of lee
lures on the Bible, which he began in
1864. There have been twenty-three an
nual courses of them, of forty lectures
each.
General Jubal Early goes slouching
about the corridors of the St. Charles
Hotel in New Orleans, like ghost of the
past. One of his fads is that he will never
accept a national bauknote with portrait
of General Grant on it.
Mark Jordan, the oldest man in Ger
many, completed his 10th year October
9th. The Emperor presented him with a
gold medal, bearing portrait of the late
Emperor William, who was baby when
Jordan was Is years of age.
A new work by Heinrich Won Sybel,
complied chiefly from the Prussian State
archives, is announced. 1t is entitled
"The Founding of the German Empire by
William l." The first volume will appear
very shortly, and the remaining three next
year."
Paul Du Chaillu, the author and travel
er, is small, round-shouidered man, about
ffty-two years old He is far from good
looking, but has a vivacity of manner and
brightness in his conversation, which
make the listener forget his want of good
looks.
Mrs. J. S. Sarocka, grandniece of Gen
aral Pulaski, will travel through the
South and speak on the life of her dis
tinguished ancestor. Mrs. Sarocka, with
her husband, was for many years an exile
in Siberia, but, unlike other exiles, she
speaks in high terms of her treatment by
the Russian officials.
Prince Louise Bonaparte, who visited
New York at the time of the Inauguration
of the Statue of Liberty, and who recently
resigned his captaincy in the Italian army,
has been staying for some weeks at St.
Petersburg While there he was received
in audience by the Gar, who appointed
him to Lieutenant Colonelcy in the regi-
ment of Prince Wladimer Dragons, now
stationed at Nijni-Novgorod. Prince
Louis who IS the son of Prince Jerome
Napoleon (Plon-Plon), will join his regi-
ment in April.
Two members of the Hawaiian Royal
Family are now in London-Prince Kau-
ananako and Prince Kechiou. After
stay of some duration in England, they
will proceed on tour through Europe, in
order to acquire all the advantages posi-
BILE from foreign travel. London appears
to have increasing attraction for the prin-
cipal Hawaiian families. Among the re-
cent arrivals there are the two daughters
of the Hon. Samuel Parker the chief ma
tive member of King Kalakaua's Privy
Council, who have entered upon two
years course of higher studies.
Auguste Havas, son of the founder of
the Havas Agency, has just died in Paris,
in his seventy fifth year. He retired from
business in 1879, after having effectively
labored in the extension and improvement
of the great news agency" with which his
name was identified. In conjunction with
NJ. Laffitte, NJ. Havas organized in France
the ingenious system of general publicity,
by which provincial newspapers were ena-
bled to obtain news kilograms, for which
the proprietors paid by placing a certain
amount of space for advertisements at the
disposal of the "Havas Agency"