Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Europe last week.
Nine. Gavarni, widow of the famous
caricaturist, is dead.
Professor James Russell Lowell is
steadily regaining his health.
President Capen, of Tufts College, is
slowly recovering from serious illness.
The distinguished English lawyer Sir
Henry James has broken down from over
work.
Admiral Porter has hired the estate of
Miss Kate Lincoln, "Rocky Nook" near
Boston.
The home of Carlyle, the author, in
Chelsea, England, has been subdivided for
tenants.
George Hugo, grandson of the poet, is
said to possess rare originality and power
as an artist.
Louise Michel says that many of the
pleasantest hours of her life have been
spent in prison.
A large number of manuscript sermons
of the late Bishop Lightfoot are being pre-
pared for publication.
The poet Swinburn is the chief un.
married man in England. He is said to
love all pretty women, but has never pro.
posed to one.
A young Philadelphian, Miss Katherine
Bailey, is announced as engaged to be mar.
ried to Count de Sibourg, whose mother is
an American.
A daily newspaper is about to be pub.
llshed in the City of Mexico in the Eng.
lish language, A Mr.. Seay, of Chicago, is
father to the enterprise.
Ex-Governor w. w. Holden of Raleigh
is preparing history of North Carolina
during the reconstruction period, which
Is to contain much new information.
DIR. Gatling, the inventor of the Gatline
gun, is said to be at work on new arti
ticial ice machine, which, he believes, will
| make ice at one-tenth the present cost.
Prince de Chimay, recently married tc
Miss Ward, of Detroit, is the head of the
Belgian noble house of his name, and is
reputed as a skilled diplomatist and violin
player.
Montstuart, Lord Bute's mansion neal
Rothesay, England, is the largest and cost
liest private residence in the world 1t is
in Gothic style, and covers nearly two
acres of ground.
King Humbert of Italy is said to be
getting more and more morose each day
Queen Margherita is afraid to leave hin
alone for fear that he should make an at
tempt on his life.
j. Leverett Story Of Essex, Neb, has ar
apple tree on his farm one-half of which
is in full bloom, the other bare. The line
of division is drawn exactly through the
center of the tree.
Prince Bismarck is said to avoid passing
near a statue Of himself He recently
told friend that he did not know what
attitude to assume when confronting
counterfeit presentment of himself.
After years of study, Professor A. n
Klaer, a Norwegian, has issued statistics
tending to prove that marriage has ten
dency to decrease the death rate among
men and to increase it among women.s
Professor F. Lloyd Andrews, Dean of the
Faculty of Colgate University, will spend
the summer in Europe. Since the death
of President Dodge, in January, Professor
Andrews has been the executive head OF
the university.
A planter living near Corinth, Miss.
Philip Hensen, is believed to be the pos.
sessor of the longest beard in the world
Although he is man six and half feet
tall, his beard touches the ground when he
is standing erect.
Representative Burrows is one of the
finest looking men in Congress. He is six
feet two inches tall, weighs over two hun
dred pounds, and has a voice that pene-
trates to every corner OF the vast chamber
in which the House sits.
Professor Laughlin, who was recently
recommended by the Executive Board OF
Trustees Of Cornwall to fill the Chair of
Political Economy and Finance, is a grad
uate of Harvard, where he was for several
years instructor of Political Economy.
Miss Mary A. Green, a yonng woman
residing in Boston, who was recently adj
mitted to the practice of law in that CITY.
has been delivering lectures there upon
Law" She makes especial reference to
the place and duties of women under the
law.
The late Sir George Burns, who was
one of the founders of the Cunard Com
pany, and who died in his ninety-ffth
year, came of a long-lived race. His
father lived to be ninety-six years old. and
was minister of a church in Glasgow for
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