Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.
King Menelek of Abyssinia has just
married his forty-frst wife.
Mrs. Manning, widow of Secretary Man
ming, will live henceforth chiefly at Wash
ington.
Judge Walter @. Gresham does not i'm
he is slowly breaking down.
Miss Emily Faithful will probably
abandon her proposed visit to this coun-
try. Her health is not good.
Rev. DR. Jonn Hall will be one of the
orators at the forthcoming National Scotch
Irish Convention in Pittsburg.
Canon Farrar will dedicate his new
book, Truth to Live By" to George w.
Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger.
Prince Bismarck has complete mastery
of the English language and good knowl-
edge of the best English literature
King Charles of Roumania has salary
of 100000 year. He is 81 years of age,
and military affairs absorb his attention
most of the time.
Count Dillon, the former counselor and
treasurer of General Boulanger, is now
living quietly in a handsome villa at
Clarens, on the lake of Geneva.
The Prince of Naples, heir-apparent to
the throne of Italy, will visit the Courts
of Europe during the summer. 1t is said
that he is prospecting for wife.
The curators of the University of Mis-
souri, are still trying to secure Congress
man w. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, for
the Presidency of that institution.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe SAYS that the
New England's Woman's Club will proba-
bly, not enter the National Federation of
Woman's Clubs that has been founded.
literary circles as Charles Egbert Grad
dock, has returned to Tennessee to reside
with her parents at the old homestead.
Ex-Empress Eugene is editing the let
tiers of her late husband and son for publi-
cation, the profits to go to the fund for
the widows of French soldiers of 1870.
"Max O'Rell" is a man of unusually
large physique. He is six feet in hight,
with broad shoulders and deep chest.
He weighs more than two hundred pounds.
Lady Wimborne has taken to entertain
ing on grand scale, and it is said that
she will establish political salon to
aid her brother, Lord Randolph Church
ill.
Professor George Ebers, the Oriental
scholar, has blue eyes and blonde hair and
beard, and looks decidedly Teutonic. He
is a paralytic, but does great deal Of
work.
General Phil Sheridan's three little
daughters are pupils at the Catholic con-
vent in Washington. The eldest, Mary,
is fourteen, and looks very much like her
father.
The mother of Rider Haggard, the nov
elist, Mrs. Ella Haggard, was writer Of
considerable talent, and a posthumous
work of her in verse will soon be pub
lished.
Charles Theodore, the Buke of Bavaria,
Is practicing physician. He treats thou
sands of poor patients gratis and maintains
free dispensaries and hospitals at an annual
cost of $4,000.
The Rev. Canon Brosnan, of County
Kerry, Ireland, is on his way to this coun-
try to raise funds for the completion of the
great memorial church in that town to
Daniel OConnel.
The late DIR. Loewig of Breslau was the
oldest Professor of Chemistry in Germany
He was born in 1903, began lecturing in
1880, and was the celebrated Bunsen's
successor at Breslau.
The two wealthiest women in Philadel-
phia. both widows, are said to be Mrs
Thomas II. Powers and Mrs. Thomas A.
Scott. They are worth between S6,000,0 ,00O
and SS,000,000 each.
Ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard uses
cards that are simply inscribed "Mr. Bay
ard" The style is English, and it created
much CONSERVATION in the South when Mr.
Bayard travelled there.
Sir William Jenner, the Queens physi.
clan, is about to retire from London and
live on his Hampshire estate, where he
will make collection of his handwritings
and perhaps do other important literary
work.
The Rev. DIR. Philip Brooks has always
been strongly adverse to the public display
or sale OF his portrait, and people are
wondering how it has come to pass that a
capital likeness of him appears in the
Arena.
Thomas Towndrown, hearty old gen.
tleman of the New York Tribune staff, has
been reporter fifty years. Last Wednes
day week was his eightieth birthday. He
joined the Iribaae in 1s4l, the year of its
founding by Greeley.
The first woman physician to be recog
nized in Virginia is Mrs. c. L. Haynes
who has recently been elected assistant
at the Western Lunatic Asylum, after pass
ing very successful examination before
the State Medical Board.
The only woman in South American
journalism is from Wisconsin. She is the
wife of Secretary in the Brazilian Wal
Department. and is connected with the
Cidade do Rio, edited by the great Brazil
ian abolitionist, Jose do Patrocinio.
One of the handsomest women of the
Spanish court in the days of Queen lisa
bella was the Duchess Medina Coch. She
is still living, and her grandson, boy O.
twelve years, is the richest nobleman in
Spain, having fortune of S25, 10000.
It was popularity of the late Samuel
j. Randall that he left the handling of hi.
own financial matters to his wife. 1t wa.
common occurrence for those who were
frequently at his home to hear him call tc
his young son Sammy to ask mother" 70,
fifty cents or 81 wherewith to buy postage
stamps.
i General Won Capriyi first came into no.
tice ia the summer of 1866, during the Bo
hemian campaign. He was then intrusted
with the revision of all telegrams to news
papers. While taking care to satisfy his
military superiors, he was not the less sue.
cessful in winning the favor OF the news
papers, even those holding democratic
views.