Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-23
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

L HS GdtiSIltSI vi llOiuoOu gives piOlAAc'
of becoming famous singer.
Bret Harte has written a story with thu
| title: "a Client of Colonel Starbottle's."
Lord Randolph Churchill is reputed tt
have won $4,000 on the turf this season
The personal estate of the Due de Mont
pensier has been sworn at nearly ell 600,
600 sterling.
While the Rev. DIR. George F. Pente-
cost is engaged in evangelizing India, his
family will live in Florence, Italy.
Chancellor Snow, of the Kansas State
University, is figuring on new bacillus
which will exterminate the Hessian fly.
Gambetta's heart is rot the only relic oI
great man that French people would
like to find. Search is now being made
for Mirabeau's remains.
General Greely, Chief of the Signal
Service, is in receipt of at least twenty let.
tiers day from cranks who solemnly hold
him responsible for the weather.
One of the most highly priced relics in
the possession of General Miles is plain,
old-style rifle that once belonged to Rain
in-the-Face, the slayer of General Custer
FIR. P. L. Chapelle, Catholic priest of
Washington, D. g., who is about to be ele-
waited to Bishopric, is Frenchman by
birth, and has missionary uncle in
Hayti.
Because Senator Jones was put off a
street-car for not having FIVE cents car
fare, his friends have given him a gold
headed cane which opens and will hold
one hundred nickels.
Queen Margherita of Italy has pas
sion for pearls. She wears strings upon
strings of them around her neck. Ma
licious tongues whisper that she wears
them to hide a goitre.
Dumas, the novelist, has aged greatly
during the last twelvemonth. Despite his
years he bears himself gallantly, and at
the recent wedding of his daughter he was
the life of the company.
John D. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil
Company, has lots of fun watching his in
come grow. 1t is said to be S6,000,000 a
year, or 1854 an hour, night and day, every
day throughout the year.
Barrett Wendell, the novelist, who is
also Assistant Professor of English at Har-
ward, has been devoting his summer So
journ at Newcastle, n. H, to work on a
biography of Cotton Mather.
Fraulein Helene Lange is said to be one
of the most influential women in Germany
a. the present time. She is lecturer and
essayist, with remarkable power of crit
ical analysis and originality Of thought.
The historian of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in America is Bishop William
Stevens Perry of Iowa. He edits the jour
mails of the Conventions of the church, and
is the author of several volumes of church
history.
Miss Katherine Lee Bates, Professor of
English Literature at Wellesley College,
and well-known writer Of verse, is now
taking years rest in Europe, after which
she Is to enter on years study at Oxford,
England.
Gilbert Anderson Bergland, the mill
ionaire Swede of Cadillac, Mich, bought
all the wool of that neighborhood last
summer, some 10000 pounds, and he still
holds it and fears he cannot get back the
purchase price.
Steve Holcombe, the converted Louis
vile gambler, who is now one of the most
successful evangelists in the country, is
slim, spectacled man, usually clad in a
closely -buttoned Prince Albert coat He
is brim full of nervous energy.
Chief Simon Pokagon, who was educated
to be Catholic priest, has Just sent six
more remnants of his once powerful Potta-
watomie tribe to Kansas Indian college.
He says his people in Michigan will be
entirely annihilated in half century.
One of the principal leaders of the tenn
perance movement in Great Britain is Mr..
Wyndham Portal, the proprietor of the
Laverstoke Paper Mills, where the paper
that the Bank of England notes and the
postal orders are made of is manufactured.
The first woman to make the ascent of
Mount Tacoma, Washington, is Miss Fuller,
of Tacoma. She accomplished her trip in
a hurricane, spent the night in a cave at
the summit, and never finched, although
she suffered greatly from cold and ex-
posure.
Paul Kruger, President of the Trans
vaal, receives a salary of $4,000 year, but
is one of the most democratic of men. A
visitor who wished to make call on him
was ushered into room where the Presi-
dent sat washing his feet in true Dutch
fashion.
Colonel "Dan" Lamont is good deal of
a man these days. His influence is more
eagerly sought than that OF any other man
in Wall street OF his years, and it may be
added that it is more difficult to secure
than the majority OF the people perhaps
imagine.
Says General Sherman of the telephone:
dts one of the biggest modern nuisances.
I've tried the telephone ten thousand
times and never knew il to work right. II
/ want to send message believe in put
ting a man on horse and letting him de-
liver it."
Victor Emmanuel, the heir apparent to
the crown of Italy, assumed a fictitious
title while travelling in Russia and Ger
many not long ago. The title happened
to b long by heredity TO an impecunious
italian, who has now sued the Prince for
for its use.
Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, mother of
General Lew Wallace, although now in
her 18th year, is said to be as bright and
fresh as if thirty years younger. She has
just been lecturing in Kansas City, before
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
on "Woman's Position, Social Civil and
Religious from Bible Standpoint"
There will be an equipage in New York
this winter that will simply lead the entire
procession, barring none. 1t is the outfit
of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt The horses,
half-blooded Percherons, were bought of a
Partisan banker, Mr.. Thorne, for $4,000,
matched like pefs in pod. To have her
coachman in keeping, Mrs. Vanderbilt has
lmed into her employ Guillot, the favorite
postillion of Napoleon III.
Clara Greenawald, public school teacher
in Penn Township, Berke county, Pa, is
but Is. She has had but common school
education. She seems much older than
she actually is. Her appointment is not
altogether popular one. The school has
the reputation of being one of the toughest
in the township. In the winter it has
about sixty scholars in attendance Cor
poral punishment is inflicted on the slight
oof rrovoootion