Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-05
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF,

Lord Wolseley began life as a clerk in
stationery store in Dublin.
DIR. John Macintosh, the Scotch his
torian, is a seller of secondhand books at
Aberdeen.
Bronson Howard and wife and Charles
Wyndham and wife have gone to Switzer-
land on bicycles.
Mrs. Deborah Powers, of Kingston, n.
Y, is worth S3,000,000, manages her own
affairs, and is 100 years old.
The library of Napoleon III, saved from
the Tuileries when it was in flames, is
shortly to be sold by auction.
Rhoda Broughton is 80 years old, white
haired and sunny-faced. She has written
twenty-five books. but only ten of them
have been printed.
1t is said that Mrs. John W. Mackay
and her sister are the originals of Mrs.
Scott and Bettinia in Ludovic Halevy's
charming "LAbbe Constantin."
Alphonse Daudet, the famous French
novelist, is now quite recovered from his
recent illness, and is busily engaged on
new novel as well as new play.
Charles Gibson of st. Louis, upon whom
Emperor William bestowed the Order of
the Crown, has gone to Berlin to express
in person his appreciation of the homer.
The President of Uruguay lives over
millinery store with his wife, but having
the entEe resources of the country at his
command the expense does not worry him.
Miss Letter, according to one of the
London society journals, is the beautiful
American heiress' that is attracting most
attention in the English metropolis at
present.
Mary A. Whitney, who succeeded Maria
Mitchell as Professor of Astronomy at
Vassar College, advocates the study of
science for girls, with the express object of
disciplinipg their emotional natures.
Judge Allen G. Thurman's birthday,
November 18th, will be made the occasion
of banquet In his honor by the Demo-
Gratis of Columbus, Ohio. Mr.. Thurman
will then have completed his 10th year.
Professor T. c. Mendenhall, the new
Chief of the Coast Survey, who has infused
new life and ideas into the work Of the
Bureau, meditates an attempt to locate
afresh the magnetic pole OF the Northern
Hemisphere.
The Car Alexander HIS personal body
guard of private police consists of fifteen
specially picked Corsicans, mature and
tried men, chosen and trained BY NJ. Celer-
tin Bietri, nephew of Napoleon Ills
Minister of Police
Lieutenant Brownell, who shot Jackson
proprietor of the Marshal House, in Alex
andria, Va, after the latter had killed
Colonel Ellsworth for hauling down his
secession flag, is now in the Pension De-
partment, in Washington.
The Rev. DR.. E. R. Atwill, of Toledo.
Ohio, who is soon to be consecrated Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.
has been a member of the Episcopal Cen
eral Convention for many years, but he is
never known to have made a speech in
that body.
Professor Woodrow Wilson, recently of
Wesleyan, takes the chair at Princeton
College of political economy. Professor
Wilson is graduate of the college, in the
class of 20, and is widely known as the
author of Congressional Government"
His career at Wesleyan was highly sue
cessful.
This is Nym Crinkle's clever and lust
estimate OF Boucicault: "He was not a
maker, but he was such a fashioner that
genius itself looked on with wonder at his
talent, and as the man who digs the trench
that brings the water to the thirsty camp
is better than the chemist who can make
oxygen and hydrogen unite let US believe
that the world is less arid than it would
have been if Dion Boucicault had not
lived"
Professor Tyndall, who has just reached
his 10Th year, spent his birthday in his
Swiss chalet, high up among the glaciers
upon which so much of his thought was
spent more than quarter of a century
ago. Even at 20 his gaunt and wiry frame
is equal to the minor fatigues of Alpine
climbing; and there is probably not an
Englishman-or, more correctly, an Irish
man-living who knows the mountain
passes better than he. 1t is just thirty
years since his 'Glaciers of the Alps" the |
first of series of exhaustive works on the
subject, was published. Since the four
years he spent among the glaciers in prep
aration and research for his book, Professor
Tyndall has entertained warm affection
for Switzerland.