The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-23
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Empress of Austria is charged with
smoking from thirty TO forty cigarettes a
day.
Lawrence Barrett is going to do little
starring on his own account this month be-
fore Joining Booth.
The Emperor of Germany offered TO make
Lord Salisbury Knight OF the Black
Eagle, but the honor was respectfully de-
clmed.
Lord Lawrence Petrie and Jennie Will
Jams, an American soubrette, will be married
at the formers residence in England, Sep
TENDER 10Th.
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, is a tall.
slim and remarkably handsome man. He
has broad forehead, delicate features, and
a fine, full beard that has begun to turn
gray. He is 66 ears old.
Aphouse Daudet, the great French au-
thor, is a delicate little man, whose head is
surrounded by heavy ringlets that resemble
a lions name. His eyes are soft and dreary.
and he wears a beard parted at the chin
Mrs. James X. Polk, who has just cele-
bratCd her eighty-seventh birthday, was a
very handsome woman in her prime. Her
hair and eyes were black, and her complex
ion was that of a Spanish girl. She is now
passing a serene old age, patiently waiting
for death.
DR.. George F. Root, the composer of
Rally Round the Flag, Boys" and hum
SEVENTEEN anniversary of his birth in Chi
cago ON Saturday. He wrote the famous
song on the morning following Lincoln's
second call for troops. ,
Professor Wilson of Wesleyan College.
who has recently been doing double duty,
viii surrender his history work next term to
a new HpponJee. Professor Andrew Steven
son. who has just taken the degree of Doctor
af Philosophy at Johns Hopkins, is to have
the history department
Bismarck has the satisfaction Of knowing
that the newspapers in Germany which have
deserted him lave lost seriously in circula-
ton. The Allgemeine Zetung IN particular,
which had for years been Bismarck organ
and has now taken the other-tack, has fallen
from 5000 to 10000 daily.
General +. Kirby Smith is one of the
three surviving confederate generals-the
other two being Generals Beauregard and
Johnston. He is at present in New Orleans,
where his erect and sOldierly figure, topped.
as it were, with crown OF strong white
hair, attracts general attention.
Henry W. Hillard of Georgia has nearly
ready for the press volume of remnis-
cences covering a period Of fully half a
century. Mr.. Hillard was the Minister to
| Belgium when Mr.. Webster was Secretary
Of State, was in Congress from 1913 TO 1851,
and Minister to Brazil from 1877 to 1881.
The Rev. DR.. c. II. Parkhurst of New
York recently distinguished himself by seal
ing the MatterhoTn, the most dangerous
peak of the Alps. This feat is seldom per-
formed. In fact, the Matterhorn was not
scaled by man until 1865, and of the COM
pany which climbed to the top three were
killed.
Hannibal Hamlip, the veteran Maine poll
tician and ex-Vice-President of the United
States, is an inveterate clubman and card
player, and enters into game of whist or
auction pitch with as much zest as If he was
a college sophomore. His health is rugged,
elements as umbrellas and overcoats.
James Russell Lowell is recovering from
his recent Illness, and divides the summer
between Cambridge and scarborough. A
friend, physician, who studies him with a
scientific eye, says that he had long CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Lowell within a week, and
he had never seen the poets keen analysis
more fully put forth than at that informal
discnsslOQ.