Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-01
PROMINENT MEN.

NELLIE B. WARD.
PROMINENT MEN.
| Thomas Hardy, the English novelist,
detests smoking.
| Emin Pasha is an accomplished linguist.
He speaks twenty seven languages and dia-
lects.
Nearly all Robert Browning's manu-.
scripts will be presented to Baliol College,
Oxford.
Judge Gresham's health is failing to
such degree as to cause his friends much
anxiety.
Mrs. Won Starloff, wife of the American
Consul at Bremen, is an artist of consider
able talent
NJ. du Maurier, the well-known artist,
is an accomplished musician, and has re-
markable tenor voice.
Nine. Juliette Adam, the brilliant Pa
risian editor, will probably visit America
some time next autumn.
The Vanderbilt Benevolent Association
of Charleston have elected Cardinal Glib
bons as an honorary member.
Sir Charles, the ninth Baronet of the
famous house of Ross, is famous short
distance runner. He is but 18 years of
age.
Henry Furniss, the caricaturist of Punch,
has made many enemies among the ROYAL
Academicians by poking pictorial fun at
them.
The eldest daughter o Count Ferdinand
de Lesseps is soon to be married to Count
Ferdinand de Gontaut 8iron, godson of
her father.
"Mr. Browning" said friend one day
to the great poet, you are a mystic"
yes" was the reply; but how did you
find it out ?"
Bishop Van der Vyver, of Richmond, is
a native of Belgium. He has just taken
out naturalization papers to become an
American citizen.
Grace Greenwood is described as wom-
an with large features and very dark hair,
which she combs down over her ears in an
old-fashioned way.
DIR. G. E. Biven has discovered proto-
type of Volapuk in the Chinook .jargon
which is used by the Indians in the North
western portions of this continent.
Ernest R. Willard has been selected to
succeed Charles E. Fitch as editor of the
Rochester On. W Democrat and Chronicle.
Mr.. Willard has for the past few years
been the managing editor.
Clara Barton of Red Cross fame, who
did SO much good work in the valley of
the Connemaugh during the food, recently
paid a visit to Johnstown, and was royalty
feted by those she relieved.
| Mrs. Catherine Sharp, of Philadelphia,
when little girl sold milk to General
Washington and his staff from her fathers
farm. She is now 112 years old, and her
mental faculties are unclouded.
The memoirs of Louis Kossuth are being
revised by NJ. lgnaz Helfy, Hungarian
Deputy, as Kossuth confesses that in his
forty-one years of exile he has not kept
up with the advance of the Hungarian
tongue.
B. L. Farjeon, the novelist, is dark
faced, sharp-eyed and very intelligent
looking man, of genial manner and Jewish
extraction. He began life in newspaper
work in New Zealand, but has been for
many years resident of England.
Ira D. Sankey, the revivalist singer, has
retired from his association with b. l..
Moody, because his voice has given out.
The sale of the famous Moody and Sankey
hymn books has provided both the propri-
etors with handsome competence.
Count Muenster, the present German
ambassador at Paris, is the author of one
Of the best cook books of the day. A sar-
castle colleague once said of him. He is
the best cook among the diplomatists, and
the best diplomatist among the cooks.v
| President Carnot, of France, recently
visited the home of Napoleon Bonaparte
and is said to have gazed with admiration
upon the granite grotto in which, accord
ing to legend, the Little Corporal spent
long hours when child in study and med
itation.
An amusing mistake was made recently
in the Beriiner FremdenbLah. 1t ended a
panegyric upon Prince Bismarck with the
hope that he would long lire to enjoy his
deserved odium" in quiet. The author
of the article evidently has trouble with
his Is and d's.
General Patrick Quincy, of Parkstown,
County Tpperary, Ireland, known as the
Irish American poet, is at present on a
visit to Dublin, She was born in Boston.
She shows her literary culture in an arti-
Gle in the last Harpe's on the lyric poets
of the period of the Charleses
/ Sir Provo Wallis, Senior Admiral Of the
British Navy, completed his Tooth year on
April 18th. Seventy-seven years ago he
assumed command of the frigate Shannon,
after the Commander, Captain Broke, was
wounded during the encounter in Ameri-
can waters with the Chesapeake, which he
captured. He was then % years of age.