Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

synP1tuy Will coHVentUal lie, cannot bu
admlre the exquisite neatness and the per
feet order and harmony that prevails every.
where.
OF course, the religious Orders men.
TONED DO not make complete list of those
In this city. There are several more Cath.
oiic Orders and few Protestant sister.
hoods, all of which do excellent work
among the poor and suffering.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED AsouT.
| 10 A. Ward will model an equestrian
statue of General Philip H. Sheridan.
Oliver Wendell Homes proposes to rest
from literary work the next few months.
Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore, has a
bath in her home lined with Mexican ONYX
that cost $1,000.
Mr.. Gladstone has not relinquished his
pastine of telling trees. He recently fslled
a hne walnut tree in his park.
| IN. Viper, of Egypt" is the title which
q French writer bestows upon the asp who
figures in Bernhardt's Cleopatra"
| Mrs. Samuel ]. Randall is living very
| quietly in Washington at Capitol Hill, her
younger daughter being her constant COM
panion.
The Princess Victoria of Prussia is an
expert performer on the piano and banjo.
a good talker and can drive horse as we'll
as jockey can.
Dr. Edmund j. James, Professor in the
| University of Pennsylvania, has been of.
fered the chair of political economy in Har-
ward University.
| Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble) is living
with her daughter, Mrs. Leigh, in Surrey,
England. She Is quite feeble, having COM
| nlofad hor on iubf Nv f,rck 1a,
Daring the forty-nine years of his life the
Prince of Wales has drawn SIG 500 600
from the public treasury of Great Britain,
and his debts now amount to $1,000 600.
| The Prince of Wales has cabinet con.
tanning copies Of every style CT photograph
ever taken of himself. These prints of
Wales are negative evidences of his vanity.
Edna Lyall, the novelist, is hardly thirty.
She Is demure and unassuming little
woman. who talks slowly and with hesita-
ton. Much Of her work is done on type
| writer.
| The author of IAN Appeal to Pharoah," !"
is Carlyle Mckinley, an editorial writer on
the Charleston Nefos and Courier. This is
from the publishers, officially, and ought
to settle it.
Owing to his physicians advice James
Russell Lowell has Cancelled an engage.
ment to deliver six lectures on the old
| English dramatists at the University of
Pennsylvania.
| Messrs. Walter Besant, William Black
and Thomas Hardy have written Joint
letter to the 4then@una protesting agains.
the attack by that paper on Messrs. Harper,
apropes of Rudyard Kipling.
The latest reports of the health of Al
| phonse Daudet are Of a diseouragiEg ne.
ture. Private letters speak of him as hope
lessy i'll of spinal disease at his summer
home on the banks CT the Seine.
President Carnot is said to be one of the
meH fastidious gastronomes in France.
| His chef is one of the most noted men of
his craft in the world, and is the invenfor
OF number Of culinary chef d oeuvres.
Physicians deprecate the wearing of
waterproof coats es q substitute for ordi-
nary top clothing. They say the body
| should be dressed as warmly under the
waterproof as it would ordinarily be with
Quit.
| Richard 81. Stoddard, the poet, is man
of medium hight, with short, gray hair and
beard. Despite his venerable age AID the
rheumatic twinges that afflict him, he is
usually in excellent humor and keenly en-
| joys joke.
Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, as soon
as he is released from the cares of Office
this winter, will fill many engagements to
speak on dairy topics, not only in the
Badger State. but also in Ohio, New York,
Massachusetts and Canada.
Comtesse de Mailly- -Nesle, one of the
prethest Of Partisan women, is a pretty
blonde, with an elegant figure and q
| gold, her eyes are blue, and she is an &C.
| cor. DiiShed artist and musician
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller. wife of the
Standard Oil millionaire, is one of the most
moSsst and unpretentious of women. She
is her own housekeeper, and she keeps a
| set Of books in which she accounts for
every cent spent on the household.
| Hannibal Hamlin's extreme age has but
slightly bent his tall form. and he still
walks down the street with swinging
stride. He is usually attired in the old
black swallow-tail of ante bellum style,
and he has never discarded the stock and
dickey of the old-time statesman.
| Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant is making but little
or no progress with her book. Her eyes
are weak but not falling her, as the report
goes. Whenever she has time she writes a
page or two. but progress is very slow.
Frem present appearances the book will
| hardly be on the market before spring.
One of the three daughters of John D.
| Rockefeller, while student at Vassar, had
| a handsome allowance in the way of money
from home. Instead of spending this on
rich gowns and apartments, she paid for
two years the tuition and expenses of a
girl from the country who was not able to
pay them herself.
The Boston Post recalls the fact that one
| member of the eminent Barring family YVES
Alexander, the first Lord Ashburton, who
negotiated with Mr.. Webster the famous
treaty which bears his name, and which
settled amicably with England the threat
| eniDg question Of the northwestern bound
ary Of the United States.
Mrs. E. Lynn Linton, the novelist lives
in the Queen Anne mansions overlooking
st. James Park, London. Here she has
charming rooms that are always bright
| with flowers, and here she receives de-
lightful circle of friends. Far from dis.
claiming her age, Mrs. Linton makes her
hosst of having lived in three reigns.
Congressman Culberson of Texas has q
phenomenal record as criminal lawyer.
He has defended LA men charged with
murder. He has never had a client
hanged. Only three of the la were con-
| victed. They were tried by a military
Court and sent to the penitentisry. Judge
Culberson subsequently, secured their re-
lease.
Patrick Calhoun, whom Governor Cor
don recently defeated in the contest for a
seat in the United States Senate, has a
good portion Of the ability that made his
grandfather famous in the early days OF
Congress. In his youth young Calhoun
was shy and diffident and somewhat of a
recluse, but after he blossomed eut as a
lawyer he began to show aptitude for
society. OF late years he has become quite
wealthy from investments in real estate
and railroads.
Y The public will not be surprised ct the
news that the young Emperor of Germany
has fallen out with his mother. He no
longer permits her to take any prominent
part in court functions, and although his
wife, the Empress, expects soon to retire
for season. the Emperor shows disposi-
ton 10 be his own Leading lady" rather
than permit his mother to appear in that
capacity. The next manifestation will be
awaited with interest When young man
sends his mother to the rear he is not get.
ting ahead very fast himself.