Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-30


"Who drives fat oxen should himself be
fat''-which in modern phrase is: Who
drives an English =cob-a horse imported
from England. deep and broad of chest,
broad of barrel, heavy of fiank-should
himself be English. L. J. VANCE.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
Lord Lytton has written a novel in
French.
Archdeacon Farrar has accepted the
chaplaincy of the House of Commons.
Miss Matte Thompson, daughter of ex-
Congressman Phil Thompson, is one of the
most noted bellies of Kentucky.
Nicoli Alexandrovitch, the 20-year-old
son of the Russian Gear, is said to have
arranged for visit to this country.
J. B. Carter, of New York, won the
Stinnecke scholarship in Princeton Col
lege. 1t puts $500 in the winners
pocket.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, left Yale
College in 1S49 to join the Argonauts.
He believes that the sold-hunters have
seen their best days.
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, is one of the
poorest men in Congress. He lives in a
very economical way and relies ON his sal
ary to pay his bills.
The Car Alexander III. has recently
suffered severely from the gout, and his
physicians have vetoed his former indulg-
ence in high living.
Bismarck expects to finish his memoirs
he and Aan.Ia 20
terrupt the work by accepting seat in the
Prussian House of Lords.
Ali of Emperor Williams Hohenzollern
ancestors born since 1922, as well as him
sell, his brothers and sisters, have been
rocked in the same cradle.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward is said to
be so abnormally sensitive to noise that the
gnawing of mouse at the wainscot is suf-
ficient to almost drive her distracted
Notwithstanding his advanced years,
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes still receives
friends and strangers on the afternoons
which he especially reserves for that pur-
pose.
Lord Wolseley was at one time tre-
mendous smoker. For years he used to
smoke steadily from in the morning till
bedtime, smoking nothing but big black
cigars.
Colonel I. W. Higginson has been con-
fined to his room in Cambridge, Mass, for
some time. He is not seriously i'll, but
finds it necessary to be very careful of his
health.
John Burns, the London labor leader,
does not think well of General Booths
plan of ridding the metropolis of its
wretchedness and suffering by a gigantic
charity.
Queen Victoria drives out at o'clock
every day, no matter what the weather
may be. She is usually accompanied by
the Princess Beatrice, the lady-in-waiting
and an invited guest.
Olive Thorne Miller has completed two
new books, both on subjects in the treat
ment of which she is happiest-one on
outdoor studies of birds; the other, studies
of pet animals in the house.
Joseph Major, a wealthy colored man in
Virginia, died several days ago on the
estate of the late President William Henry
Harrison, on James river. Major was 100
years old, and was the father of thirty
children.
Thirteen years have elapsed since the
death of Oliver p Morton, the old "War
Governor" and Senator of Indiana On
every anniversary his widow and other
members of the family quietly visit and
decorate his tomb.
Countess Elizabeth Koenigsmarck, said
to be the handsomest woman in Germany,
was recently welded in novel dress of
red and white, the colors of her husbands
regiment. The bridesmaids also wore
gowns of scarlet and white.
General Gourko, the Russian CON-
mander who became famous in the Balkans
during the Russo Turkish war, has fallen
under the displeasure of the Car on ac-
count of his severity, and will be forced to
retire to his estates in Saharow.
The children of G. w. Meadows of Har-
rison, Ga, have four living great-grand-
mothers and two living grandmothers.
The youngest great-grandmother is sew
enty-eight, while the oldest is ninety-two
the youngest grandmother is fifty-five, and
the eldest is fifty-eight
Baroness Margarethe Won Lilien-Kreutz
of Berlin is beautiful, young, the daughter
of Swedish Knight and the widow Of a
Swedish naval captain. She has seen gay
days in St. Petersburg; hEt now she is one
of the latest recruits or the Salvation
Army in Williams Capital.
Secretary of War Proctor boughtin Mont.
pelier, VT, last week a pair of beautiful
Morgan horses for the President. They
were owned in Plainfeld, VT, and shown
at the recent fair at White River juno
ton. where they attracted much attention
by their style and action and on account
of their close matching.
Miss Maude Powell, the violinist, is en-
deavoring to recover, by suit at law, $500
that she paid for an old "Duiffoprugcar'
instrument. She finds, she says, that it is
one of kind turned out by the carload in
Southern France especially for the purpose
of deceiving buyers, and that their market
value is about So dozen.
Father Ignatius is moving the waters in
Boston town. Episcopalians are extern
sively signing remonstrance against
Bishop Paddock's Introduction of the work,
and Edward Everett. Hale (Unitarianl has
invited the eloquent Benedictine to speak
in his church, with permission to preach
Christ and convert all of Hale's people II
he can.
The wind will find its occupation around
the Supreme Court of the United States
gone pretty soon. Justice Brewer has
Joined the monastic majority Of Justices
who believe the dignity of an occupant OF
the bench is enhanced by smooth cheek
and chin. Aside from the flowing mus
tache of the Chief Justice there is nought
remaining to provoke the soughing wind
but the moth-eaten hirsutes of Justice
Lamar.
Sir Edward Shelley, who was nephew
of the famous poet, and who died few
days ago, spent much of his adventurous
life in this country before he settled down
as Hampshire county gentleman. He
Joined the shi-bazouks when the Cri-
mean war broke ont, having resigned his
commission in the Sixteenth Lancers, and
served with them throughout the cam
paign, after which he went on a hunting
expedition in South Africa and passed
nearly three years in the interior. From
Africa he came to this country, and pro-
ceeded to the prairies, where he was cap
tured by a tribe of Indians, who kept him
prisoner for nearly three years, and when
be escaped from them he went still farther
West and ultimately reached San Fran