Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Francis Parkman has almost entirely
regained his health.
The millionaire jeweler, Tiffany, never
wears diamond. His favorite gem is the
opal.
The marriage of Hadii Hassein Ghooly
Khan to Miss Marie de Lamfesta is an
nounced.
General o. o. Howard will deliver an
Grafton at the Brighton, Me-, Academy on
July 1st.
The wealthy English coal baron, Sir
George Elliott, started in life as com.
mon miner.
The veteran car-builder, John Stephen
son, will celebrate his eighty-frst birthday
on the 4th of July.
The claymore carried by Rob Roy. the
Scotch bandit, is now in the possession Of
John MacGregor, of Brooklyn.
Richard Watson Glider, of the Century,
and Miss Katherine Clark, of Boston, are
to be married early next month.
Despite his busy life, Henry Willard,
the railroad magnate, finds time eacs. day
to take up the study of languages.
The youngest professor of modern Ian
guages N the country is A. T. Abernethy,
in Rutherford College, North Carolina.
The widow of the late General Thomas
F. Meagher is said to be about to marry
millionaire John A. Creighton of Omaha.
Lloyd George, new member of Parlia-
ment, is the son of shoemaker. He was
a street preacher at Is, and educated HIM
self.
The author of "a FOOLS Errand," Judge
A. w. Tourgee, has been given pension
at the rate of Sc month from 1868 to
date
Professor Leon de Rosny of Paris is
authority for the statement that the ad-
herents of Buddhism number 10000 in
Paris.
President Seelye of Amherst College
has resumed his work with his old-time
vigor, having been completely restored to
health.
The King of Italy, since the death of
his brother, the Duke of Aosta, has con-
tinued in profound and alarming mel
ancholy.
Jules Ferry has published book deal
ing with Tonquin, in which he seeks to
yindicate the policy of acquiring so valu-
able colony.
Although "a years of age, General
Joseph E. Johnston, one of the surviving
heroes of the 'lost cause" is as hale and
hearty as at so.
John Ruskin is a veritable Sensitive
plant" in regard to the weather. On a
bright day he is buoyant and elastic; on
wet day, moody and misanthropic.
Despite his accomplishments, Emperor
William of Germany is a poor shot.
During his recent Alsatian shooting expe-
dition he missed every bird he shot at.
Mr.. Carlisle is said to owe his Senator
ship, as well as his former political ad-
vancement, largely to the energy and pop
ularity of his clever and ambitious wife.
Mr.. Mutsu, late japanese Minister to the
United States, has been appointed Minister
Of Husbandry in the new Cabinet of
Japan. The position is next to that of
Premier.
A twelve-year-old pianiste from Aus
tralia, named Elsie Hall, is attracting con-
siderable attention in London. She has
been elected to scholarship at the ROYAL
College of Music.
The Southern author, George w. Cable,
is slim-built, somewhat awkward.lookinp
man of middle hight, with dark, beetling
brows, and high forehead surmounted by
shock of black hair
Charles H. Bartlett, of Manchester. N.
H., will be tie orator, and Edward D.
Boylston, of Amherst, N. H., the poet, at
the unveiling of the Amherst Soldiers
Monument, on June 10Th.
1t is estimated that it costs Senator
Evarts 100000 year for his living ex-
penses. He keeps three houses open all
the time, one at Washington, one in New
York and one at Windsor, VT.
Hektograph copies of Count Tolstois
books, which are under the ban of Russia,
are made by his wife and sent through the
mails. His literature is thus placed where
it will do the most good, despite the en-
barge placed upon it.
The Secretary of the Navy has ap-
pointed Albert L. Gihon, Medical Director
United States Navy, in charge of the
Brooklyn Naval Hospital, to represent the
medical department of the United States
Navy at the International Medical Con-
gress to be held at Berlin in August.