Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-12
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.


PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.
Mrs. Alexander, the novelist, in private
life is Miss Hector.
&C. Burnand gets $4,000 year, it i.
said, for editing Punch.
Mrs. "Stonewall' Jackson, now at Staun
ton, Va, is great sufferer from neural
gia.
The Empress of Austria is charged
with smoking from thirty to forty cigar
cites day.
Mr.. Buckle, the editor of the London
Times, is reputed to receive salary Of
$4,000 year.
Adelina Patti thinks that swell London
audiences are the most heartless and in
considerate in the world.
General Butler is fond of good dining
and is himself an accomplished cook. He
can broil lobster to turn.
Lord Arundel, heir of the Duke of Nor.
folk, is afflicted with the triple misfortune
of being deaf, dumb and blind.
1t is announced that Pauline Lucca is
about to retire definitely from the operatic
stage and devote herself to teaching.
Queen Victoria's name is Victim, an
unromantic appellation, but known to
history as the family name of the house Of
Saxony.
Two books with marginal notes in Lu-
theirs handwriting have been discovered
in the municipal library at Zwickau, it is
reported.
Douglas Sladen, the Australian poet, is
spending the present month in Nepigon,
Ontario. Next month he will visit Mon
treal and Boston.
Rhoda Broughton is so years old, white
haired and sunny faced She has written
twenty-five books, but only ten of them
have been printed.
Prince Albert Victor is the only son Of
a Prince of Wales who has taken his seat
in the House of Lords before his fathers ac-
cession to the throne.
Nine. Mancini of Havre, France, is the
largest dealer in wild animals in the
world. She has almost rival in Frau
HarzeEbeck of Hamburg.
Senator and ex-Secretary of the Navy
William Eaton Chandler is reported by
some of his Concord IN. H. neighbors to
have become chronic invalid.
The Duke of Marlborough contemplates
an eight months visit to this country. 1t
is said he proposes to book the lines of
Brice's american Commonwealth"
c. H. Clover, President of the Farmers
Alliance, went to Kansas City years ago
almost penniless. Now he owns 1000 acres
of fine land, IS head of horses, 100 cattle,
and lots of farm machinery.
Mrs. Clusters most intimate friend is said
to be the actress, Clara Morris, between
whom and the widow of the brave and
handsome cavalry officer warm attach
ment has existed for many years.
Mary NJ. Whitney, who succeeded Maria
Mitchell as Professor of Astronomy at
Vassar College, advocates the study of
science for girls, with the express object of
disciplining their emotional natures.
Stepniak, or rather, the Russian who has
made that name famous (his identity is
somewhat of mystery to the public at
large, is to come to this country in De-
cember and lecture on Nihilism and kin
dred topics.
Tolstoi is getting some advertising in
Russia also. The Archbishop of Odessa
has just published pamphlet denouncing
"The kreutzer Sonata" in very strong
terms, as subversive of the sacred character
of the marriage law.
Steve Holcombe, the converted Louis
vile gambler, who is now one of the sue
cessful evangelists of the country, is a
slim, spectacled man, usually clad in a
closely y-buttoned Prince Albert coat. He
is brimful of nervous energy.
Prince Mohamed Burhaneddin, the FIVE
year-old son of the Sultan, Las just been
enrolled as a seaman on board of the Turk
ish frigate Orkhanie, and the officers
charged with the superintendent OF his
naval education have been appointed.
Carmen Sylvia, the Roumanian Queen,
was admitted into the Bardic circle at the
recent Welsh Eistedfodd and given the
blue ribbon of the order. She didn't have
to ride goat, but was compelled to listen
to the singing of a large number of Welsh
poems.
The salary of President Mcleod of the
Reading Railroad has been increased to
$4,000. The salary of Chauncey NJ.
Depew as President of the New York
Central is $4,000, which is the largest
salary paid to any railroad President in
the world.
Italian journalism has sustained loss
by the death of the Marchese Francisco
D'Arcais, the editor of the Diretto and the
acknowledged leader of the Italian press.
His death is the more to be regretted as
he was still comparatively young man,
having been born in 1880.
w. A. Sartoris, of England, an uncle OF
Nellie Grant Sartoris, has been making a
quiet tour of the West with view of max
ing some investments. 1t is his first visit
to America, and he expresses himself as
being much surprised at the great mineral
wealth and natural advantages of the
West.
John Whisi.er, the wealthy Pottawato-
smie, who died few weeks ago, was the
richest man in Indian Territory. He was
born in 1886 at Fort Dearborn, now Chi
cago, but had lived in Indian Territory for
twenty-five years. He leaves an immense
estate. His wife is a Sac and Fox of con-
siderable celebrity.
The Astor family proposes to perpetuatee
the family name in its most lasting and
characteristic simplicity; wherefore by or
der of the Court the name of John Jacob
Armstrong Astor, 4-year-old son Of Will
lam Waldorf Astor, has been boiled down
to match his grandfather and great-grand-
father, John Jacob Astor.
Victor La Fort, who began his notable
career as cook in Paris at the age of nine
years, is now a retired Pan-American mat
uralized) in Chicago La Fort, who is
now eighty years Old, was chef in several
famous establishments on either side of the
Atlantic, and was acting as cook for Maxi
milan in Mexico when that ill-fated En-
peror met his death.
1t is said that the drop of colored blood
in the veins of Mile. Jeannine Dumas,
the only unmarried daughter of the younger
Dumas, shows more conspicuously IN her
complexion and features than it does IN
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