Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


complete the biography of her husband
before she sails for Europe in May.
Miss May B. Russell, sister of Sir
Charles Russell, the English barrister. is
Sister of Mercy on the Pacific coast.
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, known
in literature as Carmen Sylvia, is said to
have broken down in health completely.
NJ. Dubois, who was the famous Wander
bilt cook, is now in San Francisco, where
he is engaged as chef of the Palace Hotel.
The Hon. George B. Loring, United
States Minister to Portugal, will spend the
rlonth of March in Italy, on leave OF abb
sence.
Miss Clara Mcknight, an 1S-year-cld
lady of Ironton, Ohio, has passed salts
fictory examination, and been admitted as
pension attorney.
The King and Queen of Italy welcomed
tie Empress Frederick and her daughters
upon their arrival at Rome, and escorted
tdem to their hotel.
John B. Clark, for six years Clerk of the
House of Representatives, has left the en-
ploy of the Government and has become a
member of a law firm.
sZina Skobeleff, a sister of the famous
General Skobelef, is now the Duchess
Ieuchtenberg, and one of the leaders of
society at st. Petersburg.
IF. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is pro-
feient in ten languages-German, French,
Italian, Latin, Greek, Sanscrit, Arabic,
Persian, Russian, and Turkish.
Robert Louis Stevenson stopped at Sa-
uiDa on his way from Australia to the
United States, and it is said that he in
tsnds to stay there long time.
THE second woman lawyer was admitted
4, the Bar in Philadelphia few days ago.
| She is Miss Rebekah E. Roberts, and was
preceded by Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore.
Dr. Van der Heyder, of Yokohama,
Who is now travelling in this country, is
| volapuk enthusiast, and has published an
elaborate Volapuk-Japanese grammar and
dictionary.
DR.. Gruscha, Vicar Apostolic of the I'M
perial Austrian armies and Bishop of
Carrhae in partibus. has been elected Arch
bishop of Vienna, in succession to the late
Cardinal Ganglbauer.
Queen Victoria usually drinks at dinner
pale sherry from beautiful golden cup
which has come down from Queen Anna.
The table is always lighted with candles,
placed in golden candelabra
Count Wilhelm Bismarck, the second
son of the Prince, is pre-eminently the
favorite of his father. He is man of
ability, and holds the prosition of Gov
ernor of the province of Hanover.
Professor Angelo Heilprin, of the Phila-
delphia Academy of Natural Sciences, will
head an exploring party that will make
thorough investigation of the interior and
little-known regions of Mexico and Yuca-
tan.
NJ. Vaudal, who recently died in Paris,
was Postmaster-General of France under
the Second Empire, and one of his special
duties for the Government was 20 open
private letters that passed through the
postoffice.
Prince Schwarzenberg has resigned his
post as President of the National Museum
of Prague, owing to a resolution lately
taken by the Town Council to erect COM
memorative tablet to John Huss in that
institution.
James D. Reid, who has been appointed
United States Consul at Dunfermline, is
commonly called "the father of the tele-
graph" having personally handled the first
Presidents message ever sent across the
4 Alleghanies by wire.
| 1t is said that Mrs. Cleveland will write
a series of articles for New York publi-
cation, emitting them "reminiscences of
the White House." Mrs Cleveland is le-
veloping into a large woman, perfectly
English in size and proportions, but her
intimate friends say that she retains a
6neness and delicacy of character not often
! found in large women. She is thoroughly
domesticated in her Madison avenue home,
which is the center of quite circle of
fashionable and notable people.
The late C. r. NJ. Talbot, NJ. P, "the
Father of the House of Commons" was
also one of the early fathers of the women's
movement in England. At time when
it was considered ridiculous to claim polit-
ical or social freedom, Mr.. Talbot took his
stand on their side. He was one of the
few members who, in 1867, supported John
Stuart Mill in his amendment to the re-
form bill which would have substituted
the word ''person" for finale" in its en-
franchlsing clause.
"King Milan ought to be in very COM
Portable circumstances" says an English
newspaper, 'for his allowance from the
Servian Government is el 900 per month,
paid without any deductions; and, in or
der to prevent him from making indiscreet
and embarrassing revelations, the Emperor
of Austria gives him e400 per month. 1t
| is reported at Berlin that Milan informed
| the Emperor of Austria that he was about
to write his "reminiscences, in the hope Of
adding to his inadequate income, and the
hint was promptly taken"
"Lord Napier owed much of his sue
cess" says the London World, "to his
power of endurance, great strength, and
to his wonderful capacity of being able to
get sleep at almost any moment, under
any circumstances, and for as long time
as necessary. No one, perhaps, ever pos
sessed it to so marked degree, and
brother officer, who was with him in his
expedition against Tantia Topee, used to
saw that while they always considered
him most brilliant and able soldier, they
thought that he was not likely to live
very long, for he was always dropping off
to sleep without the slightest warning,
which we considered sign of great weak
ness"
Lieutenant W. G. Stairs, Mr.. Stanley's
right-hand man in his recent expedition,
in private letter TO friend, gives some
thrilling details of the hardships and
losses endured in their wanderings. "One
of our greatest dangers" he says, "has
been from starvation in the immense for
est between the Congo and Albert Nyanza,
which was found to be on open, grassy
country. In the forest we lost, out of GOO
Zanzabaris, some 500; also 16 small boys,
and about 40 Nubian soldiers. This was
en- route to the Pasha- The loss of life
since leaving the Albert Nyanza has been
200. In this forest for three weeks we
lived on roots and fungi. Our men died
| like dogs, and we whites were just about
pegged out when we reached food"
Mr.. William D. Howels has talked with
a Boston 4dratiser reporter about the ap-
pointment of his brother, Mr.. J. P. How
eli. as Postmaster at Jefferson, Ohio. II
| had nothing whatever to do with infiu-
encing the appointment of my brother"
he said. "He occupied the same position
under Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield
and Arthur. He was removed by Mr..
Cleveland because he was Republican,
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