Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-16
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

John Burns, the labor leader OF London,
is lover and student of books.
Russell B. Harrison has been elected
member of the New York Press Club.
John Morley is called the "grand young
man" in England. He is only ffty-four
years old.
Joseph Manlove is making money run
ming water farm in Indiana He raises
only fish and frogs.
Father Ignatius the evangelist monk of
the English Church, is now at the Hotel
Huntington, Boston.
The heirs of John Ericsson have pre-
sented the inventors models to the Metro
politan Museum, in New York.
Edward Bethany thinks of starting
weekly in New York. Primarily it will
be an organ of the Nationalists
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas Prohibition ora
tor, weighs 200 pounds. Her husband at
| tends to the household affairs at Wichita.
Joseph Shower, a Denver bootlack, is
| worth $4,000. He has a farm of $50
acres, a fat bank account and works fifteen
hours day at his trade.
Mayer, who took the part of Christus in
the passion Play" at Oberammergau, re-
ceived $500 for his share in the presenta-
ton of the religious drama.
Rochefort has fought twenty eight duels
during his career as a pamphleteer and
editor, having been wounded in seven of
| them, and escaped unhurt in the remain
| ing sixteen.
Ivan Petrof, the Superintendent of the
Census enumeration of Alaska, estimates
its population to be between 81, 900 and
$4,000, about one-seventh of whom are
white people.
The Wilkie Collins memorial, for which
something over 81, 800 has been raised, will
take the form of small library of choice
fiction, to be presented to the London
Peoples Palace"
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen
have presented gold watches and lockets
to the engineer and fremen of the train
which was derailed while conveying them
through the Rockies.
| DIR. Tuwing announced to the Prudential
Committee of Plymouth Congregational
Church at St. Paul, Mimi, recently, that
he would accept the Presidency of the
Western Reserve University, at Cleveland,
Ohio.
The proud distinction of being the old
est widow in England is claimed by Sarah
Moofew, who has lived for over fifty years
in cottage on House Common, Richmond,
and is reported to have celebrated 104
birthdays.
John Hackley, who has given hun
! i. Al Il l,hror,- h,,il1inc, 10
Muskegon, Mich, worked his way from
Baltimore to that city twenty years ago. a
poor boy, on lumber vessel. He made a
fortune in lumber.
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.
Mrs. Mona Card, whose theories on
matrimony have made her famous, is a
slender woman of pretty figure. Her hair
is brown and wavy. She is restless in
manner, and is said to be an occasional
victim Of nervous prostration.
Several of the large institutions for
women in England have organized fire
| brigades composed exclusively of women.
The ladies understand and perform their
duties well, but have not yet found a
costume that is entirely satisfactory.
One of the clerks in the navy pay Office
in San Francisco is Colonel Antonio Fran
cisco Gomez. He is Parsee and when
in India his name was Rustumjee Conjee.
His ancestors erected some of the most
magnificent palaces of ancient India.
w. Seward Webb, President of the
Wagner Palace Car Company, has received
the appointment of Inspector of Rifle
Practice on the staff of Governor Page of
Vermont. Mr.. Webb is proprietor of the
Shelburne farms on Lake Champlain.
The sister of Heinrich Heine, who cele-
brated her ninetieth anniversary the other
day, says it is not true that she is to give
to the world some unpublished writings of
the poet, as all the manuscripts left by him
were destroyed in the great Hamburg fire.
Among those who danced at the ball
given at Brussels on the eve of the battle
of Waterloo, was the present Georgiana,
Dowager Baroness de Ros, of London, who
is ninety-fve years old. She was daugh-
ter of the Duke of Richmond, who gave
the ball.
Baron De Lutz, who lately died, was at
one time Prime Minister to Louis Ii. of
Bavaria, and man peculiar and fond of
mystery. Once, being seriously wounded
in both legs, he employed separate sur
geon for each, and compared their respect
i've methods of treatment.
The Anti-Tobacco Society of France has
| Just lost its doyen-a II. Renaudin, who
died at Vile Evrard in his 106th year
| He had not used tobacco once in his life,
according 10 his own boast, and was invari.
ably named in the pamphlets of the So
| ciety as a proof Of what non-smoking can
| do for man.
Sister Rose Gertrude, the pretty young
English woman, who created great sensa-
ton by attempting to spend her life
among the lepers of Molokai, one of the
Sandwich Islands, is now a governess in
the family of John Eng, Superintendent
of the Interisland Steam Navigation Com
pany at Honolulu.
William Waldorf Aston was offered FIVE
cents a word for story of $4,000 words
Mr.. Aston accepted the offer, conditioned
upon his being able to find good theme
during his present trip abroad. He said
the pay was not of much consequence to
him, but he would accept the honorarium
and devote it to some worthy object.
Judge Cedercrantz, of Sweden, who was
appointed Supreme Judge of Samoa by the
King Of Sweden, under the recent treaty
between the United States, England and
Germany, is expected to arrive in Wash
ington few days hence. He will have an
interview with Secretary Blaine, and will
probably reach his new post about the
middle of the month.
Judge Stephen J. Field, who has sat on
the bench of the United States Supreme
Court for more years than any Of his fell
low Justices now living, was "a years old
on the 4th, and feels good deal younger.
Born in Haddam, Conn, November 4, 1916,
he was appointed to his present place by
President Lincoln in 1863 Judge Field
belongs to long-lived family and dis
tinguished one.
Eugene Field tells this story in one of
II, opJon 1ottorc Mr. Gladstone ron