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

PROMINENT PEOPLE.
A distinguished Corean scholar, Wa-Wa
Kacho, has arrived in this country to in
spect the American universities.
Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show
are now in Spain, where they are rivals in
popularity to the national bull-fght.
Ex-United States Treasurer Spinner is
now almost blind With an effort he can
write, but cannot read his own writing.
When Henrick Ibsen doesn't get his
favorite seat in Munich restaurant he
gets hot and shakes his fist at the intru-
der.
Judge Mcconnell, who presided at the
trial of the Cronin murderers in Chicago,
is taking rest at Pass Christian, Missis-
sippi.
Mr.. Gladstone is at work upon six i'm
portant works for magazines-one of them
being critical review of Tennyson's
poems.
Cardinal Newman is giving up a great
part of the active work in which he has
always engaged. He now rarely breaches
and writes little.
lola, meeting Amelia Rives-Chanler in
Paris, told her he had enjoyed "The Quick
and the Dead" but that he couldn't trans
late some of the words.
Senator Allison denies the report that
he is to be married He has all that he
can possibly attend to at the present time
| in looking after his reelection to the SEN
ate.
John Watts Kearney, son of the famous
General "PhiP' Kearney, has resigned as
nspector-General of the National Guard
of New Jersey on the staff of Governor
Green.
Professor Curtius, the historian, enjoys
the distinction of being the first German
elected to membership in the French
Academy of Inscriptions, since the Franco
Prussian War.
Governor Mckinley, of Virginia, Is one
of the most abstemious and temperate men
in the Old Dominion. 1t is said that he
has never uttered a profane word, nor
smoked or cnewed tobacco.
The Rev. Kinsley Twining, editor of
the New York Independent, is described as
large-framed, ruddy, blue-eyed, and white
haired, with a genial smile, a good diges-
ton, and a turn for humorous aneedote.
The death is announced, at the age of
sixty-eight, of the distinguished Oriental
ist, Pavet de Courteille, Professor at the
College de France, and compiler, in COM
pany OF Barber de Meynard, of Turkish
dictionary.
Cyrus w. Field is now three score and
ten years old, but still in active business
life. His first employment was as errand
boy for 4. I. Stewart at S2 a week. His
duties required him to open and sweep
out the store.
The Rev DR.. George c. Lorimer, the |
distinguished Baptist clergyman, formerly
of Boston, but for ten years past pastor of
the Emanuel Baptist Church of Chicago, |
has been recalled to Boston to the pulpit |
of the Warren-avenue Church.
The announcement that the Empress
Frederick and her daughters are to visit |
the King and Queen of Italy at Rome, has !
led to a report that an attempt will be |
made to arrange marriage between Prin- |
cess Margaret of Prussia and the Prince of |
Naples.
E. L. Bynner, the author of "Agnes Sur |
riage' and "The Begum's Daughter" is |
the librarian of the Law Library, of Bos-
ton. Arlo Bates says of him in College and |
School that he is fond of nature and of |
flowers, wholesome and sane man, with !
certain outdoor air about him that is re- |
freshing.
Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk, author of the
"Story of Margaret Kent" has most be-
witching, quaint and picturesque face.
She dresses with a lady-like grace and re-
inement, and her manners are sweet and |
cordial Her home at Germantown, Pa,
is gem of beauty, and the company one
meets there is distinguished for wit and
culture.
Dumas fils has begun to publish series
of hitherto unpublished maxims of his
life. The first is as follows: "When life
appears as God has made it there is moth
ing left but to thank him for having in
stituted DEATH" The last is: "Woman,
according to the Bible, was the last thing
created by God. He must have made her
on Saturday night, for the work shows
signs of fatigue"
and Gladstone, is eighty years old. He is
a small, slender man with a bright face,
dresses with taste and talks with ease
Ills NrSL verses were NTItJtIl db COlleS6 anu |
published in the college paper. sold
Ironsides" was originally published in the
Boston AdrertiSa-, in 1880, when he was
twenty-one years old. OF his poems, be
himself prizes "The Chambered Nautilus"
In speaking of the recent accident to
Emin Pasha, the Stuttgart Tdgbtda recalls
the fact that another German-African ex-
plorer had similar fate. Kaal Mauch,
having spent several years in the interior
of Africa, amid great dangers, returned TO
Germany and secured position as super
of a cement factory. One day,
leaning out of window in an upper story,
he lost his balance and fell on the side
walk. He died few days later, whereas
Emin yet survives.
1t is stated on the best of authority that
Miss Ellen Bayard, youngest daughter of (
of State Thomas F. Bayard, J
is engaged to be married TO Count Lewen-
haupt, of Sweden. Miss Ellen, who is ]
known to her intimate friends as Nellie, is
about twenty-ore years of age, and is, per-
haps, the most comely of the ex-Secre-
tary's unmarried daughters. Count Lew
anhaupt belongs to distinguished Swed-
ish family, and was an attache of the
Swedish legation at Washington during
Mr.. Bayards term as Secretary of State.