Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

| One of the members of the editorial
staff of the London Times is w. NJ. Full.
erton, Harvard man of the class of sc
The wife of Count Tolstoi, the Russian
novelist, Is handsome woman, forty-siy
years OF age, and the mother of thirteen
children.
The Mojave Chief, Slow-Boat, who is
on his way to Washington, is 20 years Of
age, and has never before been out OF
Arizona Territory
Thomas H. Savery, owner of John
Browns fort at Harper's Ferry, saws tina,
the fort will probably soon be sold to a
Chicago syndicate.
The French titles of the late Due de
Montpensier pass to his grandson, Prince
Ferdinand d'Orleans, the younger son Of
the Comte de Paris.
Professor William Hyde Appleton has
declined to accept the Presidency O.
Swathmore College, to which position he
was recently elected.
| Lord and Lady Rosebery now live in
London in the Berkeley Square house
made famous for many years by the brill.
liant parties Of Lady Jersey.
Lady Butler, better known as Elizabeth
| Thompson, the painter of millinery sub
jects, has gone to Egypt to join her hus-
| band, who is on duty there.
Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead, widow
of the Rev. DR.. Mead, and cousin of the
Rev. DR.. Storrs, has been formally elected
President of Holyoke College.
Justice Lamar, of the Supreme Court Of
the United States, will deliver an address
at the commencement of the Boston Uni
versity Law School on June 4th.
Viscount Hampden, ex-Speaker of the
British House of Commons. has gone into
| trade as retail dealer In provisions. His
eggs and his butter are all stamped with a
coronet and a letter al"
The late Armand Augustin de Pont-
martin was for years the Oldest contributor
to the Gozette de France, the oldest news
paper in Paris. He had been associated
with Sainte Beuve, Blanche, Balzac, George
Sand and lola.
Bismarck in his private capacity carries
on the business of distiller, paper-maker
and farmer, and has recently added that of
| brick-maker, having established a large
brick-yard near Lauenberg, where fine
| bed of clay exists.
Professor Brooks, Director of the Smith
Observatory, has been awarded the medal
of the Astronomical Society Of the Pacific
for his discovery of the comet now in the
eastern heavens This medal is the first
one awarded by this Society.
Andrew Lang is pictured as tall, spare
and dark, with fine forehead, dark eyes,
and massive jaw. His hair is thin and
is streaked with white. He is very ner-
vous, and does not look robust. He has
the Oxford drawl and an irritating laugh
Joaquin Miller is spare-built, sharp
featured man of weird appearance, with a
broad, bald forehead, and suffers his tangled
name of hair TO fall carelessly on his
shoulders. He affects semi.clerical style
of get-up, and says abrupt things in a hol-
low voice.
Isaac Pi,man, of Photographic fame, is
over - years of age, but is still in active
professional work. He presides over the
Phonetic Institute at Bath, England; SUI
pervises large correspondence, edits a
newspaper and complies and publishes
many books.
Charles Emory Smith will astonish the
Russians at the court of st. Petersburg BY
abstaining from the use of intoxicating