Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-07
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.

Martin Irons, the man who led the strike
on the Iron Mountain Railroad, now sell;
peanuts in St. Louis railway depot.
John Ruskin is now physical wreck
The author of ''The Stones of Venice" is
Just past the allotted three score and ten.
Alexander Dumas is said to do his best
literary work when seated in evening
dress at table brilliantly lighted by wax
tapers.
An old carriage in which A. III. Steph-
ems used to drive around Georgia on his
speech h-making tours is offered for sale at
Charlottesville.
"Mose" Jacobs, a Des Moines, Ia, news
boy, has fortune of $4,000 invested in
real estate. He is one of the best known
persons in Iowa.
A brother of John Dillon, the Irish
leader, is lawyer in good practice in
Castle Rock, Douglas county, Col. He is
graduate of the University of Doublin.
Oscar Wilde plays on the piano, and he
has been confiding to the public that when
he plays Chopin he feels as though he had
been crying over sins that he had never
committed.
Charles Emory Smiths defense of Rus
sia, in the Philadelphia Press was a
brilliant plea. But now the writer is an
ambitious diplomat as we'll as an accom-
plished editor.
The young Duchess of Leinster, who has
been called the prettiest woman in Eng
land, is tall and slender, stately and calm,
with perfectly chiseled features. She is
an autocrat from crown to toe.
A native Corean, DR.. George Wisely,
has made application to be registered as a
practicing physician in Philadelphia. He
has a diploma from Chinese medical
college and from St. Petersburg Russia
Moussa Bey has been banished to Mecca,
punishment he processes to like. He
says banishment is much better than the
bowstring besides which, banishment to the
Holy City is really prize package, SO to
speak, as such things go.
The st. Petersburg Zeitung attaches po-
litical significance to the bestowal upon
Chancellor Won Caprivi of the highest
Russian decoration, and says there is
ground for belief in peaceful co-existence
OF Russia and Germany.
Miss Rhoda Broughten, in a charming
book-lined study in one of the most pic
turesque old houses in Oxford, writes the
books which have produced so many smiles
and tears in Finland and America. She
lives with her sister, Mrs. Newcome.
Another American heiress who is soon
to become one of the English upper ten"
is Miss Garner, a cousin of Lady Vernon.
She is engaged to marry Sir William Cor
on-Cummings, a Colonel in the Scots
Guards and a handsome man besides.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Cooley, of Michigan,
has been appointed one Of the lecturers at
the Yale Law School, under the fund
established in memory of the late Lucius
f. Robinson. Mr.. Cooley is genial gem
tleman, as well as very able lawyer.
DIR. Pellegrini, the new President of the
Argentine Republic, is of Italian origin.
He is a skilled fnancier, as was shown
some years ago by his negotiations of TIE
Buenos Ayres loan with the Barring Broth
ers, of London. He once held the Ministry
of War.
Count Won Moltke will complete his
ninetieih year on October 9th, and the
occasion will be celebrated throughout
Germany by series of popular fetes. The
Kaiser intends to confer on the distin-
guished soldier as especial mark of the
Imperial favor.
The gold smelling g-bottle, valued at
$500, which Mrs. w. A. Slater dropped in
New London Conn harbor, while on a
yachting trip, has been found by diver.
Captain Scott, after hunting week for it,
He returned it to the owner and was well
paid for his trouble.
The Democratic nominee for Congress in
the First Louisiana District, General
Adolph Meyer, is a native of New Orleans
and of Jewish parents. He was educated
iu the University OF Virginia and served
in the Confederate army. His wife is a
sister of ex-senator Jonas.
Jules Simon, the French statesman and
philanthropist, doubtless owes a deal of
his freshness, at the age of II, to minis
tering angel in the person of his wife.
After being first rate as professor, lee
turer, parliamentary orator and writer of
sigularly attractive though illogical"
works, he has come OUT as brilliant jour
nalist.
n week ago -hr. anu MFs. 0idustoue rc-
ceived hundred deaf mutes from Man.
chester at Hawarden. Mr. Gladstone ad-
dressed them in short speech, which Mrs.
Gladstone rendered into the deaf and
dumb alphabet, to the great contentment
of the visitors, who returned much pleased
with their kind reception.
Germany does as well by its royal fam
ily AS England. Princess Victoria, sister
of Emperor William, is to be married this
fall, and the German Government will
give her dover Of $50, 600 and an annuity
Of $4,000 for life. The people of England
may be thankful that here is one of Queen
Victoria's grandchildren who will receive
her marriage dover from another source
than the reveHes of England.