Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-04
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is said to be the
best Greek scholar of her sex in this coun-
try.
King Leopold speaks and writes English
perfectly, and writes a letter to Queen
Victoria every Sunday.
Sims Reeves, the famous tenor. will
soon close his public career, and is already
arranging for his farewells.
Lord Harrington will return to England
from Egypt very soon, but will not at
present engage actively in public affairs.
The Princess Letitia, widow of the Duke
of Aosta, thinks of going to England to
live after her six months of mourning are
over.
Louis Kossuth, ex-Dictator of Hungary.
is still in good health at the age of 81. He
is at Turin, where he lives a very quiet
and methodical life.
Ex-Minister of France McLane has been
in public life nearly half a century. He
fought in the Florida war and was a mem
Der of Congress in 1S47.
The Car of Russia has issued an edict
abollshing the German Court Theater in
st. Petersburg. A French company will
succeed to the vacancy.
Pere Monsabre, who has been the FASH
ionable Lenten preacher at Notre Dame.
Paris, for seventeen years, will retire from
the pulpit at the close of the present
season.
The late DIR. Loewig, of Breslau, was
the Oldest professor of chemistry in Ger
many. He was born in 1S03 began lectur-
ing in 1880, and was Bunsen's successor at
Breslau.
Miss Edison, daughter of the great in
ventor, has been entirely cured of epi-
lepsy says the American Register, by Pro-
fessor Fielder, body physician of the King
of Saxony.
Prince Bismarck speaks English with a
German accent and a rather old-fashioned
pronunciation, but his mastery of the
language is complete and his knowledge of
its literature is very great.
A Norwegian sailor named Sundswall is
a lion of London society Just now. He
navigated small boat from Christiania
in Norway to the Thames single handed,
and thinks of continuing his cruise to the
United States
Senator Brown of Georgia has had a
long public service. He is 20 years old.
and has been State Senator, Presidential
Elector, Governor for four terms, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia,
and United States Senator.
A servant of the Queen of the Belgians
was lately stricken with apoplexy The
first aid that some Queens would have
thought of would have been an aid de-
camp to fetch doctor, but she turned in
and doctored the servant herself. And
the servant recovered.
Philadelphia has lost favorite citizen
in George II. Stuart, the philanthropist.
who as head of the United States Christian
Commission during the war was instru-
mental in raising S6,000,000 used to pro-
mote the spiritual and temporal welfare
of the officers, soldiers and sailors of the
army and navy.
General Won Caprivi has banished the
detectives who used to watch night and
day before Prince Bismarcks palace when
the latter was Chancellor. Caprivi saws
that he is soldier and can take care of
himself Perhaps it has also occurred to
him that no one would take the trouble to
try at his assassination, whereas Bismarck
was grand game for the socialists
Inc 1IuotceS vi the LaWrencevliIe
school have selected the Rev. Charles l..
Thompson, pastor of the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York, to de-
liver the Founders Day address at the
annual commencement on June Sd. This
is the address which in former years has
been given by the Hon. w. c.. Breckin-
ridge, Drs. Cuyler, Storrs, Taylor and
Hall.
Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Andrew
Lang and Lewis Morris are among the
noted poets who are contributing sonnets
of homage to Beatrice, all of which are to
be read at the Beatrice celebration in
Florence in May and June. The auto
graphs Of the sonnets will be framed and
chung in perpetuity" in the new Sala
Dantesca, now being added to the National
Library.
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