Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-16
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

rope Leo mas sent the Shah OF Persia
the insignia of the Order of Plus Y.
The Portuguese African explorer, Major
Serpa Pinto, is only A years of age.
The Grand Duke Nicholas. uncle of the
Gar, is said to be mortally i'll from cancer
William Hughes, a brother of "Tom
Brown" Hughes, is native of Milton,
Mass.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards will remain in
this country only during the month of
March.
Andrew Lang, the leading literary man
in London, is talking of making visit to
this country.
Henry Gladstone, the fourth son of the
English statesman, is a member of firm
of East India merchants.
Miss Frances E. Willard, the well-known
temperance reformer, is inyestig .ting the
condition of workingwomen in Chicago.
1t is now said that Professor Nordensk-
jold will be able to start out on his An
tartic expedition in the summer of 1891.
Edward J. Phelps, ex-Minister to Eng
land, will resume his connection with the
Yale Law School at the beginning of the
winter term.
The wife of Senior Aguirre of Honduras
is an American lady, who as Miss Gertrude
Garrison is well known in the West for
her literary work.
Earl Spencer is about to sell his library,
which, it is said, contains probably the
best private collection of rare and curious
books in the world.
Baron Rothschild, the Paris banker,
lives in constant fear of the Communists,
and his valuables are secured behind al
most impregnable walls.
In memory of his wife, Thomas Nelson
Page, the author, has placed in the Moore
Memorial Church, in Richmond, beauti-
ful stained-glass window.
Prince Alexander, formerly King OF
Bulgaria, now commands regiment OF
Austrian dragons, and hopes to become a
General in course of time.
The richest people in Wales are the
Talbots, prominent among them being the
immediate family of the late father of the
English House of Commons.
Lord Hopetown, the new Governor of
Australia, is described as a small, delicate
looking man, but not in the ill-health that
his appearance might imply.
Nine. Antoinette Sterling, the we'll
long resident in England, has applied for
admission to the Society Of Friends.
Sultan Abdul Hamid is 43 years old
now and lives in constant fear of his ene-
mics. A guard of 10000 men accompany
him whenever he goes out to the Mosque.
General Don Carlos Buell.. having re-
tired from the Louisville, KY, pension of
flee, will hereafter give exclusive attention
to his coal mines and his Muhlenberg
farm.
The Duke of Palmetto is a patriotic
Portuguese nobleman who has offered all
the income from his property for year
for the purpose Of establishing coast de-
fenses for his country.
Ex-Governor Routt of Colorado, who
met with financial reverses after he passed
out of Office, has now recovered his fortune
and is worth several millions. accumulated
in mining enterprises.
The oldest clerk by continuous service
in the Sixth Auditors Office at Washing
ton is the Rev. Mathew A. Turner, who
was appointed in August, 1919, during the
Taylor Administration.
Professor Westphal, of Berlin, the dis
tinguished authority on mental diseases,
has succumbed to one of the forms of brain
trouble he was successful in treating in
others. His case is reported to be hopeless.
Admiral NJ Bowden Smith of the ROYAL
British Navy, one of England's delegates
to the Maritime Conference at Washing
ton, has a great many friends in this coun-
try and receives more invitations to social
entertainments than he can accept
There has been placed in the Manches-
ter, Mass, Public Library a copy of the
Bible published in 1899 1t is the gift of
Miss Ella Lee, daughter of the late Charles
Lee, to the Manchester Historical Society.
This rare and valuable publication is
known as the Bishops Bible, and was first
printed In 1868.