Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

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year on the 2lst Of February.
Pope Leo has quite lost his cough and
is recovering his usual health.
David Christie Murray, the English au-
thor. Is coming to the United States next
autumn.
! Ex-Chief-Justice Agnew of Pennsylva-
MIA is threatened with the loss of the use of
his eyes.
j. &. Osgood, the well-known publisher
of Boston in former days, is now on his
way home from England.
The head of Gladstone has grown so
that now his hats are fully size larger
than he could wear twenty years ago.
| Professor Goodwin, of Columbia College,
has purchased house at Washington, n.
H., where he will make his summer home.
Young George Hugo, grandson of the
| French poet, has been distinguishing him
self by trading on his inheritance and Civ
ing notes for $4S, 900 in return for $4,000
| in cash.
The oldest veteran of the Napoleonic
wars is believed to be the matchmaker
| Goering of Otterson, near Hamburg, Ger.
many. He is 105 years old, and in 1912 wit
messed Napoleon's flight from Russia.
| Miss Alice Parker was admitted to the
| Middlesex Mass county bar recently, the
third woman to take that step in Massa..
chusetts. She is of Massachusetts birth,
but has been practicing law in California.
Now it is said that Robert Louis Ste
venson, the novelist, will not return to this
country to live, but wills permanently
| in rha LII
where he has purchased several hundred
acres of land.
The Prince of Wales has abandoned his
intended trip to the Riviera, and in conse-
quence thereof quite large number of
English and American people have sud
denly changed their plans and will remain
in London and Paris.
| r. c. Woo, of the class 'S9 of Kenyon
College, Gambler, O., according to recent
advices from Nankin, China, has been APP.
pointed Deputy Secretary of Foreign At
fairs, a Nice-Regal Interpreter, and Pro-
fessor in an academy.
There has just died at Keswick, Eng
land, in her S0th year, Mrs. Stanger, who
In her youth was on terms of intimacy with
the families of Wordsworth, Southey, Shell
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most interesting "reminiscences.
DIR. Won Dollinger some time before his
death intrusted the translation of his last
work, Academic Studies" to an English
lady, Miss Ware. Her English version
is now completed and in the printers
hands, and will be published in few
weeks. These essays include the "Jews
IN Europe" Dante" " Madame de Main
tenon,' etc
Lord Salisbury, who in his younger days
was as lank and abnormally thin as his
nephew, Arthur Balfour, the Secretary for
Ireland, has now become exceedingly stout,
and even unwieldly. While staying at
Sandringham with the Prince and Prin-
cess OF Wales few weeks ago, he was per-
suaded to permit himself to be weighed,
and tipped the beam at $50 pounds.
kinlock Cook, who has been appointed
by the British Government to the post of
Judge at Samoa, with salary of $4,000,
has been for several years past the Private
Secretary of the Earl OF BGnraven. In
| addition to these duties he held the edi-
torship of the English Illustrated Magazine.
lie is barrister, and is credited with a
profound knowledge Of Samoan affairs.
Sir William White, the British Embas-
sador TO the Sublime Porte, is big, burly
Briton, and as clever as he is big. His
voice would be audible in storm at sea
without the ais of speaking trumpet,
and his mind is as acute as his lungs are
strong. His hair and his long bushy
beard are snowy white. The Russians
nickname him the English Ignatieti''
Faince Albert OF Monaco announces his
inteGtion of devoting the $150,00e which
he derives every year from the proprietors
of TIE gambling table to making improve
ments in his estate, and to completing the
cathedral at Monte Carlo. The Prince
can well afford TO Dispense with this aanu-
ity, for he inherited an immense fortune
from h6 miserly father, and his wife is
enormously rich.
'Bismarck's Last Waltz forms a very
picturesque page" says the Poll MaH Go
1ette, " in Nine. Carette's new volume of
memoirs OF life in the Tnileries. II was
in 1867, when the King of Prussia visited
the Paris Exhibition, ball was given ia
ma honor, and while the ostillion was be-
ing danced Prince Bismarck stood aside
and looked on, when Nine. Carette stepped
up to him, offering bunch of roses, there
by implying that in the ladies tour she
invited him to be her partner The aow-
ers were accepted, and Bismarck waltzed
with his lady through the crowd, to the
astonishment and amusement of all pres
ent When the dance was all over. the
great man took an artificial rosebud from
his buttonhole, handed it tC the lady with
the words, will you keep it in memory OF
the last waltz | shall ever dance, and
which | shall not forget?p