Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Ex-King Milan of Servia pays $4,000
year for his house in Paris.
James Whitcomb Riley has resume,
his platform entertainments.
Arthur Rothschild has sold his famou
collection of postage stamps for the sum o
$4,000.
Justin Mccarthy regards Arthur Bal
four as one of the coming men in Englisl
politics.
The venerable Sir Edwin Chadwick, tn,
great sanitarian, uses no tobacco and eat
many green vegetables.
Lord Acton is considered the mos
learned man in England He has /:
library of 100000 volumes.
John Boyle O'Reilly, the Irish poet
editor, is out on the Pacific coast lectur
ing, but not with much success.
Count Victor Folliot Crenneville, Secre,
tary of the Austrian Legation at Wash.
ington, has gone home on short leave ol
absence.
The Duchess of Buckingham, whose
diamonds have made her famous the world
over, is spending some months in the
south of France.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward is to
| give some Boston readings from her own
writings, preparatory, perhaps, to tour
beyond the "Hub"
The largest individual taxpayer in Bos-
ton is J. Montgomery Sears, who paws
| $4,000 on S3,742,000 worth of real estate
and personal property.
Governor Gordon, commanding the
United Confederate Veterans, has ap-
pointed Governor Fitzhugh Lee of Vir-
ginia, Lieutenant General.
Hermann Kernpinski of Bridgeport,
Conn, who was imprisoned by the Russian
Government, has been released, and is ex-
pected in Bridgeport in May.
The wedding engagement is announced
of Miss Emily Newcomb, daughter of Pro-
fessor Simon Newcomb, to +. A. Wilson,
of the Youths Companion, Boston.
Mss. Pastora E. Humphrey, of Newport,
r. l., has given to Harvard University
$4,000 TO found the Henry Z. Humphrey
Fund for the benefit of students from
| Thomaston, Me-, or others if none from
there apply.
Prince George Of Wales has been ap-
pointed to the Excellent for short
course of gunnery. He has completed the
necessary qualifying service of four years
as Lieutenant, and probably will be pro-
NOTED Commander very soon.
Tippoo Tib, it is said, has been taught
draw poker by the American and Eng
lish explorers in Africa. The willy Arab
slaver's present stock of ivory is esti-
mated at eighty y-seven tons, so that it is
hopeless to attempt to bluff against him.
| Robert G. Blaine, brother of Secretary
Blaine, who has for some years held the
office of Curator of the Department of Ag-
riculture, has been appointed by Secretary
Rusk Superintendent of Quarantine Sta
| tions under the Bureau of animal Indus
| try.
The late Moses Taylor of New York
left about S3O0,O00 tor hospital at Scran-
| ton, Penn. For five years the building
has remained unfinished and neglected.
But recently orders were given to push
the work to completion as speedily as pos
sible
Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of "Rob-
ert Elsmere," is now high priestess of a
sort of Toynebee Hall in Gordon Square,
London, where the new religion outlined
in her famous novel is taught. Dr. Marti-
neau and Stopford Brooke are among her
prominent allies in the movement
The wife of Calvin S. Brice was, before
her marriage, Miss Olivia Nelly, teacher
in the public schools of Terre Haute, Ind.
| She began her career as a teacher at the
close of the war, and held her position in
school No. s, of Terre Haute, for five
d.
young lawyer Of Lima, 0.
Annie Besant, the English Socialist who
is about to visit New York, is tall thin
sad-faced woman, with wavy dark hair,
and the pluck of famingo." She edits
a labor paper called the KITE; is sister
in-law OF Walter Besant, the novelist; has
lately figured conspicuously and unsuc-
cessfully in an action for libel.
| The assassination of Alexander H. of
Russia is to be commemorated at st.
Petersburg by the erection of magnif-
cent church on the spot where the trag-
edy took place. A large sum had been
subscribed toward the work, which is be-
ing carried on under the auspices of a
| Vladimir is President. The confdent
|
in whom this aristocratic committee of
course mad "unbounded confidence" has
disappeared, and S250,000 has gone with
him, the melancholy result being that
the Emperor has insisted upon his brother,
the Grand Duke Vladimir, replacing the
deficiency out of his private fortune-an
order which has caused the relations be-
tween them to become decidedly strained.
Mr.. Stanley, says the Manchester Erami-
ner, is above all things man of action, a
man, in some respects, after the heart of
Thomas Carlyle. "Send him to God" is a
phrase short, sharp and decisive, which
the preacher who discoursed so eloquently
and at such length on the virtue of silence
would have made the text of many fruit
full and pithy comment. In an age when
the moral backbone is apt to be weak and
the sense of responsibility weighs like a
nightmare on the spirit of our rulers, it is
refreshing to come across a fellow creature
| who strong in the courage of his convic-
tions, and not afraid to act in consonance
with them, dares to do. Had Mr. Stanley
hesitated when the cowardly rascals whom
he had rescued, mutinied; had he allowed
himself to speculate as to what ''publiC
opinion" night say, the fate of the Emin
Pasha expedition might have been a very
different one. In the telse language of the
narrative she executed the ringleader. and
had no more trouble with traitors" The
moral of the story will be read differently
by men of varying casts of thought. Tc
the Bismarcks of this world, alive to the
fact that stern and prompt action is often
after all, the most humane in the long run
the words, depart to God" will ring ou
with sound like the commands of tn,
Prophets of the Hebrews Of old. Satisfied
that they have done-not merely talked
their best for the interests of the present
they are content to let responsibility" taxi
care OF itself. The Righteousness of thei
deeds they leave to be decided by their re
!. suits in the future.