Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-02
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT,

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the famous Green vaults of Dresden.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
Charles A. Freeman, the new checker
champion, is descended from the Pequot
| Indians.
George Eliot's heretofore unpublished
letters are shortly to be issued in one vol
ume in England.
Mrs. Ella NJ. Clifford of New England
has presented $4,000 to the Richmond
Retreat for the Sick.
Ex-senator Emery is known among the
Pennsylvania Indians as "Old-Man-No OF
Afraid-of-a-Lawsuit."
Richard W. Thompson, ex-Secretary of
the Navy, has been in politics since 1884.
He is eighty-two years old.
Marshall Field, Jr, son of the Chicago
dry goods prince, has become a Catholic.
He did it to win the girl he loved.
General Boulanger is working hard on
his book, entitled 'Les Vraies Coulisses" !"
1t is defense Of the Generals political
methods.
There are now four widows of Supreme
Court Justices living in Washington, Mrs.
Waite, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Stanley Mat
thews and Mrs. Miller.
Speaker Reeds wife was the daughter of
a Congregational minister. and was a
school teacher. Their only child is To-
year-old girl, Catherine.
The home of Mary Washington, in
Fredericksburg, has been purchased by
the Society for the Preservation of Vir-
ginia Antiquities, for $4,000.
DIR. Grace Davenport, one of the five
women physicians of Texas; was recently
appointed First Assistant of the Insane
Asylum at Terrell, in that State.
A search for the oldest clergyman in
England shows that the Rev. J ohm Elliott,
Vicar of Radwick, will be 100 in three
months. He preached up to the age of 95.
Corporal Tanners daughter, who is pri-
vate Secretary to United States Treasurer
Huston, handles something like $4,000
600 cash every year. Her salary is 81, 800
year.
| General John NJ. Palmer of Illinois was
73 years old on the 18th of September and
celebrated it by delivering the thirtieth
speech of his canvass for the United States
Senatorship.
Commodore John Page of the Argentine
Navy, who died recently near the Bolivian
frontier, was native of Virginia, and had
served in the United States and Confed-
crate navies.
Congressman Miller, the newly-seated
colored member from South Carolina, has
only slight strain of negro blood in him.
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freckle-faced.
Charles Howard Shinn, for many years
editor of the Oyerlond Monthly at San
Francisco, has been appointed Director of
the Agricultural and Horticultural Ex-
pertinent Stations in California.
One of the highest Alpine ascents this
year was made by an American named
Meade, but the Swiss papers are more def
mite in their meads of praise than in stat
ing just what particular Meade he is.
When Bismarck left the university his
father gave him the estate of "Kniephof."
His neighbors soon changed the name to
"Kneiphof." Kniephof means nothing,
but Kneiphof is 'Rollickers Farm"
Benjamin Hill, the son of "Ben" Hill, is
writing biography of his father. An
other Southern biography soon to be pub
lished is that of Robert Toombs, prepared
by the editor Of the Augusta Chronicle.
Senator Brice's eldest daughter is a
pretty girl, somewhat above medium
hight, with a well-molded figure and a
graceful bearing. She is brunette, and
is good linguist and accomplished musi-
clan.
One hundred of the students and pro-
fessors of Johns Hopkins University have
organized so-called Travellers Club,
which will exist to be addressed by people
who have travelled in various parts Of the
world
Rubinsssin, in his autobiography, says
so per cent. of the Germans understand
music; 16 per cent. of the French, and
per cent. Of the English, while the United
States in that respect stands a little higher
than England.
Gustav Freytag, the most distinguished
of German novelists, lives in the pretty
town of Wiesbaden, where he occupies a
handsome villa. He is now tall, broad
sheuldered man of 5S, with fresh, healthy
color and fair hair.
Suit has been brought against Cincin-
natl lithographic firm for copying photo
graph of Mrs. Grover Cleveland. c. NJ.
Bell, of Washington, claims monopoly of
the trade under his copyright, and asks
for S34, 900 damages.
Annie Besant is the most eloquent
woman in all England. She is not young
or pretty; she hasn't any taste or money;
but she is better than the whole London
police force or the House of Lords when
there is mob to be controlled.
King Leopold of Belgium, who had a
three weeks celebration at Namur of his
birthday, is described as long man, with
a long nose and long beard-handsome
enough in hawk-like fashion-and a
King who, having nothing to do, does it
with admirable grace.
The popular German poet and novelist,
T. K. Roseger, is seriously i'll at Gratz,
and has been forbidden all mental work for
some time. Roseger, who in his youth was
a tailor, has never been very strong, and
having, like most German tailors, a tend
eney to consumption, he was cautioned a
long time ago to stop all work likely to
tax his brain. He gave no heed to the
warning, with the result that he is now
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