The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-27
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Nathaniel Thayer is called the Vanderbilt
of Boston. He has a fortune of $40, 900, O0O
invested for the most part in Western rail-
ways.
Frederick Livingston, in his ninetieth
year. continues to perform his duties as
President of the First National Bank in
Prtersboro, n. II.
The Belmont family. fearing an attempt
to steal the body OF the late August Bel
mont, buried at Newport, have established
nightly guard at the grave.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley is so tall and Mr..
Stanley is so short that when they are out
together and are seen from a distance he
looks like little boy out with his mother.
James p. Scott, son of Thomas A. Scott,
late President of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. proposes, by way of experiment. to
plant LOCO acres in rice near Kissimmee, Fla.
General Boulanger intends 10 winter in
Egypt, where he will spend the most of his
money, and in the spring he will start a
newspaper in Jersey, aud so get rid Of the
rest of it.
The Cars personal bodyguard of private
police consists OF fifteen specially liked
Cossacks. mature and tried men, These
have to keep watch in the kitchen and pri-
vate apartments.
Professor Koch's sister, Mrs. Alexander
Flelshnan, was once resident of Syracuse,
n. y, where she was music teacher. She
afterward went to Cazenovia, bit had so
little success she returned to Germany.
The Duke of Marlborough has Joined the
great army of American promoters, and it is
generally understood that he was taken into
camp by ex-Mayor of New York Hewitt
His business will be purely on commission.
hear that Eddie Gould, the second son
of Jay Gould, is going in for race-horses and
the sport Of the race-tracks next season.
George Gould took his wild oats pleasure in
encouraging the stage and dramatic art.-N.
Y. Press.
Gentlemen have been very lucky on the
French race-courses this year. NJ. Maurice
Ephrussi won SIS, 600; Barons Alphonse and
Gustave de Rothschid. about $4,000 each;
Baron de Schlickler, 100000, and NJ. Pierre
Demon, Baron de Saubeyran and NJ. Michel
Ephrussi between 100000 and $4,000.
Mime. Anne Marie Mozzoni will stand for
election to the Italian Parliament and is
asking for subscriptions to assist in meeting
her expenses. Mme Mozzoni is an accom-
plished authoress, and her agreeable man
ners have made her generally liked among
her large circles of acquaintance.
General Miles, while in Chicago. told a re-
porter that the most interesting relic in his
possession was the weapon with which Gen.
eral Custer was killed. General Miles saws
it makes him sad every time he sees it. He
may now add more pleasurabe relic in
the weapon with which Sitting Bull was
killed.
Professor Virchow of Berlin, pronounced
"the foremost pathologist of the world"
asks people to 20 slow about injecting Dr.
Koch's lymph into people. He says it is a
dangerous poison, as indeed nearly all med
ieeneS are, and thinks it would be better to
wait until Dr. Koch himself is satisfied with
his experiments.
Senator-elect Gordon. at the battle of
Seven Pines, received three bullet wounds,
and at Antietam he got two bullets in the
leg, one in the arm, one in the shoulder and
one in the right cheek. He also had horse
killed under him, the butt of his pistol
smashed, his canteen pierced and his coat
torn with bullets.
The Marquise d'Algeri. who is becoming
famous in Europe for her beauty and wit, is
known to the American public as Blanche
Roosevelt. Fifteen years ago she was
choir singer In Chicago. She had an oppor-
tunity of finishing her musical education
and while on the continent developed an
astonishing faculty for language and liter
ature. Her husband is the son of the Italian
Minister Of Posts and Telegraphs.
Artist Albert Bierstadt has recently been
visiting his old haunts in the Rocky Noun
tains. He first crossed the plains in 1869 with
the army Of ArgonautS from the East and
1t was then that he made the first sketches
for the paintings of western scenes which
gave him fame. For his last work, 1.-THE
Last Of the Buffalo," he spent thirty years.
The picture was in his mind when he fol-
lowed the trail to Pixies Peak thirty-one
years ago.
The Cars railway train, which is 20 be
the substitute Of the train wrecked in the
Borki accident two years ago, is at last COM
pleted, and few weeks ago its first success
inl trial trip was undertaken. Tie train
consists Of carriage for the Emperor and
Empress, an other for the heir apparent,
third for the Grand Dukes and the Grand
Duchessee, two for the attendants, two more
for the servants, a saloon carriage, kitchen
and workshop. Electric light has been
introduced, and the technical details are,
naturally. carried out with all the latest
improvements"