Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-10
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.

Senator ShermanS large fortune is SalC
to yield him an income of II per cent.
Mildred Conway, daughter of Moncure
D. Conway, is in Italy studying music.
Ward McAllister will help to maintain
the tone of Richford Springs this sum.
mer.
General Manager Beck of the Illinois
Central Railroad began life as train
hand.
The Empress Frederick has collected
$125,000 for the Children's Hospital in
Berlin.
General Boulanger is said to be writing
drama, with Robert Emmett as the cen.
trail figure.
The Empress Eugene is in Norway
travelling under the title of Comtesse de
Pierrefonds.
John P. st. John is stumping Nebraska
"for God and home and native land"-and
$50 and expenses per stump.
Governor Nichols of Louisiana should
join the Republican party. He doesn't
talk like Louisiana Democrat.
The King of the Sandwich Islands, Kali
akaua, accompanied by his sister, Priucess
Lelina, will visit England in October.
Samuel Day of Wesley, Me-, has killed
in twenty-five years 220 bears and cubs, for
which he has received $4,000 in bounties.
1t is announced that Chief Justice Nor
ton, of Massachusetts,. will resign his Of
fee next moath, after thirty-years of serv-
ice.
Ria Kittredge, of Belfast, Me-, has
written President Harrison's last message,
containing ten thousand words, on postol
card
A French scientist named Laborde has
announced the discovery of a new anes-
thetic, which he claims to be superior to
all others.
Nine. Albani will take her holiday in
Scotland, as usual, this year. Her mother
was Scotchwoman, hence her love for the
Highlands.
Minister Frederick Grant and Mrs
Grant are taking wo-months' holiday IN
the north of Germany and the Scandinav-
ian countries.
l Constance Fenimore Woolson has de-
cision of speech and charming way Of
going to the root of matter that makes
her delightful companion.
The Rev. E. r. Atwill, d. D., of Toledo
O., will in September be consecrated as the
first Bishop of the new Protestant Episco-
pal Diocese of West Missouri.
The German Emperor on his travels al
ways has with him big box filled with
the decorations of various orders, to be-
stow according to his philanthropic fancy
One of the bellies of Washington is Miss
Susie Bate, daughter of the Tennessee Sen
ator. She is vivacious blonde, rides well,
dances well and performs cleverly on the
banjo.
The Rev. Elisha Holland of Goldsboro
n. c., is growing younger as his years In
crease, paradoxical as it may seem. lie
is 80 years of age, and has just cut a
tooth.
Carlyle says that the unconscious actions
of great men alone give us their completed
work. Stanley's present work is full of his
unconscious greatness. 1t crops out every.
. where.
Emperor William has contributed TO-.
900 marks toward the fund which is being
collected for the purchase of the famous
Sulkowski collection of bric-a-brac and
curiosities.
1t costs the English Government ST.
962, 900 annually to support Queen Victo-
ria and her immediate family. 1t takes
$4,000 to defray the railroad expenses to
Balmoral on each visit of the Queen.
: The first colored female to graduate from
the department of music of the University
of Pennsylvania is Miss Ida E. Bowser.
She is an accomplished violinist and has
arranged several creditable compositions.
Captain Williams, resident of Jeffer-
sonville, who has been blind for twenty
five years, is recovering his sight. He is
of the opinion that the glare of an elec.
trio light in his room is effecting the cure.
The first Asiatic scholar ever presented
for graduation at Canadian university is
JUGS Kono, a young japanese, who re.
ceived the degree of B. A. and gold
medal for general proficiency, at Victoria
University, a. Coburg, Ont.
Herr Peter Lechner, connected with the
! Weather Bureau Service of Austria, is
known as the loneliest man in Europe. He
is stationed on the top of the Schonnblick
mountains, in the Austrian Alps. Some
times he does not see human fee for
months.