The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-18
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Jay Gould wears no iewelry except a gold
shirl-stud.
Tile King of Sweden is said TO have a first
cousin living In Lynn. Mass.
Secretary Tracy is accused OF having Senatorial
ambitions and desire TO succeed Senator
Eyarts.
The eldest member of Lord salisbury's Cabinet
is Lord CranbroOs, who Is 76 years OF age. Lord
Salisbury Is 80.
Ex-King Milan OF SerYIa is known while In
Paris as Count de Eakovo. lie Is very dark
man OF robust physique.
to sing Till late in the season. He has been
obliged TO decline all offers until fall
The Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott writes in the
Christian Union In favor OF opening the Libraries,
museums aud art galleries on Sunday.
z. I. Barnum's fortune is estimated at
SI1,ooo,o 900, every cent Of which lie has accu-
mulated since lie reached his fortieth birthday
Joseph P. Hazard, wealthy spiTitualist Of
South keuslngtou. Il. l.. Will erect huge tower
at that place and dedicate ii TO the advent OF
modern splritualism.
Count Dllon's friends say that he has been
compelled to 90 into trade TO make good the
money losses lie sustained IN trying TO make
General Boulanger dictator OF France.
Prince BsmarcK, seen strlding recently through
the groves of friedrchsruh. Park, was mani
testify as sound in wind and limb as the toughest
of his foresters or tile hardest OF his keeperS.
Count Tostoi has valuable assistant In his
eldest daughter, who attends TO all his business
correspondence and sends answers TO nearly all
personal letters without disturbing her father.
line common dtthCuintut OI q DOy LOT Ills nurse
has been carried 10 the extreme by Herr Ger
hardt, a wealthy Bremen mel chant, who has just
married the woman who was once his wet-nurse.
Mrs. JEFF Davis has received from her pub
fishers check for S2S19 %, being her half OF a
royalty on TWO mouths sales OF tue memorial
volume Of her husband, prepared by j. William
Jones.
Madeleine Lemaine, who Is one OF the most
successful and distinguished OF modern French
artists, has beauty well as talent. She Is
tail brunette. with charming manners, soft. dark
ewes aud a sweet aud intellectual face.
Seafen a Parisian who made millions out OF
the Panama Canal, has gone 10 Egypt IN the III.
terest OF the project TO convert the Desert OF
Sahara into an inland sea- anu If the pubic isn't
alert he may make millions out OF this scheme
also.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe at 10 years is IN
the same feeble state of mind and body that she
has been for Two years past. She spends much
OF her time In The open air, and Is carefully
watched over by her daughters at her Hartford
home.
Queen Isabella Is very witty when she likes.
She was once at a gathering where no fewer
than four Kings OF spain were announced.
These were her son, her husband, Don Carlos
and the ex-King Amadeus, King OF Savoy.
"fhere are enough OF u.s." said The Queen, ito
make salad"
Johann Martin schleyer. who gave volapuk 10
tho world, is quite satisfied with the progress
the new world language" has made in the first
ten years Houses all over the world are con-
Quoting their correspondence Ia IL, IL Is stated,
and there Is now library of over 1900 volumes
on Voiapuk, while millions have become ac-
quanted with its use.
DR.. Skilkakowsky, a famous physician In Rus
sia, has received what Is said TO be the largest
fee that was ever PAID to o doctor in that cuun-
try. millionaire residing 10 Odessa summoned
him specially to come there TO perform some
surgical operation. He performed the operation
and was in Odessa but i've hours receiving
IL 900 rubles, or $4,000. as lee for his trouble