Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Speaker Reed has been made Ii. d.
by Bowdoin College.
William Carleton will spend part of
this summer at the Thousand Isles.
Mile. Fierens, who comes from Brussels,
is making some stir in Paris as soprano.
Donald g. Mitchell (''Ik Marvel') is 6S
years old and lives in pretty cottage near
New Haven.
Professor N. Lloyd Andrews, Dean of
the Faculty of the Colgate University,
will spend the summer in Europe.
Mrs. Anna Roush, of Letart, O., has
fully 1000 living descendants. She was
born in Morgantown, Pa, June A, 1877.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland's inheritance
from the real estate of her grandfather at
Omaha is said to be onesixteenth of $780,
600.
Mrs. Morris of Sheboygan, Wis, has in
her possession meerschaum pipe that be-
longed to the King of Denmark 23S years
ago.
Count Tolstoi developed bitter antipa-
thy toward physicians. During his receut
illness he refused the services of medical
men.
Henry Irving has received kangaroo
| from J. l.. Toole, the comedian, who is
now in Australia, and has presented it to
the Zoo.
Henry NJ. Stanley will come to America
next October to fulfill the lecture en-
gagement he broke off to go to Africa four
years ago.
Thomas A. Edison recently purchased
1000 acres of land in Moore county, S. c.,
where an attempt will be made 20 open
gold mines.
King Humbert's melancholia, which has
! necessitated his being watch day and night,
is said to have been caused by an excessive
| used of cigarettes.
Emperor William has bestowed the
upon Count Won Hatzfeldt, the German
ambassador to England
Franklin w. Smith, wealthy Bos-
tonian, has built at Saratoga an exact
copy of Pompeiian villa, his model being
the famous blouse of Pansa."
Nine. Carnot, the vile of the President
of France, is the mcst democratic of
women. She visits all classes, assists all
classes and is kind to everybody.
P. Tecumseh Sherman, son of General
w. L. Sherman, was one of class of
twenty-seven young lawyers admitted to
| the New York bar by the general term of
| Supreme Court recently.
Miss Anne Brewster, a society girl of
| New York, has gone on pleasure trip to
Siberia. 1t is the first case known of an
American girl going to the Siberian from
tier except for missionary work.
George Paunceiort, an English actor we'll
known in this country years ago, and for
time member of the stock company of
the Boston Theater, is now keeping a res
taurant near Yokohama, Japan.
Marguerite, the pretty Princess who is
going to marry her cousin, the Due dor
leans-"the Prisoner of Clairvaux"-has a
good temper, good manners, and various
musical and artistic accomplishments
Miss Elaine Goodale, the poetess, is
Government Supervisor of Education
among the Sioux. She lives in camp in
! the most primitive way, and travels from
one Indian village to another on horse
back.
One Of the leading assistants in the
establishment of the Botanical Garden at
Washington, and in laying out the grounds
of the Smithsonian Institution, was VIM.
D. Brackenridge. He has just celebrated
his eightieth year.
OF Professor John Fiske in private life
the Book Buyer says that he has an excel
lent baritone voice. and sings German and
English songs with expression, taste aud
ieellng de can also execute Beethoven
sonata upon the piano.
Like many another wise elderly man.
Francis Parkman, the historian, has taken
to gardening. and is as successful at it as
was Evelyn. He is particularly fond of
roses. He is writing again, having in
J great measure recovered his health.