Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

Stanley's reception by the ROYAL Geo
graphical Society occurs May 5th.
George Meredith has been mentioned as
a possible successor to Lord Tennyson as
poet laureate
King Menelek, of Abyssinia, has ordered
a six-thousand-d dollar crown to be made for
him in Italy.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has made
considerable money from her Florida
orange groves.
John Ruskin is II years old, but still
has a great deal of vitality, and, on the
whole, carries his years we'll
Herr Krupp, the gunmaker, is the rich
est man in Germany. His income last
year was 81 $l,395,000, as against Sl,050,000
in 1888.
The increasing and apparently incura-
BILE deafness of the Princess of Wales has
become source of great annoyance to the
royal family.
Ivan Panin, the Russian lecturer, re-
/ CARDS the three kings of literature as Tolls
toi, Carlyle and Emerson, ranking them in
the order named.
1t is said that the marriage of another
daughter of the Prince of Wales has been
arranged, and that it will be publicly
announced in April.
The King of Spain has got over his i'll
ness, but his constitutional weakness is so
great that it is extremely unlikely that he
| will live to grow up.
When Henry NJ. Stanley is made life
member of the Savage Club, as is now pro-
posed, he will share that distinction with
| only the Prince of Wales and few Others
The Earl of Rosebery, who is spoken of
| as possible successor to Gladstone in the
leadership of the English Liberals, is a
suave-mannered, hard-working Scotch
| man.
General Boulanger is engaged by Alex
| ander Comstock, business manager of the
, New York Academy of Music, to visit this
! country next autumn and deliver thirty
| lectures.
The Khan of Khiva and the Emin of
| Bokhara are to make tour through
Europe this year; but the Russian Gov
ernment stipulated that they are not to.
visit England.
| An effort is being made to bring canoes
into fashion. The other evening Nine.
| Carnot wore a bandeau of canoes in her
hair, the front of her bodice being also
decorated with them.
| The oldest cashier in point of service in
! New York is Alexander Gilbert, of the
Fulton Bank. He was made cashier of
that institution in 1868, when he was
| twenty-four years of age.
| Fraulein Won Reindorf Lady y-in-Waiting
to the late ex- Empress Augusta of Ger
many received from her royal mistress a
legacy amounting to Sl2,500. She had
been in the royal service nearly fifty years.
William Oswell Livingstone, third and
last surviving son Of the famous African
traveller, died recently at ST. Albans, Eng,
shortly after he had dictated congratu-
latory letter to Stanley. Mr.. Livingstone
was born in South Africa, in 1851.
Walter de Rothschild, who has just been
admitted to partnership in the great fnan-
cial house that bears his name, is the
eldest son of Lord Rothschild and is Just
% years old. He is quiet and thought
| full young man, of an amiable character
aud retiring manners.
While the Due dOreans is Willing
away the time in his comfortable prison at
! Clairvaux by a devotion to gastronomy
| that hovers on the border-line of 'gour-
mandize," his more manly and intelligent
| cousin, Prince Henri, eldest son of the
Due de Chartres is engaged in exploring
the wilds of Central Asia.