Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Chauncy Depew is a cousin in the third
degree of both Senator Evarts and Sena-
tor Hoar.
Speaker Reed has new private Secre-
tary. He is Forrest Goodwin, a former
baseball player.
Ex King Milan of Servia is one of the
most reckless gamblers now in Paris. He
is generally favored by good luck.
The daughter of the Duke of Portland
will be called Victoria Dorothy, and the
Queen will be godmother of the child.
Jennie c. Wilder, sister of Marshall P,
the humorist, is said to be almost as great
success as her brother on the platform.
The poetess, Miss Louise Imogene
Quincy, is a firm believer in exercise. She
thinks nothing of walking twenty miles
day.
William Penn Whitehouse, who has
just been appointed to the Supreme Bench
of Maine, was law student with Senator
Hale.
Mrs. General Grant is said to have
failing for candy. A box of bonbons can
at work
The Prince of Wales has become
charmed with the typewriting machine
He has ordered number of them for his
secretaries.
DR.. Rosa Kerschbaumer is the first
woman hcensed to practice medicine in
Austria. She is said to be an uncommonly
able oculist
The startling announcement that Kaiser
no. m Of
of sanity before him is made by some of
his physicians.
At the age of eighty-fve, the Rev. DR..
Martineau has written book urging peo-
pie to reject modern Christianity and come
back to Christ
The Princess Stephanie, the widow of
the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria,
will shortly appear as the authoress of a
book of travels
The Empress Eugenie has become very
much of a recluse, and is preparing me-
mortal of the late Emperor Napoleon and
the Prince Imperial.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll is growing quite
stout, but he cannot be prevailed upon
either to take exercise or to overcome this
tendency by dieting.
Mary Sheridan, the eldest daughter of
the late General Sheridan, and her two
sisters, are day pupils at Catholic con-
vent in Washington.
The deafness of the Prince of Wales is
increasing, and is apparently incurable. 1t
is something of very serious moment to the
future ruler of England
William Dean Howells, the novelist,
lives in delightful apartment house on
Commonwealth avenue, Boston. He is
devoted to out-of-door rambles.
Prince Bismarck is hard at work ON his
"Reminiscences" Two secretaries are aid
ing him in his task, one of them being the
assistant doctor of Schweninger.
One of the Democratic candidates for
Congress in the Nineteenth Pennsylvania
District, named John G.. Comfort, paws
taxes on thirty-five hunting dogs.
King Malietoa of Samoa has become
quite 'chummy" with Robert Louis
Stevenson, who seems to be enjoying him.
self very much on the faraway Pacific
island
The two daughters of the Spanish Queen
are nine and eleven years old, respectively.
They talk Spanish, French, German and
English fuently, and are strong, healthy
looking children.
General Won Caprivi, the present Ger
man Chancellor, is beloved by the army.
He is described as just man. thoughtful
and almost tender toward subaltern Off
GERS in their straits
The Comtesse de Paris, wife of the
French pretender, is passionaiely fond of
horses and great sportswofnan. A few
years ago she was considered one of the
best shots in France.
Vicar Apostolic of Thibet, Able Desgo-
dius, who has spent thirty five years in
missionary work on the Chinese border, is
now in France publishing a dictionary of
the Thibetan language.
George Ebers, the Oriental scholar, is
paralytic, but manages to do great
amount of work. He is of decidedly
Teutonic appearance, having blonde hair
and beard and blue eyes.
The Hon. Bayless w. Hanna. late
United States Minister to the Argentine
Republic, has been in failing health since
his return to his home in Indiana, and his
friends are exceedingly anxious about him.
The Empress of Austria has a knowl-
edge of modern languages that would do
credit to college professor. Her latest
acquisition in the linguistic line is modern
Greek, which she has learned by spending
few months every year at Corfu.