Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-16
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


engagements in Kansas on her way home
from California.
Prince Bismarck has a superstitious con-
Germ for the year $780, He fears that he
may not live beyond it.
Miss Mia Shakespeare, daughter Of
Mayor Shakespeare, was queen of New Or
leans carnival this year.
NJ. De Brazza, the African explorer,
will marry Nine. Seymour when he re-
turns from his present expedition.
A granddaughter of Charles Dickens the
elder made her debut as novelist with a
short Christmas story in December last.
John Watts Kearney, son of the famous
General 'Phil" Kearney, has resigned as
Inspector General of the National Guard
of New Jersey on the staff of Governor
Green.
Professor Perrin, of Adelbert College, is
travelling in Greece and Italy. He is one
of the managers of the American school at
Athens, and will spend some time there
studying Greek archaeology.
Mrs. Abba Gould Woolson is an earnest
champion of Isabella of CASTLE, and indig-
nantly rejects the current belief that the
reputed patron of Columbus was really a
particularly selfish and bigoted tyrant.
The Rev. Kingsley Twining, editor of
the New York Independent, is described as
large-framed, ruddy, blue-eyed and white
haired, with genial smile, good diges-
ton and turn for humorous anecdote.
The oldest living graduate of the Medi-
cal College of the University of Pennsyl-
vania is DR.. Isaac q. Coffman of Phecix-
vile, who was 50 years old New Years
Day. He graduated in 1929, and has been
in active practice ever since.
The Emperor William is in future to
appear at great reviews and at State func-
tions, when he is ON horseback, on a
magnificent Arab which has been presented
to him by the Sultan, and which is entirely
black, without single speck.
"King George of Greece, says the Lon
don Truth, "has for the present abandoned
his intention of Indicating in favor of the
Duke of Sparta early next year, in defer
ence to the wishes of the Emperor of
Russia, who is very strongly opposed to the
project"
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota has
the only herd of buffalos now in existence.
There are fifteen animals in the herd, and
they are corraled on farm about four
miles from Yankton, at the end of rail-
road built by him and used by the public
for excursions.
The Empress Of Germany has special
bodyguard of twenty-four of the tallest
men in the army, with five Sergeants and
commanding officer to match. They
wear the quaint uniform of the Great
Frederick's bodyguard-red coats, white
breeches and three-cornered hats.
A leading magazine has offered Ward
McAllister handsome sum for his auto
biography. The people who think that
newspaper methods are dying out should
remember this, as a prominent illustration
of how the newspaper methed takes with
the more pretentious literary productions.
Senator Turpie of Indiana is said to be
a perfect master of no less than seven Ian
guages besides the English. He reads
Latin, Greek and Hebrew almost as fluent
ly as he does English, and can speak
French, Spanish, German and Italian. He
has also pursued studies in Indian, Celtic
and other tongues.
The baby King Alphonso, of Spain, is
now godfather The other day, his EN-
bassador at st. Petersburg solemly accepted
in the name of his Majesty the duty of
seeing that the son of the Comte and Com
Jesse de Morella renounces the pomps and
vanities of this wicked world. As the
King is only three years older than his
god-child, he may find the task of forcing
the latter into the paths of virtue uncom-
monty difficult.
"No," said Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster,
the accomplished editor of the Basar, the
other day, 81 am not member of the
Woman's Press Club; this, too, in the face
of the frequently printed assertion that I
! am. Further, l never expect to be. The
truth is l do not take kindly to large
clubs, nor could l conscientiously belong
to an association of any sort which con-
vened on Sunday, holding, as 1 do, the
most conservative opinion upon Sabbath
keeping"
The last of the original contributors to
Punch, which was started forty-nine years
ago, died recently in the person of Harry
| Plunkett Grattan Grattan who was in his
eighty-second year. He never made much
of mark, and he has been forgotten many
years. His wife was at one time some
what dashing actress and singer, and in
| the revival of "Masks and Faces" under
| Bancroft's management, his two grandchil-
dren made quite a success in their per-
Torrance of the little Triplets.
During his busy lecturing season George
KEENAN, fights shy of social engagements
of all kinds. "My health" he writes to a
friend, lis good deal shaken. l have
| already spoken ffty-fve nights this season.
| have $50 more engagements to fill and
am not at all sure that | shall be able to
stand the strain. The only way in which
| have been able to keep up thus far is by
declining all invitations and taking as
much rest as possible-sleepIng some
mornings until noon, taking supper after
my lectures, and living generally life
that from the point of view of the orderly
housekeeper is extremely irregular and
cratic"
A Lusignan descendant of the Kings of
Jerusalem died miserably lately in hos
pital in Milan. A Marquis, descendant
from the Doges, is selling matches in the
streets of Venice; in the same city por-
ter at one of the most splendid palaces
keeps the door of the house where he
ought to be master. AT Naples, the Due
de Lerma, grandee of Spain, is lawyers
clerk. At Palermo the Due de Santa
Croce goes about the streets picking up
cigar ends and anything else to be found.
The Princess Pignatelli is singer in a
cafe chantant in Berlin. At Buenos Ayres
there is lovely flower girl about 20, who,
when asked where she came from, replied
that she was Lombard, but that her par
ents were Romans of the name of Pecci.
The girl, whose name was Leonilda Pecci,
when asked if she was a relative of His
Holiness, said she did not know, but in her
family it was believed they were nearly
akin.
His Winning Way.
Bouthleigh-"You say, Major ORourke,
that your regiment never lost even a Skin
mish. Won't you please tell us how you
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