Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Julia Ward Howe was II years old last
week, but is still young.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen will spend the
coming autumn in Canada.
Bishop Paret, of Baltimore, has gone
a-fishiDg on the st. Lawrence river.
Father Ignatius, the celebrated English
Benedictine, will visit America.
Henry Willard and wife are announced
to sail for Europe July I'd, to be absent a
year or more.
The cratic weather prophet, Professor
Virgins, now threatens Italy with a ire
mendous earthquake.
Donald G. Mitchell is busy with literary
work at Edgewood, which has been his
home for thirty-six years.
The famous writer of English ballads,
Hope Temple, smokes eighteen cigarettes
day. Shame for shamel
Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott SAYS he consid-
ers Rev. DIR. Phillips Brooks by far the
foremost preacher in America.
George F. Dudley, son of Colonel w. W.
Dudley, of Indiana, is studying for the min
istry, under Bishop Paret, of Maryland.
Chris Magee, a leading politician of
Pittsburg, has given $4,000 toward the
erection of newsboys' home in that city.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, the author of
" Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" is
giving readings of her works on the Pa
cifc Coast
Mrs. Oscar Wilde is dress reformer and
believes in..he divided skirt. What Oscar
now believes in, in the matter of dress, no.
body seems to care.
The new Chinese Minister at Washing
ton, Kwo Yin, was the President of col
lege in China. He is stout man, and
about 80 years Of age.
Herr Victor Meyer, German scientist,
recently gave it as his opinion that chem
istry will yet teach us how to make use of
fiber of wood as food.
DR.. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, who is 60
years of age, will soon wed Miss Letitia
Jordan, daughter of General Jordan, of the
United States mint at Philadelphia.
Up to present reports Miss Robertson,
of Aurora, ILL.,, is the champion census
enumerator. She has made an average of
262 names day, netting IS per diem.
A number of British and American adj
mirers of NJ. Pasteur, including the Prince
and Princess of Wales, have presented him
an album containing their autographs.
Judge Cooley, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, is still in il, health,
and will not be able to participate in the
work of the Commission for some time.
Louis Ralston, Cherokee Indian, was
recently granted a citizenship. This Is the
first one granted an Indian, and it is ex-
pected many more will follow his example.
Prince Bismarck is well versed in Eng
lish literature, and on one occasion, re-
Gently, quoted twenty or thirty lines of
Lalla Rookh" ON the spur of the mo-
ment.
The novelist, Mrs. Amelie Barr, lives
hermit sort Of a life on the summit of the
Storm King Mountain, on the Hudson.
All her manuscript is prepared with
typewriter.
A young woman named Stewart was en-
gagged few years ago as waitress in
Cincinnati restaurant. To-day she and her
sister are proprietors of one and clear
$4,000 year.
The surgical operation performed some
time ago upon the throat of Campanini,
success, and the voice, believed to be
will be heard again.
Prince Bismarck, since the departure of
his son Herbert, takes long horseback rides
every day in the Sachsenwald, which is
now in full bloom. These rides are having
an excellent effect on his health.
Samuel NJ. Inman, the Georgia railroad
man and capitalist, has not yet decided
whether he will accept the appointment as
a Commissioner at large OF the Worlds
Fair. His wife is in feeble health.
A solid gold crown, weighing four and
half pounds, has just been completed in
Milan for King Menelek of Abyssinia. 1t
resembles somewhat in form the tiara of
the Pope. 1t is adorned with $50 precious
stones, and is valued at $1,000.
Mrs. Martha Lumpkin, of Epson county,
Ga, is the head of family of 400 chill
dren, grandchildren and great-grandchil-
dren. She is 9S years of age, yet she has,
on an average, knitted sixty-two pairs of
socks during the past five years.
Miss Bracket, the writer and teacher.
has had right-hand side saddle made, aud
rides on either side OF her horse indifier-
entity. She was moved to this by the con-
viction that riding constantly on one side
was injurious to both horse and rider
The King Of Sweden recently received a
letter from young farmer who had been
drafted for military service, begging his
Majesty to release him and let him join
his relatives IN America, who had Just
sent him passenger ticket. The King
did SO.