Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-27
PEOPLE TALKED OF.

James Russell Lowell is said to be in a
fair way to regain his health.
General E. Kirby Smith claims TO be the
oldest living white man born in Florida.
The Queen of England is close student
of African geography and of African affairs
in general.
1t is now announced that Prince Murat
is engaged to a middle-aged lady with a
fortune of S5,000,000.
Emperor William of Germany has issued
new orders and rules to the navy, forming
volume of forty pages.
1t is reported that Sir Edward Arnold
has mastered the japanese language and is
able to converse fiuently in it.
A Hungarian paper announces thedeath
of veteran of Waterloo on the 18th ult..
aged los, in his native village, Hatszeg,
in Pennsylvania.
Archbishop Farrar recently attended
the Passion Pay at Ober-Ammergau and
lodged in the house of the actor who
played the part of Jesus.
Colonel w. G. Hill, of Philadelphia,
says alum water is an unfailing specific for
hydrophobia. He says that he has also
used it with success in cases of rattlesnake
bites.
One Of the leading stump orators of
Washington is Thomas H. Tongue. He is
said to be eloquent, humorous and in the
last election wagged his tongue all over
the State.
Professor Perkins of the Iowa State Uni
yersity has published a poem entitled
"Eleusis." Those who are competent to
judge say that it will make place for itself
in literature.
An admirer of the Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon
recently left him considerable sum of
money in his will. Mr.. Spurgeon dIstrib-
uted the entire sum among the testators
poor relations.
The Macon Telegraph sets itself up as a
judge of oratory and says Mr.. Chauncey
NJ. Depew is sort of professional babbler,
who is ready to speak on any occasion and
on any subject"
Mrs John R. Ennis, of Martinsyille.
Md, has given birth to triplets. By a
singular coincidence she was herself twin,
and her mother and grandmother are each
one of a set of twins.
The Free Church of Scotland, which re-
Gently took steps to prosecute Professor
Bruce for heresy, recently withdrew from
its position by a vote at the General As
sembly session in London.
The Hon. William Sprague, ex-United
States Senator, Ex-Governor of Rhode
Island, ex-manufacturer and ex-husband
of Kate Chase Sprague, is now Chief of
Police at Narragansett Pier.
The first woman lawyer appointed in
Connecticut, Miss Mary Hall, is leader
in her profession. She is pleasant wo-
man, about 40 years of age, and thor
oughly well posted in all that pertains to
the law for the people.
The Egyptian Sketches" published by
Jeremiah Lynch in London recently. are
said TO have created furore among for
eign Psychologists, and the book has taken
its place as classic and standard work on
the land of the Pharaohs
Early in January next O'Donoyan Ros.
sa's term of twenty years banishment from
his native land will be ended. It is his
intention at that time to return to Ireland
to visit his old friends and neighbors in
the county of Cork.
David j. Brewer, of Kansas, who was
recently appointed Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States.
is 52 years old, is the fifty-second man ele-
waited to that dignity, and was confirmed
by vote of fiftytwo Senators.
R. w. Wren, now General Passenger
Agent of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad, began life as telegraph
operator. He was the man who received
the message sent from General Lee to JEFF
ferson Davis announcing that Richmond
must be evacuated
The Princess of Wales causes her three
daughters to devote one hour of each day
to housekeeping. They don their white
gowns, attach bundle of keys to their
girdle and work. They not only have
learned to bake bread, but to make butter
and to look after the pantry. A multi
tude of fashionable ladies wonld do well
to initiate the example of the Princess of
Wales.
Mrs. Martha Gray, of Virginia, has been
found by the census man. Mrs. GRAY is
now living with her third husband, and
her record at rearing children is thus
scheduled: Six tripIets, eighteen: six
twins, twelve; seven singles, seven; total.
thirty-seven children When the census
enumerator facetiously remarked: "Tally
one for Mrs. Gray" that good lady ex-
claimed: You tally thirty. seven and do
not forget it!
The adopted son Of ex-senator Thomas
w. Palmer, who quits his Spanish post for
good, is little blonde 3-year-old named
Murillo CASTELAR, Palmer Senator Palm
er's home interests make enough business
for one man. He is producing 100000
barrels of salt annually in the Saginaw es-
tablishments. He is manufacturing 80
100000 feet of lumber every year, and has,
in addition, the care of his l,000-acre farm
stocked with several hundred head of inn
ported Percheron horses, while his lead
mines and land interests also take up
great deal of his time.