Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-19
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.

The Duke of Fife is accused of being s
poetical plagiarist.
| DR.. Philpot, Lord Bishop of Worcester
will probably resign. He is S3.
Congressman Springer's wife writes verse:
which are highly praised by those who
/ have read them.
Rider Haggard, the author, will spend
the winter in Mexico, the guest of an En-
glish friend at the capital.
The Car of Russia, Alexander Ill, is SC
strong in the fingers that he can tear q
pack of carGeto pieces, ffty-two cards at a
time.
Count Tolstoi is still weak and enact
ated, so that he can hardly walk about the
fields, but he is nevertheless engaged on a
new novel.
Mrs. Westinghouse, the wife of the air
brake millionaire of Pittsburg, is a blonde
and dresses elegantly. Her diamonds are
worth $4,000.
Clarence Stephens, nephew of the Con.
federate Vice-President, is conductor on
sleeping car in Georgia, and they say
he is good one.
Baron Ferdinand de Rotbschild's home
Waddeson Manor, where Queen Victoria
visited recently, is said to be a veritable
Alladdin's palace.
Another curious coincidence in the po-
litical life of Senator Carlisle is that his
first vote in Congress was on question
with relation to the tariff.
The Rev. Isaac c. Ketter, Phi. D., Presi
dent of the Grove City College in Michi-
gan, has been elected President of Macal-
ester College in Minnesota.
Senator and ex-Secretary of the Navy
William Eaton Chandler is reported by
some of his Concord, n. H., neighbors to
have become a chronic invalid.
Miss Virginia Knox, the Pittsburg girl
whose matrimonial venture with bogus
Italian Count resulted so disastrously, is
about to make her debut on the stage.
DIR. Schweninger, the famous physician Of
Bismarck, has gone on an extended tour Of
Europe, with the object of increasing his
weight. He has grown as thin as rail.
Empress Frederick of Germany has re-
ceived valuable jeweled locket bearing
the Montijo arms and containing lock of
hair, from ex-Empress Eugene of France.
Captain George Mackenzie the chess
player, is dying from consumption in
Manchester, England, where he recently
took part in an international chess tourna-
ment.
The last descendant of the great Italian
family of Farnese Prince Farnese Arif-
bay, has Just died at Constantinople, aged
sixty-two years. The family is now ex-
tinct.
Lord Cowper, ex-Lord Lieutenant Of
Ireland, is i'll and is not likely to recover
He was the author of the famous express
sion about driving discomfort beneath the
surface"
Sara Jeanette Duncan is young Ca
madam authoress who has been gaining a
name for herself by book of travels. She
is quite a pretty woman, of slight figure
with brown hair and light-blue eyes.
"Pierre Lotti,n the author of so many
delightful books of travel, lives at Roche
fort, in France, near where a Roman En-
peror once built himself villa that he
might have the Rochefort oysters fresh
from the water.
Mr.. Gladstone is devoting his spare time
at Hawarden to the arrangement of memo
randa, manuscripts and letters, represent
ing nearly ton in weight t, so that it may
be available for the preparation of his own
recollections, or for his biography, which
some day will have to be written.
A strange story mas just been published
in Germany, on the strength of letter
from an eyewitness, now dead, to the
effect that General Abel Douay, who fell
at the battle of Worth, was really shot by
an officer in a Turco regiment, who was
furious at Douay's order of retreat.
General E. Kirby Smith is one of the
three surviving Confederate Generals
the other two being Generals Beauregard
and Johnston. He is at present in New
Orleans, where his erect and soldierly
figure, topped, as it were, with crown OF
strong white hair, attracts general atten-
ton.
DR.. Charles B. Strong has been appoint
ed decent in psychology at Clark Univer-
sity. He graduated at Rochester Univer-
sity in 1884 and at Harvard in 1885, spent
two years in the Rochester Theological
Seminary and one at the Berlin Univer-
sity, and was instructor in philosophy at
Cornell.
Old Commodore Vanderbilt used to
play with the mind-reader, Bishop. That
| is, it was favorite trick of the Commo-
dore to place hand on the boys head and
demand the price of some railway stock.
As often as not young Bishop gave cor
rect answer, and the old tinancier was
deeply puzzled by the feat.
The venerable Henry W. Paine. of Cam
bridge, Mass, who has practiced law ever
since 1884, still visits his business Office
daily. 1t was he, the Boston Herald says,
who originated the, famous remark, at
was law until your Honor spoke" the
same having been addressed to the Chief
Justice of Massachusetts,, who had inter-
rupted his argument by saying "Mr. Paine,
you know that is not law"
Bismarck is one of the largest landown-
ers in Prussia, and he carries On success
fully at his various estates the business of
tle-breedipg. geese-breeding, distilling
spirits, brewing and the manufacture of
Yeast. His cattle and geese industries
yield him an annual profit of $500 to
81. 500, and the annual income from his
Yeast business, the most important item in
the Chandeliers income, is about S94,
900. His jewels, pictures and plate rep
resent value of 100000, and his total
income is not fer from $4,000 a year,