The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-07
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Lord Teunyson c0n,emplates a sea voyage
for the benefit of his health.
General Benjamin F. Butler is making an
extended tour of the Northwest in his own
parlor-car.
And now Frank Slavin is to go on the
stage, regardless of the fact that the stage
can easily spar him.
Blance Willis Howard, now the wife of
DIR. Teufel of Stuttgart, is said to have a
different lingering for every day in the
year.
George NJ. Pullman, of Pullman palace
car fame, will build Sl,000.000 hotel in
Chicago. and have it completed in time for
the Worlds Fair.
Miss Elinor Buckingham, senior of the
Harvard Annex, has been appointed an in-
structor in the Royal Normal College for the
Blind at London.
1t is feared in Washington that General
Belknap's estate will prove to amount to
but very little. He was not thrifty, and he
was very generous.
Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot is the name
given Ia London announcements OF the late
dramatist's death. says Oak ey Hall, and this
is probably the authoritative form Of the
name.
Sir John Puleston's younger daughter,
Alice, who was born in the United States
white her father was a partner with Jay
Cooke, will soon marry Francis Garford
Brent0n.
Ex-senator Jones of Iowa is still hale and
hearty at the age of eighty-slX. He is one OF
the few survivors of the days when Benton,
Calhoun, CaSS and Daniel Webster were in
the Senate.
Robert Burns Wilson, the artist and poet
of Kentucky, Is a native OF Virginia, but the
greater portion OF his life has been spent III
the bluegrass region. He is go0d-looking
bachelor, popular in society
Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller will cele-
hrate their silver wedding some time in JAN
uary, at their Washington home On that
day the wedding of their daughter, Miss
Mildred Fuller, to Hugo Wallace will take
place.
Some one has made the remarkable discov.
cry that John l.. Sullivan, Nat Goodwin and
Henry L. DiXey were members of the same
class in the Boston High School in 1874.
The teacher of the class is not yet known to
fame, but he ought TO be.
Among these who danced at the ball given
at Brussels on the eve of the battle of Water
loo was the present GeorgiaDa, Dowager
Baroness de ROs, of London, who is % years
old She was a daughter OF the Duke OF
Richmond, who gave tbe ball
The first praise given Judge Roger A.
Pryor by the paper u the younger Bennett
reads queerly enough as a sequence of the
scoring given by Congressman Roger A.
Pryor to the elder Bennett and his accom-
plished vile many years ago on the floor OF
1.-THE House OF Representatives.
The Princess Victoria OF Prussia is patriot
ically encouraging national tastes and indus
tries by having all her trousseaux made in
Germany. with the exception of four oriental
dresses. These were ordered for the Princess
by the Empress Frederick while in Athens,
from the Greek School for Art-weaying.
Prince Vladimir Dolsorouki, now so years
old, and for the last twenty-five years Gov
ernor of Moscow, is descended from line of
n he 70
centuries. he distinguished himself at the
assault of Warsaw, in the Polish war, the
Hungarian campaign and i'll the Crmea.
A German news aper points OUT one strik-
ing difference between the Bismarck and
Capriyl regimes. Under Bismarck's rule
hardly day passed without some persoa or
newspaper being fined for speaking disre-
spectluily of the Chancellor, whereas, dur
ing The first six months OF Capriyi's rule not
a single complaint of this sort has been
brought up.
The long-talked-of visit of Sarah Bern
hardt to the Antp0des is gradually getting
less nebulouS. She has at last fixed q date
long way off, no doubt, still it is so far salts
factory 10 the Australians. She has en-
tered into solemn covenant with Messrs.
Williamson and Garner to open in Mel
bourne ON June !. 1892, and play ten weeks
engagement in that metropolis and Sydney.
Mrs. Fawcett. the widow of the blind
r,,,,. i"i VI Ia lduu anu uotDet
Of Miss Philiippa Fawcett, who ranked
above the senior wrangler at Oxford, is her
self one OF The best speakers in Great Brit
ain. She made her Iirst appearance on
public platform in 1869. In addition to her
intellectual attalnments, Mrs. Fawcett is
noted as horsewonan and mountain
climber.
The late Empress Augusta forms a nota-
BILE exception to the general run of mortals,
whose fate is to have the good they have
done inferred with their bones. On Septem-
Der Goth, the anniversary of her birthday,
list was published of all the charitable in
stitutions to which the Empress bequeathed
money. Tney are twenty-nne in number.
and include Protestant, Roman Catholic,
Jewish and undenominational institutions
for all sorts and conditions of men and
women.