Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-19
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
King Louis, of Portugal, gave the copy
rights of his literary works to charitable
institutions.
NJ. de Coghan, the Vienna correspondent
of several Russian papers, has been ex-
PEELED from Austria.
The portrait of the baby King of Spain
now appears upon the coin and postage
stamps of that nation.
Historian Bancroft is remarkably well
this winter. He ascribes his good health
to the warm weather.
DIR. Amelia B. Edwards and the Hon.
Andrew D. White will be among this win
ter's lecturers at the University of Penn
sylvania.
Prof. Thorold Rogers was recently
brought into the Police Court at Oxford
and fined shilling for not keeping his
dog muzzled.
Miss Marie A. Brown, of Chicago, the
champion of Lief Erikson, has Just been
married, and is now to be known as Mrs.
John B. Shipley.
Miss Gertrude Miller, The little daugh-
ter of the Acknowledgement is quoted as
expires sing dislike for Washington, because
"the people go out in the streets with their
babies"
The engagement of George Vanderbilt
to Miss Mary Johnstone, daughter of Col.
William Johnstone of Annandale, South
Island, Georgetown county, S. c., is an-
nounced.
Francis John Henry Jenkinson, NJ. A.,
Fellow of Trinity College, has been elected
without opposition to the Office of Libra
rian of Cambridge University, England,
vacant by the resignation of Professor
Robert Smith.
DIR. Frederick Stewart, Colonial Secre-
tary of Hongkong, very able and widely
known official, died recently. He went out
to China from England thirty years ago as
Inspector of Schools and head master of the
Central School.
The late John F. Smith, the great Phila-
delphia typefounder, gave to various chari
ties more than 100000 year during the
closing years of his long and useful life.
Everything l have to give away" he
said, al shall give away before die"
The death Is announced in Sydney of the
Rev. Julian Tension Woods, whose labors
as Roman Catholic missionary and writ
ing on scientific subjects have made him
widely known. He was an ardent partici-
pant in the Oxford Tractarian movement.
Mrs. Bland, the poet and novelist, best
known as "E. NeSbit" is described as a
very pretty woman with soft brown eyes,
and delicacy of look, dress and carriage
which belongs to the old esthetic days,
which, in her costumes at least, Mrs. Bland
revives.
Sidney Dickinson has been lecturing on
picturesque New Zealand" at Melbourne,
under the auspices of the Governor, the
Mayor, the Premier, the Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly, the Chancellor of
the University of Melbourne, the United
States Consul General and other distil-
guished residents.
Miss Proctor, the daughter of the Sec
retary of War, is distinctly New
England girl, both in appearance and
character, says the Washington Post. She
is tall and well formed, with a clear,
healthy complexion, and an open, intel
lectual face, the especial feature of which
is a high, noble forehead
Mr.. Childers, the English politician, is
setting out for India for the winter. When
he was bidding Mr.. Gladstone good-by he
hoped that nothing important would hap
pen before he returned. "There is one
thing which you may be sure will not hap
pen," said Mr.. Gladstone, "the Septennial
Act will not be repealed"
Nine. Erard, widow of the famous piano
and harp manufacturer, died recently at
La Muette, France, at the age of seventy
six. Her husband died in 1855, without
issue, and Nine. Erard adopted one of his
nieces, now wife of the Comte de Franque-
vile. Nine Erard devoted her time and a
great part of her fortune to assisting musi-
clans and actors at their start in life or when
in distress.
Ben Butler has decided to write his me-
moirs, and has selected his publisher. He
says he wants the truth to appear in an
swer "to the false and malicious state
ments made concerning nearly everything
| have done, engendered by the venomous
hatred of portions of each political party,
because | disagreed with both, and in the
early days of the war of the rebellion
largely written and published both in this
country and Europe, and paraded to fire
the Southern heart as sort of posterior
justification of rebellion and treason" As
to his material he says: 81 do not think |
shall fail there. With an accidental ex-
ception, believe 1 have in my possession
copy Of every important letter written
H., ,,,I %, SR1 y
A correspondent of the Pail Mall Gazette
writes: at is quite true, though not gen.
orally known, that Mr.. Parnell was a
member of Magdalene College, Cambridge,
over twenty years ago. He was only up
for term or two, and consequently left
without taking degree. The reason for
his leaving before the end of his time was
this: He had committed some trihing
breach of discipline towards the end of a
term which involved a walk 10 Newmarket
and back. For this offense he received on
the following day the customary official
'wigging.' But the embryonic Nationalist
leader took the 'wigging' so much to heart
| that he decided not to return. The term
was just at an end, so he removed his
name from the books of the college, and
thus ceased to belong to the University"
Kentucky's Fertile Soil.
'The soil in Kentucky" said the Col