Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-26


a rival in the civilized world
Breathing freedoms air, she scorns the
trammels of corrupt society and lives as
mans equal and companion. In fact, the
American "is woman" Take her all In
all, YOU shall not look upon her like again.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
Mr.. Bradlaugh, besides being good
angler, plays the game of chess to perfec-
tion.
The son of Aristotle Valaoritis, one of
the greatest poets Of modern Greece" is
preparing new edition of his fathers
works.
Mrs. Stanley has refused to live in
Africa, and her husband has declined the
Governorship of Congo, offered him by the
King of Belgium.
Thomas Winans, the millionaire. who
had lived luxuriously, said on his death
bed he would give million dollars to be
able to eat piece of bread and butter.
The Nizam of Hyderabad is liberal
patron. He not very long since gave
dentist 5000 Government rupees (about
$4,000 for extracting two of his teeth.
William H. English of Indiana, ex-Gov-
ernor aud ex-candidate for Vice-President,
is writing history of Hoosierdom, for
which he is now prowling among old rec
ords in Washington.
Mrs. Custer, the widow of the Indian
fighter, is black-haired woman of medi-
um hight and gracious presence. Her COM
plexion is rosy, and she is the picture of
health and youthfulness.
Mr.. Frank Della Tore of Baltimore
has invented an instrument which he calls
the eophone, by which he claims that all
sounds can be heard and located on the
darkest night and in the thickest weather.
Miehigan's newest millionaire, James
NJ. Ashley, started out twelve years ago
without a dollar, and in. that time has
built and equipped 400 miles of railroad,
which he now controls, and is worth 81
100000.
Louis Kossuth is still engaged at his
home in Turin, Italy, in writing his MEM
oirs, the completion Of which is made
slow work by his great age-he is now SS
years old-and his habit of running into
diffusive details.
Miss Virginia Schley, the daughter of
the noted commander Of the United States
cruiser Baltimore, is to be married on her
fathers vessel in the Mediterranean next
February to the young nephew of the Earl
of Wharncliff.
The latest "boy orator. to come forward
is Irving Jay Steeninger, the child phe
nomenon of Rochester, Ind. He is not
quite six years old, but he can deliver
fifty-minute address with astonishing elo-
quence and self-possession.
Professor John r. Hanlon, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Pennington Seminary, has in.
vented a new theodolite and transit instru-
ment, of which the telescope can be ac-
curately raised or lowered to the proper
hight after it has been leveled.
Mrs. Ellen Brown, Of Saco, Me-, al
though not yet IS years of age, has seen
seven generations of her family. The sew
enth is represented by three-months' old
child, to whose grandfather and grand
mother Mrs. Brown is a great-aunt.
The Pope has announced his intention
of comforting the seat in the Sacred Col
lege rendered vacant by the death of Car
dinal Newman upon Mousignor Edmund
Stonor. This gentleman is the son Of the
late Lord Camoys, and uncle of the present
peer.
Professor Tyndall spent his seventieth
birthday, which occurred few weeks ago,
in his beloved Switzerland, high up among
the glaciers. Even at 20 his gaunt and
wiry frame is equal to the minor fatigues
of Alpine climbing, He is in excellent
health.
Krupp has Just given to the German
Emperor and the Crown Prince cannon
each. The Emperor's present is elab-
orately decorated with military designs,
and is considered by Krupp TO be the
finest bit of workmanship ever turned out
from his foundry.
Ex-senator George w. Jones, of Iowa,
is a we'll preserved and jaunty man of
nearly 90 years. His head is covered with
punches of wayy, white curls, and his Van
| Dyke beard and mustaches are white and
curly But his figure is still light, sinewy
and graceful. He lives in Dubuque, la.
Miss Ellen Terry la said to have
achieved her first stage distinction by
screaming" In a play bearing the out
landish title of "Alter Cecil" she had to
take snake around her neck and scream,
and so realistic was her simulated horror
at the situation that the scream electrified
the house.
Professor Moller of Carlsruhe has made
some interesting observations on clouds.
The highest clouds, cirrus and GIRO
stratus. rise on an average to hight of
nearly 10000 feet. The middle clouds
| keep at from about 10000 to $4,000 feet in
height, while the lower clouds reach to
between g, 600 and 1000 feet.
Mrs. NJ. Edith Howcott of New Orleans
probably owns more real estate than any
other Southern woman. She has in her
own right over $4,000 acres of selected
timber lands in Louisiana and Mississippi,
and is still buying. She has Just COM
pleted purchase of $500 acres of hard
wood and cypress timber land in Louisiana
and 1000 acres of pine in Texas.
Archduchess Valerie, the recently mar
ried daughter of the Emperor and Empress
of Austria, is staying with her husband
at the Hotel Victoria, at lnterlaken.
Switzerland. Though their rank Is known
among the guests, they dine at the table
dhote and spend their evenings in the
reading-room. The Archduchess gains
many admirers by her gentleness and SIM
| plicity- The young people take long walks
on the mountains every day.
Professor ]. H. Hewitt, 'the father Of
the American ballad" who died in Balti-
more the other day, was New York boy.
Among his compositions that attained the
greatest popularity were "The Song of the
Wind" "The Minstrels Return From the
War;" 'Rock Ne 10 Sleep, Mother" sour
Native Land, Take Ne Home to the
Sweet, Sunny South" and "The American
Boy" Mr.. Hewitt saw Fulton's first
steamboat on the Hudson river, was pres
ent when the first dispatch was sent over
Morse's telegraph line between Baltimore
and Washington, and was passenger on
the first train of locomotive cars that left
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