Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-24
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED OF.

Concord, N. H., aged 81 years.
John Howells, son of the novelist, has
chosen architecture as his profession.
Young Howells is a Harvard student.
Princess Beatrice, who has made study
of lace, is writing book on the subject,
and she will furnish the illustrations.
The 5000 acres of land that embrace
Tuxedo were bought many years ago fy
Pierre Lorillard for cordwood and rail
road ties.
The ex-Khedive Ismael is in very bad
health, and has been advised to proceed
forthwith to Carlsbad for course of the
waters there.
Count Casa de la Miranda, the husband
of Christine Nilsson, has been appointed
an Under Secretary Of State in the new
Spanish Ministry.
Emperor William of Germany recently
Count Seneschal Won Liebenau
for refusing to admit to his presence a
deputation of workingmen.
Mrs. Frances Hart Day, daughter of
Senator Day of Michigan, lives in Kansas
City, and is an enthusiast on the subject of
women's federation of clubs.
The new English literary comet, Rud-
yard Kipling, is shore, square-built man,
who has a pale skin, thin, brown hair
near-sighted eyes. He wears spectacles.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the
American novelist, was recently married
to DIR. Teufel, of Stuttgart, one of the
most eminent practitioners in Germany.
One of Horace Greeley's nephews is a
barber in little town in Warren county,
Pennsylvania. In personal appearance
he is not unlike his distinguished uncle.
Senator Aldrich is one Of the few SEN
ators who enjoy the confidence of Presi-
dent Harrison. He is favorite guest at
luncheon and dinner at the White House.
In accordance with curious Austrian
custom, one of Archduchess Valerie's we'd
ding gifts was a collection of articles of
worn by her in her days of baby
hood.
Colonel Thomas Russell Marshall, who
has Just been elected Commandant of the
Virginia Military Institute, is thirty
eight years old and graduate of that in
stitute.
Henry Harrison Fay, the newly ap-
brother of Professor w. w. Fay, of the
United States Naval Academy at An
napolis.
Johann Orth, the Austrian Archduke
who resigned his rank to become sea
persists in leading the simplest
democratic life, bespite all temptations to
do otherwise.
Mrs. Davis, wife of the Minnesota SEN
ator, is one of those who go to extremes
in the fad for black. All her undergar-
ments, as we'll as the sheets and draperies
of her bed, are black.
The Rev. Adm Ballap, clergyman
who recently died in Hopedale, Mass, per-
formed 1,100 marriage ceremonies and
$500 funeral services during a
of thirty years.
Mr.. Edward Bellamy has two pretty
little children, and when not occupied with
them writes autographs for friends vino
poster and post album leaves to the author
of Looking Backward"
The biographical writer, James Parton,
has made Newburyport, Mass, his perma-
nent home. He spends five or six hours
each day in writing and study, and is re-
ported in vigorous health.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri is described
as "tall, thin, sharp-faced, shrill-voiced
man, noted as the most excitable member
in the Senate, and a good type of the old
fashioned controversialist."
A well-to-do farmer named Richard
Carmichael, of Queen Anne county, Md,
has kept diary for thirty years, and it
shows that it has invariably rained on the
26th of July during that time.
The ex-Empress of France, Eugene, is
still digniied and most graceful woman.
The outline of her shoulders and poise of
her head are still beautiful. Her eyebrows
are dark, but her hair is snowy white.
The King of Italy wants to be Emperor,
too, and thinks Of making himself "Empe-
ror of Erythrea and Eastern Africa" on
the strength of his protectorate of Abys-
sinia and some colonies on the Red Sea.
Ex-President Cleveland has purchased
the large Tudor estate at Tudor Haven,
on Buzzard's Bay. The sum has been
agreed upon, forfeit has been paid, and
the necessary papers are being made out.
Prince Georges full name is George
Frederick Ernest Albert. He is the Sec
ond son of the Prince and Princess OF
Wales, and is Just twenty-five years old.
He resembles his father in looks and man
ners.
The Prince of Wales, Albert Edward,
is going to Hungary toward the end OF
September to visit Count Festetics and
Count Karolyi, and there will be series
of hunting parties on their respective
estates.
The late Clerk of the County Court OF
Tucker county, West Virginia, who died
a few days ago, was born without legs, over
fifty years ago. Yet he was an excellent
cavalry soldier in the Confederate army
during the war.
Lord Brassey is engaged to marry the
Hon. Sybil Capel, young woman both ac-
complished and beautiful, and the young
est daughter of the late Viscount Maiden
Lord Brassey is fifty three. His first wife
died three years ago.
Captain Jack Crawford, the "poet scout
is now in the employ of the Government
as special agent to suppress illicit whisky
selling among the Indians. He still wears
his golden locks flying from under light
felt hat of enormous dimensions.
A whistling buoy has dissipated the
dream Of Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelp:
Ward of building an ideal house at East
ern Point, Gloucester, Mass. The sight
she and her husband had chosen was that
on which "Gates Ajar' was written, and il
was a favorite resort of them both till the
permanent location of the shriekiDg buoy
there drove them away.
Ex-President Magill of Swarthorne Col
lege and ex-President Andrew d. White
OF Cornell University, who is to wed DIR
Magills daughter, Helen, in the fall, were
classmates at Yale forty years ago.. Mis-
Magill is one of the most scholarly o
American women, holding two degrees
from Swarthorne College, one from
Boston University, and one from Newn-
ham College, England.
A complete list Of the Sultan's wive.
shows that he has FIVE frst-class wives
paiides; twenty-four second-clsas or morga
natic wives, and some two hundred anc
fifty third class partners, variously de
scribed as 'favorites" and Slaves" Th,
care and attendance of the female estab
ment require the services of 5000 persons
who are the only people in Turkey who re
ceive their full pay with regularity.
The Girl Reporter.
Here is the way that girl reporter de-