The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-14
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Senator ingalls, has literary aspirations.
Emperor William was full private at Z.
The King of Spain eats with his fingers.
Russell Harrison is going out of Montana
journalism.
The Marquis of Lorne has just completed
q new novel.
Roscoe CoGkling believed in destiny as
Napoleon did.
Herbert S! eacer has just passed his seven
tieth birthday.
Sarah BeInhardt is coming with herKnew
play, CLEOPATRA"
Theodore Tit0n's wife lives with mar
ried daughter in Chicago.
Mrs. Powers Of Kingston. n. Y, is worth
S3,000,000 and is 100 years old.
The Sultan of Turkey takes forty minutes
to say his prayers in the morning.
The widow of General Sheridan is visiting
the family of Senator Hale, in Ellsworth,
Me.
Miss Jennie Langford of Duluth is the
only licensed woman pilot on the Northern
axes.
Henrik Ibsen. who continues his quiet aud
reticent life az Munich, has recently begun
to write new drama.
DR.. Belle Smith, the resident physician at
the women's prison in SLierbJrn, Mass, is
said to be only % years OF age
Countess de BIron (nee De Lesseps) drives
ABOUT IN tlST S1oDU iSLOTld uTeS5tl IN
white paneled silk with hand-painted
flowers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, who first brought
to this country from Germany the kinder
garten method of teaching children, is still
living in Boston.
Miss Kate Marsden, an English woman,
has been decorated by the Empress with the
insignia of the Russian Red Cross for ser
vices as a nurse during the war with
Turkey.
A negro named Rogers has purchased
Alexander IL. Stephens old homestead near
Marietta, Ga, has renovated it and has es-
tablished his family there.
Miss Alice Wood, the daughter of the man
who works the farm of the late Judge John
Porter of Queecher, VT, has just moved
field of grass fifty acres in extent.
Henry Savage Landor, gifted young art
ist, aud grandson of Waller Savage Ian
dor. the poet and critic, is now travelling and
painting in the interior OF Japan.
NJ. de Lesseps is passing the summer on
Agnes Sorel, the fayorte OF Charles VII.
He is fond OF hunting and passes a good
part of his time on horseback.
The present HarPers are Prandsons of the
original printers, but they retain their adj
heIence TO he craft. They are still printers
and each one OF the family that intends en-
| terng the firm must first learn the trade.
| He starts as an apprentice aud is not adj
mitted to the firm until he has mastered the
craft.
A New York newspaper correspondent is
authority for The statement that the erst-
while conspicuous Nellie Bly, has been re-
tanned by "a New York publisher to write
serials. The alleged salary would give
United States Supreme Court Justice more
pocket money than any one of them is prob
ably laying by from his present stipend.
Sir Edgar Vincent, who spent last sum-
mer at Newport, is t o be married in The early
part of next month to Lady Helen Dun
combe, the beautiful sister of the Duchess of
Leinster. Sir Edgar Vincent recently re-
signed the post of financial adviser of the
Khedive of Egypt in order to assume the
Office of Governor OF the Ottoman Bank at
ConstantinOple.
A beautiful young dancer, who promises
to excel Carnencita, and who has created a
genuine furOre in Paris in the person of
| Caroline Otero, is soon to appear at the
Eden Musee. where extensive preparations
calculated to make her engagement one of
| the most notable theatrical events Of the
season are now being made 0tero is
young Spanish Girl. She is the daughter of
| the Spanish General Otero, who attained q
worldwide reputation by his bravery in the
! war against Morocco.