Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

l1A-1 lSSiuCIl cS is Sulu W De WOTtH
nearly $1,00O,0OO.
1t is said that photographer paid
Stanley $1,000 to sit for portrait. Don't
believe it.
Carmencita, the famous dancer, can
neither read nor write, but possesses pair
of highly educated feet.
Rudyard Kipling has been proposed for
Tennyson's successor as poet laureate on
account Of his anti-Irish doggerel.
Chris. l.. Magee has given $4,000 to-
ward the erection of a home for newsboys,
bootblacks and messenger boys in Pitts
burg.
George w. Cable has returned from an
he has been gathering material for new
novel.
General Sherman will attend the re-
union of the Army of the Potomac at
Portland, Me-, ON July 4th, but declines to
go as the city's guest.
Commander McCalla is announced to
spend his three years of retirement at
Newport, his penance beginning there
with the coming gay season.
Countess de Kersaint has the most sue
cessful salons in Paris. She will receive
no gentleman unless he is clothed in as
gay colors and as fine stuffs as the women
A Berlin antiquary has come into posses
sion of the dagger with which Ravailac
assassinated Henry ". of France. 1t was
stolen from the Palais de Justice in Paris
in 1915.
A tho hA,o.oI i
mission to the floor of the House of Rep
resentatives-ex-members, of course, ex-
cepted-are the five surviving officers of the
Monitor.
The late Fletcher Harper was sailor
to the Chinese seas in his youth. There is
another Fletcher Harper, the third of his
name and great-grandson of the founder
of the Harper firm.
Genevieve Ward, who has been teach
ing elocution in Paris, is about to return
to the stage and has begun serious pre-
paration by ordering set of new costumes
from Felix, of Paris.
The Duke of Northumberland, perhaps
the greatest landowner in England, has
Just entered his eighty-irst year. He
owns more than 100000 acres, with .
iental OF 9S15,000 year.
/ Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the New England
poetess, whose home on the Isle of Shoals
has been one of the greatest attractions to
visitors there, is seriously i'll of tombi-
nation of nervous diseases.
Mrs. Philip H. Welch, widow of the
late humorist, whose death occurred about
year ago, has taken charge of chill
dren's department in the Saturday issue of
the Brooklyn Standard Union.
an Quad" the humorist and sketch
writer of the Detroit Free Press, is paid
SIPS week for his work. He weighs 125
pounds, is very eccentric, and is perfect
child in all business matters.
Recorder Smith is one of the best paid
officers in New York. He is said to be in
receipt of salaries aggregating $4,000 a
year, including an allowance of $4,000 for
office rent. His salary as Judge is $4,000.
Miss Kate Field has on her editorial
staff two prominent Vassar alumna, one
of whom Miss Caroline G. Lingle) has
been chosen one of the speakers at the
coming quarter-centennial of Vassar Col
lege.
Frank Tracy, son of Secretary Tracy,
will shortly sail for South America, to
represent the Edison phonograph in varl-
Gus capitals. The phoncgraph people
hope for great things as a result of his
mission.
Jay Gould has resumed his former
habit of spending one or two evenings
each week in the crowd of Wall street
men at an up town hotel He does not do
great deal of talking himself but he is
close listener to what others have to say
John I. Wood, who died in London the
other day at the age of seventy, was the
principal authority on the architectural
work of the Asiatic Greeks. He made
the excavations of the Temple of Diana
at Ephesus and restored much of its de-
tail.
Miss Courtney Walthal, daughter of the
Senator from Mississippi, is described as
by all odds the prettiest young woman in
the senatorial circle at Washington. She
is petite brunette with well-rounded
figure, clear complexion and beautiful
hazel eyes.
Mrs. John E. McElroy, sister of the late
President Arthur, is quiet little home
body, and lives at Albany. Her love of
domesticity, her charm of manner and her
beauty are still as notable as when she was
the first lady Of the land, presiding in the
White House.
The German Emperor always has
large box filled with orders when he is
on his travels, the value of which is some
$4,000. He is fond of suddenly produc-
ing one of these. with the needful diploma.
and giving it to somebody who is not ex-
pecting anything of the kind.
King Dinah Salifou, the dusky monarch
of the Nalous, who attended the Paris Ex-
position accompanied by the sons of sew
eral political opponents as hostages for
peace in his absence, is not dead, despite
the reports that he was poisoned or
strangled for introducing European Gus
toms.
Judge w. 7. Newman, of Atlanta, owns
pewter coin or medal bearing on one side
the representation of Independence Hall
at Philadelphia and the date 1776. On
the other side is the liberty bell, and the
inscription: Proclaim Liberty Through
out the Land, Unto All the Inhabitants
Thereof" with the denomination, "e5."
Professor Huxley's autograph attached
to letter containing the following passage
is offered for sale: Il look upon autograph
hunters as progeny from Cain and treat
their letters accordingly. Heaven forgive
you If you are only an unusually ingenious
specimen of the same race" That auto
graph was worth something to the man
who originally collected it.
William Waldorf Astor is probably the
richest young man in the world. The
only landed proprietor in England who
can compare with him in wealth is the
Duke of Portland, whose estates have been
accumulating through thirty or forty gem
erations. 1t is one of the marvels of the
new world that the wealth of William
Waldorf Astor is the accumulation of only
four generations, and yet it is equal or
greater than the largest estate in Eng
land.