The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-08
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs. Langtry is said to have won $3.50. 900
at the Derby.
Sol Smith Russell. the actor, is fishing for
bass in BeTrien County, Mich.
Mrs Henry Ward BeecLer is looking much
improved by her trip westward.
Ex-Speaker Reed and Minister to Russia
Smith are in Paris and are having a royal
time,
Bismarck did not attend Won Moltke's
funeral Tor the simple reason that no wasn't
asked.
Sir Henry Parkes, the leading Australian
statesman, began life as a farm labOrer in
England.
Miss Bayard is going to make her home
with her sister, the widowed Countess Lew
enhaupt.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the twenty
eight-year-old heir 10 the throne Of Austria,
has the measles.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor has returned from
| Germany, and Will hencef0rth make her
home in this country.
Mrs. Koch, the wife Of the famous Ger
man specialist, has the entire charge of her
husbands immense correspondence.
Countess Lewenhaupt is at present in
/ Baltimore on a visit to her aunt, and at the
expiration of her stay in that city will re-
turn to Wilmington.
NJ. Chapu, the sculptor, who died re-
Gently, left unfinished a statue Of Byron de-
signed for the Greeks. 1t will be finished
| by one Of his pupils.
Dom Pedro, who has returned to his resi-
dence at Versailles after a sOjUurn of sew
eral months at Cannes, Is going to England
about the middle of June for two months.
Mrs. Philpot of Gainesville, Tex, is an
unasSuming little woman, who IS only 4
| feet in height; but her hair makes mp for
the deficiency. 1t is 10 1eet inches in
| length.
Lady Harcourt, the historian Motley's
daughter is one of the ceVerest women in
London society. She is very handsome and
has more than local celebrity because of
her wit
Mrs Julia Ward H0we's seventy-second
birthday was concentrated in many of
the public schools of Boston by reading her
famous hymn, Battle Hymn Of the Re-
public"
The Prince of Wales is direct de-
scendaut of King Alfred, being the thirty
third great-gTandsOn. Thus the English
throne has remained in the same family for
over 1000 years.
Grandfather Wales physician advises him
to live sparingly." 1t must sound like
hollow mOekery 10 the Prince to get this
kind Of advice after he is in debt to the ex-
tent of S1.700,00o.
Marion Harand is large. pleasan'. ma
tron-like woman. above medium height,
open air and plenty of exercise. She has a
broad forehead and hair just turning gray
Marie Wilt, the famous retired prima dom
ma, has been dismissed as completely cured
from the private asylum at FeidOff, near
Prague, aud the free disposition over her
fortune OF 500 0G0 forms has been restored
to her
The Prince of Wales has an income Of a
million dollars that the British public pays
for the support of himself and his family.
The Queen, in addition. gives him an annual
allowance OF about quarter OF that
amount.
Jean Jacques Weiss, the French Journal
ist who died last Wednesday, was the best
known newspaper man in France. Since
the death of the famous Emile de Girardin
he was noted as the first Journalist" Of his
country.
Rev. DR.. Scott, the father of Mrs. Harri-
son, will leave the White House early this
month. accompanied by his son, Judge
John n. Scott, for a trip across the CONT :
nent to the home of the latter at Port Town :
send, Wash.
John D. Rockefeller has sent word to the
OHIO oil-felds that hereafter the Standard
pumps must remain idle during the Sabbath.
| 1t is one of his theories that MEN can COM
pass better total Of results in six days la
Dor than in seven.
Lady Macdonald is remarkable woman.
She is tall, with abundant white hair and a
face that is stamped with energy and de-
termination. She is clever talker, an ON
niyerous reader, and the possessor OF extra
ordinary social graees.
Two of Grover Eleyelands nieceS are 10
be married at Walworth. Wayne County, n.
Y, on June 10th, and Mr.. and Mrs. Cieve-
land are expected to be present The brides
are daughters of L. T. Yeomans, whose wife
is the ex-President's sister.