The record-union., 1891-02-15
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT

| Gustav Freitag, the famous German
novelist, is dangerously i'll. His physi-
clans have ordered his removal to resort
TOR lnyalldS IN the southern part of Eu-
rope.
The Duchess of northumberland has
just been buried in Westminster Abbey
as Percy, the only family in England
retaining the prescriptive right to the
honor of interment there.
Emperor William, of Germany, knows
how to win the love of the boys He be-
| lleyes in athletics and outdoor exercise,
and has ordered that hereafter during the
skating season school shall close at noon
on Mondays.
Two of the best-dressed women in Eng
land are literary women-NIrs. Campbell
Praed and Mrs. Stannard. Their gowns
are tailor-made and cut in the simplest
style. In evening wear Mrs. Praed affects
rich, delicate brocades.
A curious scarf pin worn by a Nash
Vile man is petritied human eye, set in
gold frame. The present owner of this
singular ornament found it in Peru while
he was on an exploring tour in the land
! OF the lncas with party of scientists.
The late Irma Marie, the Paris opera
singer, was once woman of marvellous
beauty, with flashing black eyes and a
| superb figure, but before she retired from
the stage she had become thin and hag-
gard, a mere wreck of her former self.
Marmaduke Watson, of Philadelphia,
has devoted fifty-fOur years of his life to
school teaching, and has just been given
reception on the occasion of his retire
ment as Principal of the grammar.
schools in his city, at which many of his
former pupils, now gray haired men, were
present.
Mrs. May Wright Sewan, of the Girls
Classical School, of Indianapolis, says
rfyS will
higher education until society regards a
young woman who poses as a mere fam
lily and society ornament with the same
contempt with which it now regards the
young man who values himself for his
decorative qualities.
Nine. Modjeska's tour of this country
for next season has been completely
booked. a play on Marie Antoinette
will probably be a feature of her roper
tory. The Polish actress has met with
great success in her performances in her
naflve land, and arrangements are now
making for her appearance in London
before her return to this country.
Dethroned sovereigns per Sc receive no
recognition from Queen Victoria, though
she does not turn her back on an old
friend if he happens to have made an in
voluntary assignment in the king bus-
ness. So King Milan, of Servia, was in
formed when he vainly sought an audi
ence with Victoria. His representative
received this frigid tip from Lord Sails
bury.
One of the most notable will cases ever
tried in Virginia has just resulted in de-
cree by Judge Leake, in the Chancery
Court, in Richmond, giving 10 mulatto,
surviving daughter of w. A. Thomas,
property worth between S20O, GOO and $780,
600. Thomas died intestate, but it was
proven that he intended this girl, born Of
Wit I
woman, should have his fortune.
The Prince Regent Of Bavaria is not
particularly happy over the criticism with
which the proposal to celebrate his seven
tleth birthday has met. Members of the
Government proposed to call session of
the Landtag for the purpose of appropri-
atlng money to erect a statue to the Re
gent IN Munich. Great opposition, how
ever, has been made to the plan. The
members of the Centrum party also cb-
Ject TO project of the National Liberals
TO found museum in comrnemoration of
the event.
John III. Littlefeld, who recently lect-
ured in Concord, n. H., on Personal
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, :, was
told before he began his lecture there not
to expect much applause, AS a Concord
audience was prov erbialIy undemonstra-
tive; but during the lecture the audience
cheered so uproariousIy at Lincoln'S Sto-
fleS and hltS at Douglas i'll the great de-
bates of 1858 that the Chairman afterward
said that he never saw anything like it,
The people never seem to tire of hearing
about the great War President.
Among the deaths which that of Mr..
Window recalls, owing to some resem-
blance thereto, are those of the Earl of
Chatham, who fell into fatal commissions
while protesting against the attempt of
Great Britain to subdue the American
colonies; of ex-President John Quincy
Adams, who sank into his seat in the
House of Representatives in the midst of
an impassioned speech, and of Senator
''Zac" Chandler, who died in bed at his
hotel in Chicago a few hours after deliy-
ering brilliant speech in Mccormick
Hall.
One of Mr.. Vance's peculiarities is that
he smokes thirty strong imported cigars a
day, ten of them before noon. He rises
every morning az and smokes three
cigars before breakfast. He is also a
worshiper of the memory of Andrew
Jackson. Since / have been in Wash
ington," he said the other day to Con-
gresham Mansur, of Missouri, +" / have
not failed single morning on getting out
of bed at the Riggs House, where i live,
to light cigar, walk over to LAFAYETTE
Park, pause in front of the equestrian
statue of Andrew Jackson and reyeren-
TALLY lift my hat.''
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