The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-03
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Queen Victoria has prohibited smoking at
Windsor Castle.
Jane Hading the actress, always wears
slippers and hose to match the color Of her
eyes.
Gladstone and Tennyson are of the same
age, 81 years, and the former has Just made
one OF the greatest speeches OF his life while
the latter has just written a comedy.
John H0ey's taste in gardening was per-
feet and he could lay out plat AS we'll as
he seems 10 have been able to lay out his
brother Directors in the express company.
For the first time since her conversion to
the orthodox faith the Grand Duchess Ser
gius of Russia has been permitted to visit
her father. the Grand Duke of HesSe-Darm-
stadt.
The lunacy of George s. Knight, the once
popular actor, is said to have assumed
hopeless form of insanity He has been in
a Philadelphia asylum for the last four
years.
Little Queen Wilhelmina OF Holland has
an neome of $4,000 guiders, or about
S250,00Q. Her reign will begin August 81,
1898. when she will have attained the age Of
Is years.
Adelina Patti will sail for New York by
the City of New York on December sd.
Her husband NicOlini, will accompany her.
She will first tour In concert and then ap-
pear in opera.
Prince Nicholas Of Montenegro is most
unblushing mendicant aud Is perpetually
passing the hat around to save his impov-
erishcd subjects from the starvation which
seems chronic to them.
Judge of Appeals Francis NJ. Finch, who
has just been elected dean of Cornell Uni
yersity Law School, is a Republican and
author OF the pathetic and popular poem
entitled The Blue and tho Gray"
Mrs. Martha }. Lamb who is an authority
on American history without her peeg in
the sex, is q member Of twenty-siX learned
societies, among Which are several which
have no other female members on their list.
Mrs. George j. Gould is not OILY hand
somer aud more winning than when she
was Edith Kingdom, but she is a model
housekeeper, who can cook well, make
clothes for her little ones and in thousand
ways make George the envy of his friends.
Baroness Marie Won Eoner Eschenbock is
the most famous woman novelist in Austria
who, for the past twenty years, has been
turning ont works of fiction which have
had a great run in the empire. She is 81
wears old and the proud mother Of seven
children.
The greatest heiress in Rome at the
present time is the eighteen-yoar-old Prin-
cess Maria Barberini- COl0nna, who will
bring to her future husband not only
fortune of $40, 100000 but also the title of
Prince Of Palestrina, Duke of Castle
Vecchio, the hereditary priorship of the
Order Of ST. John of Jerusalem, and the
hereditary rank oil Lieutenant General of
the papal forces.
Phillip Bousse, who served three years
under BOulanger in a st. Louis interview
the other day said: "Boulanger's aid told
me IN italy, before Solferino, that Boulan-
ger drank full pint Of neat absnthe every
night before he retired and consumed two
quarts of champagne at dinner. He also
smoked at least 100 cigarettes day and
took great quantities Of choral and NOR
phine. He was marked by the men who
were with him thirty years ago for a suicide,
or at least nobody ever expected him to die
from natural causes"