The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-22
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Cleveland and Hill both made flying
visits to Newport last week.
Ex-Governor Biggs Of Delaware and his
two sons expect to sell $1,000 baskets OF
peaches this year.
Miss Gwendoline Caldwell is about to
purchase the Newport home Of the late
George Bancroft.
Tennyson was asked once 10 supply a
dozen birthday poems of eight lines each
for 1000 guineas. The poet refused.
Mrs. Samuel Mather of Cleveland, has
given $4,000 to the Woman's College Of
Western Reserve University at Cleveland.
Henry Hilton has fine collection of
fancy and co!ored diamonds, numbering
nearly 100 stones, in brown. yellow and
pink.
justices Brown and Brewer are the only
members of the Supreme Court who do not
own their houses in Washington, but they
will soon do SO.
German poet, whose death has just been an
nounced, was called in Germany 1.-THE mod
eru Minnesinger."
Verdi has purchased piece of land close
to Milan on which will be erected an asylum
for aged and Impoverished musicians. The
building is already begun.
Cabanel, the French portrait painter, has
pronounced Miss Matte Mitchell, the Ore
gon Senator'S daughter, the most beautiful
woman ever seen in Paris.
Jules Verne in his younger days was a
devotee of the baccarat table. He was at
that time handsome young fellow, with
blonde hair and blue eyes,
Minister Fred Douglass has a handsome
home in Anacostia, pretty suburb of
Washington, and he says that he would
much rather live there than in Hayti.
President Harrison, who expects to be at
Saratoga on Sunday, August 10th, will
probably spend the rest of the week in
Vermont with Secretary Proctor and SEN
ator Edmunds.
General Arson c. Cook, Secretary Of the
United States Senate. Is strongly built
mao, abou: 80 years Of age, and has dark
hair, mustache and eyes. He Is one of the
most agreeable and popular men In Wash
ington.
MS. James Brown Potter and KyrIe Bel
lew are in Singapore this month. They are
travelling without any supporting company,
but organize company of amateurs in
cities where they conclude to give an enter
tainment.
John d. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil
Company is at his summer home, near Cleye-
land. de is afraid he will never get well
again. The care of his vast wealth has used
him up completely, and yet he is by no
means an old man.
Mrs. Logan has left the Generals library
just as 1t was when he last occupied it, I'M
touched except by the dust-brush, aud I'M
CudHReu. IllS dIul-CHar SILL TelaiDS us
customary position, and hardly paper has
been moved from his desk.
The property left by the late Sir Richard
Sutton, owner Of the Genesta, is estimated
at over 100000. The heir to the estate is
a posthunous child only just born, and by
the time he becomes of age the fortune will
be among the very greatest.
Baron de Gondoritz. the Brazilian india
rubber merchant who is trying to corner the
entire rubber output of the Amazon region,
is an energetic man Of Portuguese birth, Al
years old. He is Of short and very portly
figure, with light complexion and red hair.
The Duke of Augustenburg, for whom it
is said his brother-in-law, the German
Emperor, wishes to arrange marriage with
one of the daughters OF the Prince of
Wales. is described as being exceedingly
proud and arrogant, desperately stupid and
by no means RICH"
John w. Bookwalter, the millionaire man
nfactnrer Of Springfield. Ohio. has been SUI
perlntending arrangements for building an
agricultural village ou his Nebraska trac t,
6O,000 acres. He is making arrangement S
for tour of Eastern Russia. He believe 8
Russia will be at war before great while,
and he wants to look over the country be-
fore that time comes.