The record-union., 1891-03-15

printed III the Press, was quickly recog
nized as the productions of Mrs. Porjer's
pen. EMMA TRAPPER
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT
John Russell Young declined the prof
| fered mission to China for purely domes-
tic reasons.
Lady Helen Vincont, an English lady,
has received from the Sultan of Turkey
the highest order ever bestowed on wo-
man.
trated by the death of her son to take up
the pen. Not yet" she wrote recently.
''Wait bit.''
Townsend, the Georgia brakeman who
blaclsed John L. Sullivan's eyes, has al
ready received tempting offers from the
museum managers.
Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist, de-
clares in letterto Texas friend that his
health has failed, and he is on the verge
of physical collapse.
Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus),
now 90 years of age, is great pedestrian, 4,
and is said to have walked thirty-six
miles in one day recently.
James Russell Lowell has completely
! suspended work until next autumn at
least, SO that he may stand better chance
of entirely regaining his health.
The Marquis of Lorne's new book,
From Shadow to Sunlight" is said to
have for its heroine young American
girl whom he once met and greatly ad-
mired.
The Youngest school marln in the world
is Clara Greenawald, of Bernyille, Pa
She has forty public school scholars, be-
gan work five months ago and is only Is
years Of age.
Nine. Won Teuffel, nee Blanche Willis
Howard, is. still living in Stuttgart, writ
ing busilyssin the hope Of producing sofne
'One Summer"
John Currie, the Scotch evangelist, who
has been on the Pacific Coast forSwo years
past. is in Salt Lake City, where he will
remain for about a month the guest 81
General Secretary Murphy of the Y NJ
C. A.
Rider Haggard has written to New
York friend that he finds America ''sim-
ply delightful, full of material for the
novelists, and fuller still of that clear
ozone which makes man feel as if he
wants to write"
Edward Bellamy's best friends seem
| to think he has made great mistake in
starting weekly, and that only financial
disaster will come from it. As yet the
new paper has certainly made but little
noise in the literary world.
] oOSiStsliy is Out 1OE
| tlonaP' every fine afternoon. His favor
| lte walk is one of the many roadways in
tersecting the reservatiel back Of the
| White House, and 'freGIeritly the walk is
extended around the monument.
Professor III. III. Boyesen is writing a
| novel which deals with American politi-
cal life. The author has given it the title
OF The Mammon of Unrighteousness,"
| and he has aimed to make it strictly
truthful, realistic and free from partisan
| bias.
This remark is imputed to Governor
Jones, of Alabama, when he heard that
the people of Athens, in that State had
hung him in effigy: ''They should have
notified me that they intended to hang
me, and would have issued pardon to
myself"
Stuart Robson, the actor, will be mar
ried in April. His bride will be Miss
May Waldron, his leading lady. This in
| formation comes from an intimate friend
of the brides family, and may be relied
| upon. RobSon'S first wife died about q
| year ago.
Emma Albani Gye, the famous song
| stress, has written an article in which she
describes how her Majesty Queen Victo-
ria takes tea with her three times year
and how she acts at dinner. This knocks
all the romance off Ward BlcAllister's
dining with her Majesty's chef"
Mrs. Potter Palmer and the rest of the
lady managers OF the Worlds Fair have
requested that the Isabella building be a
woman's building architecturally, artis-
tically and in every other sense The
women architects, designers and decora-
| tors all over the country have been in
vited to send in plans.
! An enterprising literary friend recently
sent Mr.. Gladstone an offer of Sl5, 900 for
the American rights to novel from his
4 +l t.-l.< -
man, through the hand of his Secretary,
assured his friend that Mr.. Gladstone was
content to read fiction, and willing to let
the writings be done by other pens.
Susan Helen Holman, of New York, is
learning to be locksmith. She amuses
herself picking the locks of her neigh
| bors' front doors, trunks and chests. She
ously pocketed for the reception of her
tools, and from an old Dutch girdle of
wrought iron studded with green stones
hangs chatelain and keys of all sizes.
Miss Virginia Reid was the mother of
American newspaper women. In 1772
she purchased and edited weekly called
the Ii,giaia Gazette, paper deyoted to
the colonial cause. In 1774 Mrs. II. Boyle
established rival Journal which she
called the Royal NetcS, and the two ladies
pulled hair, threw stones and called each
other names in the most approved style
OF continental journalism.
The millionaire, John II. Starin, of
New York, was a poor boy. The first
pair of boots he ever owned he wore only
in the village, carrying them on his shoul-
ders while going to and fro, SO as not to
wear them out. He now owns fine es-
tate of 400 acres in Montgomery County,
n. Y, near his birthplace. 81 bought
that place." he writes, because of the
fine flavor of the apples that grew in q
certain orchard where 1 used to hook
them, when was a bareheaded, barefoot
ed boy in a pair of cut-down trousers held
on by one suspender strap. used to say
that If ever got rich I'd own that orch
ard, and now do own it,"
Daggett-"I should think you'd be
ashamed to talk to minister that way!
Don't you respect his cloth?' Wyde
Pladd (the tailor)-''Well, I ought to. It