The morning call., 1891-05-16
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Senator Plumb processes an intrepid faith
in the future OF sorghum.
Princess Beatrice may be aaid TO be de-
cidedy stout, as she weighs 2l0 pounds.
Ex-senator Ingalls, is going to lecture, and
starts upon his avenging career in October.
Queen Marguerite of Italy is a devoted
student of the Hebrew language and litera-
ture.
"Old Hutch" is having jolly good time
and IS making corner In the red paint
market.
Jenny Lind, according to her memoirs
just published, diSiikeI her career as a pro-
1essonal sODgstres' very much.
Max Schneckenburger, the author of ''The
Watch on the Rhine" is to have monu-
ment at Tutlingen in the Black Forest.
Frank Work. the well-known Nall-street
operator. and once lieutenant of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt has retired from Wall
street.
Providence, r. l., has the oldest acting
and active banker in the country. This is
Eli Aysworth, who at 80 knows gilt-edged
paper on sight
Thomas A. Edison says the secret of sue
cess IS to do but one thing at time; a con-
troll Of thought and attention it takes some
years Of patience to learn.
Miss Kate Field Acknowledges herself
hero woTShiper, like all women, adding
this Justification: IF they were not what
would become OF the men?
John Bull0ugh. the Scottish millionaire
who died recently, was the husband Of
Shella, the heroine of William Blacks
novel, "A Princess of Thule"
Carmen Sylvia, Queen of Roumania, is the
author of play which has just been sue
cessfully tried in Vienna. The heroine IS
brcked up alive in the third act
Grace Greenwood is nearly blind owing to
cataracts on her eyes. and will soon become
entirely so Tor time, and permanently
should the operation fail TO remove them.
EX-MIniSter Phelps. who represented this
country at the Court of ST. James under
the Cleveland administration, is now lee
tuTer on International law at Yale College
The letter-carrierS' statue of Sunset"
Cox is nearly ready for being placed in posi-
ton. A dozen different sites in New York
are clamorlng Tor recognition. though it is
thought that Central Park will win the dav
Princess Clotilde has written to a Paris
publisher stating that for the present at
least 'PiOn- Plon's" political correspondence
cannot be made public, rs it contains mat
ter compromising well-knoWn personages
still living.
President j. s. Clarkson OF the National
Republican League IS just 46 years old. lie
has lived IN Iowa tince he was boy of II,
and he began his career In life as a compost
TOT OH the Iowa State Register, of which he
IS now the owner
Carl Schurz, who as President of the
Hamburg american Packet Company, has
made a study Of the most improved meth DDS
Of ocean travel, believes that steamers will
yet be built to make the run across to Europe
in three or four days
The Duke of Clarence and Avondale.
vari0usly known as Prince Eddie" Prince
Collars and Cuffs" and Duke of "Claret
and Lemonade" is just q, and while he is
no great shakes, he can have his pick Of the
royal ladies of Europe.
Ex-senator Reagan of Texas, whose resig-
nation from the United States Senate fol-
lows closely upon that Of Edmunds of Yer
mont. was in Jefferson Davis Cabinet at
the close of the war; and fled from Rich
mond with him, narrowly escaping capture
Major Jones, who has sent in his resigna-
ton as United States Consul at Cardiff, and
is expected to accept nomination TO the
British Parliament from a Welsh constit-
uency, is Welshman by BIRTH but won
his title in a Wisconsin regiment during the
Civil War.
Queen Natalie of Servia has no back
do"n in her composition. She is clear grit,
and when some of the Cabinet Ministers be-
gan to hint about driving her out of the
country she quietly pointed out the law
which provides four years Imprisonment for
any one trying TO enforce such an idea