The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-15
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Shah of Persia is developing into
kodak fiend.
Mark Twain is said to allow himself SOC
cigars a month.
Daniel Lothrop, the Boston publisher, be-
gan his business career as an apothecary,
and without college education.
DIR. Talmage recently Travelled from Du-
buQue, Iowa, to Strong City, Kans., a dis
lance OF 2j4 miles. in 254 minutes.
Major Mckinley is a most devoted hus-
band. Every minute that he can spare from
his political duties he passes by the side OF
his invalid wife.
1t is said that Nine. Boulanger and her
daughter have abandoned their recently
cherished purpose of entering convent, ''in
order to tighten the burden of exile borne
by the General"
Considering that the Pope is weak, thin
and frail old man, it is wonderful how much
work he can get through-work in which
his unimpaired faculties and keen memory
are OF essential value.
Mile. Darnova, a wealthy and refined
Russian lady and a relative of the Gar S
Minister of the Interior, has commenc ed her
big task OF walking from Kieff to Moscow,
and thence on to Paris.
Miss Mary Proctor, daughter of the late
Richard A. Proctor, has appeared In the
newspaper field as a contributor of scien-
tIfc articles, somewhat after the style Of
liic ACKNOWLEDGMENT royal.
Miss Rachel Quincy, the fiancee of young
Lord Dudley, who is regarded as the great
est catch" in London, is very beautiful
girl of the Oriental type-dark-eyed and
dark-halred, with brilliant color in her
cheeks and carmine lips.
Marion Harland is large woman, of
matronly appearance, somewhat above me-
dunn in height. She has brown complex
ION, black hair that Is beginning to turn
gray, and a broad forehead She began to
write stories when a child OF years.
Professor Bacili of Atlanta, a nephew of
Adelina Patti, confdes TO his friends in the
South the fact that during his recent visit to
Craig-y-Nos he learned that the diva had
made "a will, in which he was placed on the
same footing as the Nicolini children.
If Christie Murray, the novelist. carries
out his idea OF playing part in the drama
which he has written for the Globe Theater.
London, the gods will rejoice muchly. 1t is
not often that they get the chance of telling
an author what they think Of his new piece
Senator ingalls, has placed himself among
the dead ducks so far as Presidential aspira-
tions are concerned. lie has referred to
Chicago as the gra6deSt city on the Ameri-
can Continent" and this will as effectually
shut him out of New Yorks good graces as
if he had burglarlzed Tanmany Hall.
Since Bismarck retired from his official du-
ties IN Berlin he has devoted himself largely
IN developing his business enterprises. In
Friedrichsruhe, especially during the last
year, his factories have been enlarged and
run to their full capacity. His potteries
have had more orders than they could ill.
A Bostonian who had an interview with
Mime. Blayatsky shortly before her death
says that the great priestess Of theOsophy
weighed at that time more than 800 pounds.
She was so ponderous that she could not sit
in an ordinary arm chair, and she was fond
OF speaking of herself as ''the old hlppopo-
Janus"