The morning call., 1891-10-12
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The King of Siam is attended by body
guard composed exclusively of 1000 of the
prettiest young women in his realm.
General Robert E. Lee, according to all
accounts, was nearly as much given to kiss
ing the girls as General Sherman was.
S. l.. Clements Mark Twain is making a
tour of the French rivers in a fishing boat
He travels with courier, servant and pilot.
EX-Queen Isabel of Spain is taking beauty
baths at SchinZnach, where antiques are
renovated and time-worn flesh TINS are re-
stored.
Mr.. Thorncroft is now engaged upon a
marble statue of the late Lord Granville,
which is to be placed in the Central Hall Of
the House of Parliament.
DR.. jacob, the specialist in diseases of
women and children, says that the baby of
to-day has a much better chance of Lille
than the baby of fifty years ago.
Mrs. Besant is expected to create a great
stir as lecturer in India, where wOman's
appearance on the public stage is wide de-
parture from ancient and present custom.
The italian Queen is noted throughout
Europe as pedestrian. She also dis
plays an endurance in mountain climbing
that is considered remarkable for woman.
Governor Hovey of Indiana, General Lew
Wallace. and Senator voorhees, are members
of party which will leave indianapolis
next month to spend few weeks in Mexico.
Albert Bierstsdt, who is back in Wash
ingtOn after an absence of four months
will now devote himself asSiduously to fin
ishing his picture "rhe Landing of Column
bus"
Mary Lowell Putnam sister of James
Russell Lowell. is the only surviving mem
Der of the poets generation in the Lowell
family. Her eighty-frst birthday occurs in
December.
The Kaiser is an inveterate smoker So
was his father, Frederick III. But his fond
ness for the weed is not a circumstance to
that of Bismarck, who prizes good cigar
above great riches.
Rubinstein. the composer, is a man of
striking appearance. He has a massive
head, broad brain and heavy hair, in which
there is not single gray thread, despite his
age-62 years. As good feeder he has few
SuperOrs.
The Maharajah of Mysore is about to visit
England, having overcome the prejudice
which all good HindOOS feel with regard to
an ocean voyage. They abhor the ocean,
and crossing it breaks the caste of the Of
Tending parsonage.
The health of Prince Bismarck is now
said to be excellent. A German who visited
him recently said that the eX-Chancellor
spent more than two hours in the saddle on
one day and more than four hours in riding
over his estate in carriage on the following
day.
Sophie Gunsberg, the beautiful nihilst
privately executed some time ago in Rus
sian prison, is said to have been the original
heroine of Colonel Savage's novel, MY Of
fetal Wife" Colonel Savage is said to have
met the fascinating intriguante in Paris
once and to have been completely tanned by
her charms.
William Cotter Jr. of Hartford, Conn,
must have a reparkable memory. He is
Registrar of voters, and the Times says that
of 1900 names on the list lie claims 10 be
able TO tell from memory the residence and
politics OF every one, and also, in cases
where person has been absent in Europe
or staying in some other part of the coun-
try, TO tell where he went and when.