The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-19
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.


NJ. Constans, the French Minister of the
Interior. is ill with influenza in Paris.
Secretary Blaine declared to friend that
he had been counted out in New York in
1884.
Hawthorne and Longfellow went to Bow
dom College as classmates, and each wrote
verse during his college days.
The Emperor of Germany receives over
GOO letters per day, but tits an open question
IL he reads rs many in month
Murat Halstead expects 10 spend the win
ter in Southern Europe, writing weekly
letter from the various places of interest he
may visit.
Thomas F. Bayard is yearnng for q seat
In the Senate again, and as the State is a
sort OF pocket borough the yearning will
probably be gratitied.
The Polish pianist Paderewski. is in the
habit OF practlcing the piano from eight to
ten hours day, much to the disgruntiement
OF the rest of the boarders.
William III loves homely fare. He insists
on having on his table every Thursday a
dish Of mashed peas. smoked beef and
sauerkraut, to be eaten together.
1t is only a few years ago that F. T. Du-
bois, now Senator from Idaho, with a sal
airy OF $4,000 year, was trying hard to get
$500 clerkship In Washington.
Joseph w. Bailey is our youngest Con-
gresham. He is from Texas and has lived
-
the same number OF winters, not to mention
springs and falls.
The Comte de Paris has notified his inten-
ton OF employing the money that wRs be-
queathed to him by the Marquis de Saint
Astler in the foundation of a free school of
agriculture at Buries
The Marquis of Asia has made romantic
marriage with pretty young woman who
had been Interested in Zenana mission work,
whom he met for the first time in a steam
er returning from India.
Since 1t has been announced that ex-Sen-
ator Blair has concluded to resume the prac-
tice of law in New HampS hire. the unfor-
tunate Judges in that State are coming in
Tor widespread sympathy.
Judge Joseph Allison OF the Philadelphia
Common Pleas Court completed recently
forty continuous years of judicial service.
and the event was properly recognized by
the members of the bar of that city.
Bret Harte is in London and will proba-
bly, never return to this country. bis hair
is snowy white, but no still retains mis- old
fire. The author of 1.-THE Heather Chinee"
and The Luck of Roaring Camp" is only
fifty-thrce.
The will of the late Caroline S. White,
who was well-known school-teacher in
Philadelphia, is one of the briefest on rec
ord. 1t reads: Don't forget that every
thing possess goes to Emily; she is to be
my sole heiress." Emily is her daughter,
ana Is TO receive S6000
DIR. Charles C. Abbott has found cave
Of slate in New Jersey in which were dis
covered yestiges of life of pre-Columbian
man. There were bits of charcoal, rude and
ancient pottery and an abundance of mus
sci shells about to show the existence Of an
occupant of the cave. possibly one of the
race OF IN ound-builders.
The elder Lord Lytton was notable
dandy In his day. fohd of clothing himself
In costly attire. Macaulay says, in one of
his letters. that coat worn by BuIwer on
one occasion cost more than the coats worn
by any other five members of Parliament.
His son. the late Owen Meredith, inherited
none of this taste for extravaganza in dress,
but, ON the contrary. inclined to the other
extreme.
Old Red Cloud, who was deposed from his
position as chief of the Sioux to make way
for American Horse, younger man, is now
pitilul spectacle. it is said. He frequently
visits the Chadron agency and weeps and
walls about his fall from power. He is now
rapidly growing blind and seems to be dy ing
from broken heart. His aged squaw re-
mains faithful to him. and he is popular
with the Sioux nation.