The morning call., 1891-01-02
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs. jefferson Davis and her daughter
Winnie are in New York.
Mrs Elizabeth c. Custer, the widow of the
great cavallyman, says that she is not a can
didate for the office of State Librarian in
Michigan.
Mrs. John Drew has been on the stage
sixty-three years, having made her first ap-
pearance in 1927 as the little Duke of York
in Richard Ill"
Vice-President Bryan of the Local Worlds
Fair Association of Chicago announces that
he wIli accept only $1,000 of the salary of
$4,000 that was voted him.
Grand Duke Nicholas one OF the Cars
uncles, has become insane and has been
placed under restraint. He is 60 wears of
age and has had most adventurous career.
his life being filed with sensational scan
da!s.
Daniel Salisbury and his wife, of Lac Oui
Parle, Minn., are probably the Oldest mar
ried couple in this country. They are IO3
and 1Dl years old respectively, have been
married eighty years and are still "ouite
smart"
The Empress of Russia is 43 wears old.
She was never pretty, and is now exhibiting
tendency to grow stout She Is the second
daughter Of the Danish King, ard ia three
years younger than the Princess of Wales,
her sister.
The young Duke of Orleans proposes to
piled Tor attachment to one cf the infantry
regiments. He will probably be sent to the
Caucasus where there is a possibility of
lighting with the Turks.
a. b. Frost is one of half a dozen Amer
lean illustrators to whom art has brought
handsome fortune, "lettered ease" and rural
comfort. lie. lives on good-SiZed farm
near Madison, n. j.. dresses as lie will, and
dlSpenSes generous hosp itality.
james Russell Lowells sister, Mrs Put
nam oil Boston, is noted as a linguist, and is
Inc author OF some very able papers on
Polish and Hungarian literature. She has
also written dramatic poem. Mrs. Putnam
was born in 1910, and is nine years older
than her distinguished brother.
Baron Huddleston, known in England as
the last OF the barons," because he was the
last to receive that title before it was abol-
ished, is dead. lie gained distinction in
Parliament and as Solicitor-General and
Judge. His wife, Lady Diana Beauclerc,
was the sister Of the Duke of st. Adams.
In recent interview William d. Howells
was asked as to lis method of work, and if
his plots were outlined before he began
writing. He answered: As the saying
goes, | usually know how the story is COM
ing out but OF course the detail of the plot
Is developed as we write, and often, too, the
incidents oil our daily life are woven into the
story"
Sitting Bulls language was a compound
oil pure Sioux and mongrel English, in which
number Of French words were mixed. The
latter had been picked up from the post
traders, and as their expressions were fire.
quently more emphatic than polite a ten
uerioot was apt to be surprised when talk
Ing with the Indian Chief by the vigorous
meaning OF his phrases.
Emerson's old home at Concord is barom-
ing more and more shrine for the library
piIgrim; II Is now the hospItable home of
One OF the most interesting relics In the
house Is a fine old classic engraving that
was presented TO Mrs. Emerson by Carlyle
as wedding gift. On the back of it is
pasted the paper containing Carlyle's auto
graph inscription.
Schiller, Goethe and Leasing are about to
be introduced into Constantinoples The
Crown Prince Of Meiningen, who has al
ready earned some repute by his transla-
tions OF German classics into modern Greek,
will undertake the temporary management
OF the Greek tbeater In the Turkish capital
for the performance OF Schillers Robbers
Lessing's Emilia Galcotti," and other Ger
man dramas in modern Greek.
Chrysanthemum dances are all the rage
in England just now. At great ball in
Birmingham the other evening Mrs. Her.
bert Chamberlain was dressed as a white
chrysan themum in a skirt of white silk.
stiffened and shaded to represent the petals
of the flower; bodice of green silk to repre-
sent the stem, with shaded velvet leaves
idAAiii5 Nu biC hllilC nhiil, anu nehu-ureSS OIL
petals, forming the heart of the flower.
The heart of Crane, the comedian. was
made glad last week by the receipt of
letter from London informing him that John
Coleman, the actor, had secured for him tue
original prompt-book of Henry W" be-
longing to William CreSwick, the old En-
glish actor, nov, dead, who was recognized
as one OF the best Shakespearean PLAYERS
ever produced by the English stage This
valuable book will come to him like Christ
mas present.
Esther and little Ben Holiday, the chill
fren OF the famous old overland stage
General Rufus b. Ingalls,, who intends to
place them in some New York school. The
estate Of their father has dwiudled. but
there still remains about 5000, coo To be di-
Vlded between them. General ingalls, was
one OF Holidays warm friends in the early
days long before he had amassed a fortune
from MS stage line and Decome the financial
and political autOcrat of Oregon.