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

Miss Antoinette Knaggs, college-edu-
Gated young woman OF OHIO, owns and man
ages farm of 200 acres.
Secretary Rusk is said to be almost as
much of ali enthusiast over base bail as the
head OF the Treasury Department
Representative Culbertson Of Texas is
one of the great judicial minds of the
House. He is large and somewhat phleg-
matte in body
NJ. Meilhac, the successful comedian, is
plump, round and jolly man. His colleague,
NJ. Ludoyic Halevy, is just his opposite, be-
Ing tall, serious and elegant.
The Pope. despite his extreme age and
feebleness, retains wonderful hold on life.
His faculties are unimpared, and his men,
DRY is particular strong and accurate.
Marquis ProspeTo Marsigli, the wealthy
italian nobleman who recently died in Be-
logna, bequeathed 10000 lire to the Pope to
say masses for the repose of his soul.
The last defendant of the Maid of Or
leans, according to foreign papers, died re-
Gently in France. He was an inspector in
the Commissary Department of the army.
Lord Wolseley, the famous English Gen.
eral, is small man, with slim, 1.-the fig
ure. His face IS rudy, his eyes small and
ne wears dropping, gray mustache. He is
5S, and his hair has grown white.
The Princess Helene of Montenegro. who
may some day be the CZarina, for she is re-
ported to be the allotted bride of the heir
apparent to the Russian throne, is said to
be the prettiest royal girl in Eastern Europe
Like Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt pleads
guilty to nervousness before the rising of
the curtain. 81 am always nervous" she
says. because l am intensely afraid of
falling below my previous standard of act
ing."
The general impression that ex-State
Senator j. S. Fassett, just appointed Col
lector of the port of New York. ia A million.
alrp ia said n hp TIa
Portable fortune, but it does not run up into
the millions.
Rev. Edward Beecher's adopted daughter
received at her baptism the name of Voice
Adams. She was one of family of fifteen
chlidrtn, whom her father. gre~t-grand-
son of John Quincy Adams. supported by
lecturiDg on 1.-The Voice of Nature"
The German Emperor, when boy, was
not noted Tor any unusual proficiency in his
studies. He was very democratic as a
youth. and during the three years he spent
at school at the Cassel Gymnasium he met
the other boys on terms of equality.
AT the unwilling of the Jackson monu-
meut at Lexington, Va, Mrs. Jackson sat
just behind the famous Generals present
She is in the prime of life, her black hair
still unmixed with gray, and she possesses a
most attractive face. Her eyes are large
and dark.
Thomas Baldwin, the aeronaut. was poor
and thriftless till he took to dropping from
balloons in parachute. Now, after exhib-
itins his daring in three quarters of the
globe. he is we'll to do, and his wife wears
hne diamonds and decorations which ad-
mirers Of her husbands exploits have given
| her.
Sergeant John Leirch, now citizen OF In
dianap0lis, was one of the brave Six Hun
bred who rode up to the mouths of the guns
OF Balaklava. He was boy of II when he
enlisted at Nottingham in the Eighth Hns-
sars, which formed part OF the famous
Light Brigade, and is still straight and
soldierly man.