The morning call., 1891-03-20
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

General o. o. Howard denies that he is
the author of a biography of General Sher-
man.
The Duchess d'Uzes, who spent a fortune
in the cause of Boulanger, Is i'll IN Paris
with fever and ague
George Francis Train is as agile and mus
cular as he was twenty years ago, and Walks
With the same brisk energy.
Nine. Bernhardt having adopted pretty
little five-year-old girl, the question arises,
"What will she do with it ?"
Mr.. Mckee, President Harrison's son-in-
law, is almost as short In stature as the
old gentleman, and slender almost to thin
ness.
Rossi is acting in Vienna in Tolstoi's
"Iyan the Terrible" with immense sue
cess. After one act he was recalled fifteen
times.
Queen Victoria's granddaughter, who is
the wife of the Grand Duke Sergius of Rus
sa, is about to be converted 10 :he Greek
Catholic faith.
During the thirty years that the late
Judge Pitman Of Massachusetts, served on
the beach, court was never adjourned on
account of his ill-health.
Ex-senator Ingalls, is visiting his aged
parents in West ROXbury, Mass. He de-
MES the rumor that he is about to re-enter
journalism in New York.
Sir John A. Macdonald thinks that the
IiIlt sUUulu Ub TbStTVtu LOT
Canadians. He calls the people of the
United States yankees"
Herr Gustav Freytag. the well-known
author, who is now about 70 years of age.
was married at Vienna recently, to Nine.
Strakosch, who separated from her other
husband.
The health of Mrs. Stanford gives consid-
cradle anxiety to her friends, and it was be-
cause of this that her husband. the Senator,
did not care to accompany Mr.. Hearst'S re-
mains to California.
Spencer Pratt, Minister to Persia, now
displaced, is bachelor of 50. He is tall
and slim, with regular features and Van
dyck beard. His salary was $500, but his
opportunities were great.
General John NJ. Corse who has Just been
succeeded as Postmaster of Boston by ex-
Mayor Hart OF that city, was with General
Sherman in his March to the Sea-" and
sent to "0ld Tecump" the message from
Allatoona that he would hold the fort.
Nine. Bernhardt is said to be of Hol-
lander-Jewsh origin, and to have been born
in Amsterdam about forty-siX years ago,
Less is known to the public of the ante
cedents of this brilliant French actress than
of almost any other artist who has gained
like celebrity.
Joe Jefferson has no patience with the
system of giving passes to theatrical per-
fOrmances, and when he wants his particu-
buys bunch of tickets and hands them
around. He doesn't want to rob the box
office in entertaining his guests.
Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria is happily
married 10 the Princess of Paz, the daughter
of ex-Queen Isabella of Spain. They are a
model couple and have sense enough to keep
the old lady at respectable distance and to
have no spare bedroom if she should hap
pen to drop in upon them unexpectedly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner are
enjoying themselves in Florence, that artisti-
cally delrious and deliciously dirty city,
which is to every visitor strange jumbleo of
palaces and pictures, of beauty and Deggars,
of sculpture and sodden bread, and where
the Very mendicants are redolent of glory,
garlic and gayety.
Thomas Ball, the sculptor, is busy with
colossal Washington in bronze, which Mrs.
Hopkins-Searle is about to give to the town
of Metheren. The base of the statue will
contain busts of the great Revolutionary
Generals, and at each corner will be figures
emblematical of Oppression, Revolution,
Victory and Peace.