The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-04
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT,

Count Herbert Bismarck is contemplating
a visit to America.
Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of Robert
Eismere." is famous china painter.
There is no stone or shaft upon the spot
where General Putnam lies, at Greenwich,
Conn.
King Oscar Of Sweden is a collector of
books of poems, with autographs of the
writers.
DR.. Phillips Brooks cannot be persuaded
to wear bishops ring or any other jewelry
on his fingers.
Since he retired from the Collectorship of
the port of New York Daniel Magone has
been practicing law at Ogdensburg.
Gilbert says London Punch once declined
1.-The Yarn of the Nancy Bell" on the
ground that 1t was too cannibalstic.
The illnessof General Benjamin +. Butler
does not disappear as rapidly as had been
hoped but lis condition is not at present
critical.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne of Knox
vile. Tenn, are preparing for the celebra-
ton of the seventy-Secund anniversary of
their wedding
blind Tom," the musical prodigy, who
astonished the public by his performances
some years ago, Is spending his last days in
al insane asylum.
Andrew jackson, when Judge of the Su-
preme Court, held the first court ever con-
yened in Tennessee under an old sycamore
tree at Elizabethton.
Bllsota has lectured in Vienna on the
probable effect OF the small-bore rifle. He
thinks that future wars must be short,
owing to the tact that a modern rifle bullet
will go through several men at time.
General PieXotto. the new Brazilian Pres
ident, Is Il Suidler-lIke man, past the middle
age, of dark or swarthy complexion and
wearing bis gray hair close cut As a sol
der his record has been respectable rather
than Brilliant.
Mrs. Philippine Overstnltz of St. Louis is
said to be the only yuung lady President
Grant danced with during his occupancy of
the White House. She was his partner in
THE dance when lie visited the Mound City
alter his Inauguration.
Mnna Irving has been visiting and weep
Ing over the home and tomb of Washington
Irving at larry town, where, in rambling
old cottage, The great authors nieces, the
Misses Irving. still live in quiet. which they
refuse to allow curoSity-seekers to disturb.
One odd experience in the life of Sir Ed
win Arnold seems not yet to have been
brought out in the course OF his visit to New
York. To win wager made with lady
he climbed 1900 feet to the top of Full San
i'll Japan, and wrote Oh the edge of its crater
pictui esque poem of ninety-two lines.
Dom Pedro is described by Paris corre-
spondent as being much disturbed in mind
over the situation in Brazil. He lives"
says the writer, simply and unaffectedly.
yet with dignity, in a family hotel near the
Madeleine, where he has lodging, to use
his words, large enough for a Door old soli-
tary widower whose interests are beyond
his own hearth and the greatest of them be-
You'd the ocean"
Mark Twain, who went to Berlin recently,
has been the object of great interest to the
people of Germany's capital. His portraits
have been printed in the daily and weekly
papers, long arti les upon his life and works
a. hslara Han. o..
have been given of his fabulous wealth.
Twain's works have long been translated
into the German language. The bumorist
is popular in the Fatheriand.