The morning call., 1891-10-24
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Dickens favori'e daughter, Mamie, is
soon to contribute a series of rapers on her
father to one of the magazines.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher's pet fad is the
keeping Of Java sparrows, canaries. gold
tinches, cockatoos and love birds.
r. Sidney Cooper. the British Royal
Academician, has just celebrated his eighty
eighth birthday. He is i'll excellent health.
Warner Miller has been studying the
canal system of Holland and the waterway
that the German Government is construct
ing.
Vice President Levi p. Morton comes
down from his country place at Rhinebeck
to his banking Cffice in Nassau street about
once week.
monument erected to Christopher Mar
lowe, the poet and dramatist, at Canter-
bury, England, was unveiled recently by
Henry Irving
n. A. Parker, who is reported to be the
oldest living college graduate OF the United
States, having left the University OF Ver-
mont in 1915. celebrated his one hundredth
birthday at FitZwilliam, n. H., recently.
The Duke of Portland has neckte for
every hour of the day and he never wears
his gloves twice. His h1sier's bill is about
$1,000 a year. The Duke of Fife spends
about the same amount.
Mrs. Mary Washington Finch, a grand
daughter Of General Washington, has the
nearest thing to the historic little hatchet-a
silver one made from spoon once owned
by the Father of his Country.
Charles Gaylur, now critically Ill at st.
Vineents Hospital, New York, has pro-
duced 23S plays since 1S49. besides, in his
earlier years. doing great deal OF theatrical
writing for Greeley and the elder Bennett.
After long absence from Parliament the
Marquis of Lorne, formerly Govern0r-Gen-
eral Of Canada, will seek a reelection.
When last he sat in the House Of Commons
lie was Liberal, but now he calls himself
a Unionlst.
The Russian Grand Duchesses are all
handsome women. The Cars daughter
presents a very pretty picture, with her
mild, blue eyes, auburn hair and clear-cut
delicate features.
gentleman living In Buffalo says: The
Courier has sent to Miss Ruth Cleveland n
case containing six tiny silver spoons, each
in the shape of pansy and of bright cOlors
in enamel. In the bowl of each is engraved
the name Ruth" and on the back the date
1881"
John d. Rockefeller, who has the largest
annual income of any man in America,
spent the summer working on his Ohio
farm, just as if he was common laborer'
and doing quite as much labor as any of his
his hired men. lie has done it in the pursuit
of health.
The Presidents nearest friend in Wash
ingtoD, always excepting Attorney General
Miller, his old partner, is Secretary Tracy.
General Tracy and the President had never
met before the former went to Washington
to take bis seat at the Cabinet table, but
they speedily became the warmest Of per-
sonal friends.
William Allen. nationally known years
ago as Land Bill Allen" was sent TO the
Columbus Ohio Poorhsnse last week. He
is said to have spent fortune in the work
that finally resulted in the passage by Con-
gress of the national homestead law, giving
actual settlers each 100 acres Of land. He
is So years old.
President Harrison has received unique
present from S. Elwood May of New York.
1t is an elephants forefOot, beautifully
dressed and mounted in ebony. The in
terror is followed out and lined with per-
fumed native woods and filed with the
choicest native tea. The foot is from the
island of Ceylon and is intended to repre-
sent native industries.