The morning call., 1891-07-31
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

George W. Cable is of the opinion that the
worlds greatest novel is yet to be written.
Mrs. Z. S. Grant will visit Saratoga this
month Tor the first time since the Generals
death.
The Crown Prince of Roumania has aban-
doned his proposed marriage to Mile.
EacarescO.
Mrs. Kendall gave reception to Marshall
p Wilder the other day which was attended
by 800 persons.
Laura Holloway Langford, who has with
drawn in large measure from newspaper
work for the last few years, is returning to
it.
Paul du Chailu, who is an original Amer
lean and noted as the discoverer of the go
rilla, is preparing novel on the Land of
the Midnight Sum-"
Senator Calvin S. Brice and Mrs. Brice
they were met by their daughter, Miss Helen
Brice, who has been for year at a convent
in Paris.
Captain Henry C. Hathaway of New
Bedford, Mass. was the American ship
master who rescued John Boyle O'Reilly in
the Indian Ocean, after he had escaped
from the Australian penal colony.
The late Leslie F. Morgan of London,
England, left S250,000 TO be distributed in
| four equal shares among the poor or any
| deserving charities of Philadelphia, ST.
Louis, Chicago and San Francisco.
c. de Cedercranz, the new Chief Justice
of Samoa, who has held Office six months,
has So far done absolutely nothing except to
draw his salary Of $500 month, which is
paid TO him under the treaty OF Berli n.
Lady Constance Campbell has been mar
red TO Thomas Emmott. the Lancashire
cctton-spnner. AS the daughter of the
Duke of Argyle she will maintain her title
and be Lady Constance Emmott to the end
of the chapter.
Henry Iabouchere, the famous free-lance
| London editor and Member of Parliament,
| is little, fat man, whom a correspondent
| who recently saw him, describes as sitting
| in a leather chair, twiddlng a grizZled
| beard. He is millionaire, radical and an
! insufferable wag.
Sir William Gordon-Cumming' relatives
and friends are being socially ostraczed for
| their loyalty TO him. Lord and Lady Mid
| dleton, the latter his sister, who chaperouei
! Miss Garner when she became Lady Gordon
! Cumming, were left out at the Marlborough
| House garden party.
Philip George d'Epinois is. perhaps, the
| most remarkable Waterloo survivor. He
was born in 1891, and still discharges the
| duties OF burgomaster in his native village
| Of Epinois les Binche. The CheyaIier
| d'Epinois was one of the civic guards
| who welcomed Leopold l to Belgium sixty
years ago.
Lord Charles Beresford is one of the
most useful men in the British service. He
divides his time between Parliament and
the sea. and having practical knowledge
of the navy and its wants is prepared 10
push intelligent reforms without regard to
The bigwigs and red tape mandates of the
Admiralty Department.
The late Calmann Levy, the Paris pub
Usher, was acquainted with nearly all the
famous French writers of the last half CEN
fury, and his house enjoyed almost mo-
nopoly of the dramatists. He was the last
OF four brothers, who were associated in the
book trade, and he inherited fortune of
SS,000.000 from his brother Michel, the
originator of the firm.
The Queen OF China is really to be pited.
AT least. so say the Chinese correspondents.
AS the very young wife Of her boy husband
she Is entitled to very large slice of royal
good times. But the Empress Dowager is a
strong-minded lady and rules with an lion
hand. She lisa woman of powerful physique,
strlklngly handsome and of SO firm and strong
disposition that all other wills must bend
to hers.