The record-union., 1891-03-15

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done by women and by men on women,
printed in the Press, was quickly recog-
nlZeu as the productions of Mrs. Porter's
pen. EMMA TRAPPER.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
John Russell Young declined the prof
fered mission to China for purely doInes-
tic reasons.
Lady Helen Nincont, an English lady
has received from the Sultan of Turkey
the highest order ever bestowed on q wo-
man.
Mrs. Burnett is still too much pros
trated by the death of her son to take up
the pen. Not yet" she wrote recently.
"Wait bit.n
Townsend, the Georgia brakeman who
BACKED John L. Sullivan's eyes, has al
ready received tempting offers from the
museum managers.
Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist, de-
clares in letter TO Texas friend that his
health has failed, and he is on the verge
of physical collapse.
Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Renlus),
now 90 years of age, is great pedestrian,
and is said to have walked thirty-siX
miles in one day recently.
James Russell Lowell has completely
| suspended work until next autumn at
least, so that he may stand a better chance
| of entirely regaining his health.
The Marquis of Lorne's new book,
From Shadow to Sunlight" is said to
have for its heroine young American
girl whom he once met and greatly ad-
mired.
The Youngest school marIn in the world
is Clara Greenawald, of Bernyille, Pa.
She has forty public school scholars, be-
gan work five months ago and is only Is
years of age.
Nine. Won Teuffel, nee Blanche Willis
Howard, is. still living in Stuttgart, writ
| ing busilyyin the hope of producing SOME
work that will second the famous little
| 'One Summer"
John Currie, the Scotch evangelist, who
has been on the Pacific Coast foriwo years
past. is in Salt Lake City, where he viii
remain for about a month the guest 81
General Secretary Murphy of the Y. NJ.
| C.. a.
Rider Hagyard has written to New
York friend that he finds America "sim-
ply delightful, full of material for the
noyelists, and fuller still of that clear
ozone which makes q man feel as if he
wants to write.''
| Edward Beliamy's best friends seem
to think he has made great mistake in
starting weekly, and that only financial
| disaster will come from it. As yet the
new paper has certainly made but little
noise in the literary world.
Secretary Blaine is out for ''constitu-
| tionaf' every fine afternoon. His favor
| ite walk is one of the many roaeways in
tersecting the reservatiQ1 back of the
! White House, and freGleTtly the walk is
| extended around the monument.
Professor IL. II. Boyesen is writing q
novel which deals with American politi-
cal life. The author has given il the title
of THE Mammon of Unrighteousness, -
| and he has aimed to make it strictly
truthful, realistic and free from partisan
| bias.
This remark is imputed to Governor
Jones, of Alabama, when he heard that
| the people of Athens, in that State, had
hung him in effigy: ''They should have
notified me that they intended to hang
me, and would have issued a pardon to
myself"
Stuart Robson, the actor, viii be mar
| ried in April. His bride will be Miss
May Waldron, his leading lady. This in
! formation comes from an intimate friend
OF the brides family, and may be relied
| upon. RobSon's first wife died about q
year ago.
Emma Albani Gye, the famous song
stress, has written an article in which she
describes how her Majesty Queen Victo-
ria takes tea with her three times veal
all the romance of Ward McAllisters
dining with her Majesty's chef.'
Mrs. Potter Palmer and the rest of the
lady managers OF the Worlds Fair have
requested that the Isabella building be 8
| woman's building architecturaily, artis-
tically and in every other sense. The
women architects, designers and decora-
| tors all over the country have been in
vited to send in plans.
| An npterprisiuo Ii;ararv f-iap5 raoanflv
sent Mr.. Gladstone an offer of $4,000 fol
the American rights to novel from his
pen. A reply from the English states
man, through the hand of his Secretary
assured his friend that Mr.. Gladstone was
content to read fiction, and willing to lei
the writings be done by other pens.
Susan Helen Holman, of New York, is
learning to be a locksmith. She amuses
herself picking the locks of her neigh
bors' front doors, trunks and chests. She
wears suit of brown homespun copi-
ously pocketed for the reception of hel
| tools, and from an old Dutch girdle oi
wrought iron studded with green stones
hangs chatelain and keys of all sizes.
Miss Virginia Reid was the mother Of
American newspaper women. In 177e
she purchased and edited a weekly called
| the Virginia Gazette, paper devoted to
| the colonial cause. In I7I4 Mrs. II. Boyle
established a rival journal, which she
called the Royal NetsS, and the two ladies
pulled hair, threw stones and called each
other names in the most approved style
of continental journalism.
The millionaire, John II. Starin, ot
New York, was a poor boy. The first
| pair of boots he ever owned he wore only
| in the village, carrying them on his shoul-
ders while going to and fro, SO as not to
| wear them out. He now owns a fine es-
tate OF 100 acres in Montgomery County,
n. Y, near his birthplace. II bought
| that place. he writes, because of the
fine flavor of the apples that grew in a
certain orchard where / used to hook
them, when 1 was bareheaded, barefoot
ed boy in pair of cut-down trousers held
on by one suspender strap. / used to say
that if ever got rich rd own that orch
ard, and now do own it"
Daggett-'I should think you'd be
ashamed to talk to a minister that way
| Don't you respect his cloth?n Wydf
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