The record-union., 1891-04-19

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! it has become the fashion to give the
nose paint shops" wide berth.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
General BouIanger has taken a small
house in suburb of Brussels. He Will
| live there permanently.
Count Herbert Bismarck, according to
| the Galignani Messenger, recently lost
| $4,000 in the Nice clubs.
| Verestchagin, the Russian novelist, can
afford to ride, though a literal translation
of his name is ''Walk a Mile"
President Carnot is said to be very
fond of German sausage and sauerkraut,
much to the disgust OF the French.
1t is estimated that a half million of
copies of Edward Everett Hales 1.-The
Man Without q Country" have now been
sold.
Professor Sumner Of Yale, who went to
! Europe in January for his health, has de-
rived no benefit. and viii remain abroad
the rest OF the year.
General Pacheco, Mexican Minister of
| Public Works, resigned his post to estab-
| lish an industrial colony at MortZorongo,
where he will teach Mexican boys to
raise sugar.
Mrs. Frank Leslie having announced
! her purpose TO befriend her sex in the
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tudinous applications from every source
to hurry up and do it now.
DIR. David Starr Jordan, President
! elect Of the Leland Stanford University,
| IS an athlete and sportsman, as well as
scholar and parson. He says of himself:
six feet one one-half inches high; I
weigh 2I5 pounds, but I can swim. play
| baseball and talk Norwegian" and you
cannot tell him much, if anything, that
| he does not already know about trout,
rods and reels.
The Pope is pronounced in better health
| than he has been in the past ten years.
No outsider, however exalted in rank,
| ever received an invitation to Leo XIIps
| table until Easter Monday, when, for the
! first time since the commencement of his
pOntiticate, he entertained at dinner
| small company, including the eX-Grand
| Duchess Of Tuscany, the Austrian Am
| bassador and wife, and several Cardinals.
The volume of Marie e. wilkins short
| stories reprinted here last year, says a
! London correspondent, has made her
unique artistic powers familiar to cult
| ured people in England. This month a
| higher compliment has been paid TO her
| by Mrs. Parr, who, in the April issue of
LonQfeld'S Magazine, publishes as her
own story called Sally" which is an
| unbluShing plagiarism OF Miss Wilkins
| Humble Romance"
n NOI"eSldIl Steamer came III paSU
Sandy Hook the other day flying sig
nal that meant: want Immediate as
| sistance; police authorities" The police
boat Patrol went at once to meet the
| steamer, and the officers found that the
| only mutineer was a little man who
! struck the captain with his fist while they
were in Cuba. The Patrol people Won
dered that the Norwegians had not sum-
moned the fire department.
The other day q law class in New York
| instituted for the education Of women eX-
clusively, finished it's first years course
of study. 1t has been conducted under
the auspices of the University of the City
| of New York. The lecturer was Mrs.
| Emily Kempin, LII. D., graduate of the
! University OF Zurich. OF the ladies who
! have attended the lectures this wear five
are type-writers and stenographers, three
are school teachers, and one is sales
| woman.
Sophia Gunsberg, who is credited with
! being the originator of recent attempts
on the present Cars life, was tried in
November, 1885, together with several
others, she being charged with being the
! chief actor in plot TO murder the Gar.
She was sentenced to be hanged, but the
| sentence was not carried out. She is now
said to be lingering iii a cell in ST. Peters
| burg. 1t has also been stated that she
died in prison, but of course nothing
| definite can be known on this head by
| the outside world.
The late J. B. Grinnell, esteemed in
| Iowa and many another place beside, was
the man to whom Horace Greeley said:
go west, young man, and grow up with
| the country" He was q Young C0ngre-
gational minister in New York State be-
fore he acted on this advice. Such was
! the high regard in which this public Spir-
tied man was held by his fellow citizens
that when he was buried the other day,
| the roads being impossible, his casket
was carried by a squad of old soldiers to
| the cemetery, and the distance was near
ly mile.
Ex-President SeeIye Of Amherst is re-
sponsible for the startling statement that
II matters go on as at present by the end
of the century the women will know
more than the men. This is not refer
ence to the Greek Kalends. The end of the
! century IS drawing uncomfortable near
The worst part of the outlook is that if
DR.. Seelye's prediction comes true it will
take the women the whole of the twenti-
eth century to learn that there is after all
nothing III it to brag gabout.-PhtIGdetp tplaiG
| Times.
The bulk of Barnum's property will go
to Barnum Seeley, his only grandson.
Barnum paid taxes on about 81 200, GOO
| worth of real estate in his home city,
Bridgeport, Conn. When he had, by the
| accumulation of wealth, passed all ques-
ton of financial trouble he used what his
foresight had secured to him for the ben
eft OF the poor people OF Bridgeport. He
established the system OF building houses
and selling them to the working people
on long payments and low rates of inter
est, and hundreds of the pretty resi-
| dences now owned by the working
class in that city were secured through
| Mr.. Barnum's generosity.
"Uncle Daniel McGary," remarks the
Galveston Ne7oS, inherited another trick
than knocking out the bull's-eye from
his ancestors, the famous hunters of Ken.
! lucky. They did not shoot bullets into
| squirrels, but, as the phrase was, they
barked them. The shots went between
the chins of the small animals and the
| limbs on which they stood. and sent the
game to the ground in q series of somer-
saults, with the breath knocked out of
them, without spelling their skins and
| flesh. The old man never mangleS his
game. He is an example of democratic
simplicity in his everyday makeup, but
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