The record-union., 1891-02-01
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

Emile lola has been paid $4,000 for the
right to publish his Money in an even
ing paper.
It is reported from Turin that Louis
Kossuth is in dire pecuniary straits. He
is 81 years old.
John G.. Whittier's birthday gifts in
cluded barrel of pitch-pine kindlings
from the Whittier Colored School at Tus-
caloosa, Ala.
William Thaw, who died year ago
in Plttsburg, was thought to be worth
about S9,000,000. His estate cleans up
S20,000,000.
The baptism of the infant son of En-
peror William has been fixed for the 10Th
inst. The King and Queen of Italy will
be the child's sponsors.
Victor Zambelli an Austrian, was the
oldest soldier in Europe until recently.
He died little while ago, after having
been in service for eighty -four years.
James P. Scott, son of Thomas A. Scott,
late President of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, proposes, by way of experiment,
to plant 1000 acres of rice near kissim-
NEE, Fla.
Two neices of Sitting Bull live in
Washington. One is the wife of mu-
latto barber named George Leonard. She
speaks with much agitation about the
o1tTdSeS on nef people.
Mr.. Ballet, Superintendent of Public
Schools at Springfield, who was invited
to take the SUPPLEMENTARY of the pub
lie schools of Philadelphia at salary of
5000, has declined the offer.
The woman mentioned in a dispatch
from Pine Ridge Agency as having
adopted the Indian girl baby found on the
Wounded Knee battlefield three days
after the battle, is Mrs. Allison Nailor of
Washington, d. G.
Edwin B. Winans, who is the first
Democratic Governor that Michigan has
had in thirty years, is a conservative,
bald-headed old farmer, with neatly
trimmed beard and kindly eyes beaming
out of gold spectacles.
Mr.. SpurgeOn gives but little time to
the preparation of his sermons. He sits
in his study couple of hours with his
face buried in his hands, then he goes to
his desk, jots down few headlines, and
is ready for the pulpit.
Senator Sawyer is said to have reduced
his weight sixty-five pounds in six
months by eating four or five times a
day-aS often as he desires to eat, in fact
but taking as little food as possible to as
suage the pangs of hunger. He also
| avoids fluids.
Although Mr.. Justice Brown and his
wife have no children of their own, they
are fond of young people, for whom their
home in Detroit was famous head
quarters. It is believed that their house
in Washington will be famous resort
for such society.
General Joe Shelby, the Confederate
cavalry leader, appeared in st. Louis the
other day, and scores of his old comrades
in arms flocked to his hotel to greet him.
He is entirely out of politics, and is liv-
inp ouietly on his farm reaDpearinp Int
rarely in the cities.
Unless DR.. Bors, a Hungarian physi-
| clan, is over-sanguine about his diph-
| liberia discovery, his name may yet be-
come almost as famous as DR.. Koch's. 1t
| is reported that during recent epidemic
of this disease only q per cent. of his pa
| tients died, while in other cases of prac-
ticing physicians the mortality reached
| 70 per cent.
Theodore Weld, famous as an anti
slavery lecturer, is lightweight years old,
but remarkably vigorous for one of his
age. Mr.. Weld closely resembles the
poet Bryant in looks, although Mr..
| Yields eyes are always uplifted, while in
the portraits of the poet the eyes are
downcast. His snow-white hair and
beard, which he wears very long, give
him patriarchal appearance.
Baron Hirsch is the greatest philanthro-
pist in Europe. He has established spe-
cial office with corps of clerks for the
management of his plans. He has given
s., OO0, 900 for instruction in Galicia. He
has offered Sl0,000,000 for the public
schools of Russia on condition that no
distinction shall be made in the applica-
| ton of the fund as to race or religion.
| The offer was declined. He now proposes
to transport to the River Platte half a
| million of Russian Jews.