The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-05
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT,

Thirty years ago Brigadier- General John
| X. Brooke was young lawyer in Central
| Pennsylvania.
Ex-Confederates are raising funds for a
monument at Helena, Ark, to General
Patrick Cleburne.
William II. English, candidate for the
| Nlce-Presidency in 1880, is now writing q
history of Indiana.
Jules Verne is now handsome man of
90, with head and beard quite gray and with
eyes which sparkle with all the fire of 90
Phillips Academy, at Uxeter, Mass, fol-
lows Harvard's steps and will have a coiored
| class orator, Henry c. Milton of Philadel-
phia.
Queen Amele of Portugal is now almost
restored TO health. She is the prettiest and
most fascinating Of the sovereign ladies of
| Europe.
The White House children are not so old
as they are usually thought to be. 'Baby
! McKee" is years old and his sister Mary
is only ..
Joseph Fl. Choate, Robert G. Ingersoll
and Ben Butler are reported to make from
$4,000 to $4,000 year each from their
law practice.
A handsome tablet in memory Of Captain
L. Z. Hentlg, who was killed in fight with
| Apaches in 1881, has been erected in the
chapel at Fort LeaYenworth.
The Shah of Persia has a passion for pho
Biography, and wherever he goes is accom-
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| camera always ready.
Joaquin NIiller's handwriting looks like
| a free-tor-all tight of black cats. An ex-
| tended description of it seems to warrant
| some such CONCLUSION, to say the least.
Rochefort has fought twenty-three duels
| during his career as pamphleteer and edi-
| tor, having been wounded in seven of them
and escaped unhurt in the remaining sixteen.
| Mrs. j. G. Blaine Jr. will halt in her prep
! aratlonS Tor the stage to a certain extent
and devote good deal of time during the
next five months 10 writing for the news
| papers.
General Booth, it is reported, should his
| scheme for the betterment OF the wretch
! edly poor of Great Britain be successful
! will endeayor to repeat its operation in this
! country.
Soulful decorations of a Christmas tree
which Lillian Russell found in her dressing
| room at the Casino In New 1ork were silk
garter, a porous plaster and some corn
piasters.
Professor Charles Lee Smith. Ph.D., of
John Hopkins University, has been elected
to the new chair of history and political
science at the William Jewell College. Lib
erty, Mo.
The election of Senator Dubois of Iowa
gives Yale six Senators. The others are:
EVarts, Dawes, Gibson, Wacott and Hig-
gins: u ale IS hardly yearnlng for new ap-
portionment
1t was expected that Mrs. Navarro MARY
Anderson would return to New York this
month, but she had decided TO remain in
England. Her husband is now on his way
to this country.
A Presidents expenses amount in four
years to about $50 600. His income for the
same period being 500, OOO, it is not dificult
TO see that he has an excellent chance to
start bank account.
According to Rudyard Kipling, Lady Duff
FERNS work in India has done more, and
promises more, in the solution of the trouble
some Eastern Empire problem than all mas
cuiue suggestions and efforts.
Eugene Higgins, son of the late E. S.
Higgins, says the New York Epoch, is said
to be the wealtniesI unmarried man in this
city. lie is IN the thirties, and is worth be-
tween twelve and fifteen million dollars.
Mrs. Henry ii. Stanley, who always occu-
pies box, attracts as much attention as her
distinguished husband. But think of the
wifely devotion that can listen TO the same
lecture night after night for a whole season
Vice-President Proctor of the Singer Sew
| ing-machlne Company is reported to be
! worth SIS, 600, 900. He shared the inventors
| poverty with him and afterward married his
| daughter. Singers original capital was $50,
! which grew to S30,000,0O0.
Arehduchess Maria Dorothea is one of
| the beauties of the Austrian impe-
rial family. She is above medium height,
! with dark hair aud eyes and fresh COM
! plexion. She is noted for her charities and
| for her skill in piano-Dlaying.
President Ives. the former young Napo-
| leon Of finance, is living quietly in New
| York and deVoting his attention to the ac-
| curing of another fortune. he is the same
well-dressed, suaye and Self-couident char
| acter as he was before his fall.
Rosalie Montmasson, who was married
years ago to Prime Minister Crispi of Italy
but with some defect of ceremonial which
afterward permitted her reputation, is
about to publish her memoirs, which are eX-
pected to make an enormous sensation in
Italy.
Miss Nelly Kelly of the Ohio State Jour-
nal is a regular "hTst-wire" operator of the
| Associated Press at the same salary that is
paid to tirst-wlre men. She takes 5000
words in night, and at 2:30 o'clock in the
morning she goes home alone and unmo.
lesLed.
Mr.. T. z. Garrett, the st. Louis critic and
author, who is one of Mrs. Navarro's MARY
Anderson's) correspondents, says: There
is no doubt of her returning to the stage.
She can never be happy in domestic life
unless she directs her energy entirely to
society. She will be on the stage in little
! while"
WIN Carleton. whose poems have done so
much to right the wrongs of domestic and
! social Life, as did those of Whittier and
Lowell 10 right the political wrongs of an
earlier generation, is nesting with great sue
| cess upon the lecture platform, by weaving
his most popular poems with bits of advice
| and counsel.
The two Russian Grand Dukes who are
coming to America are Nicolas Alexandra
| WITCH CzarOwitZ and hereditary Grand Duke.
| and his brother, George Alexandrovitch,
| Grand Duke of the empire. The former is
a Colonel in several Russian. Austrian and
| Prussian regiments. He is % years old and
| his brother is 20.
Sitting Bull had three wives, two of which
| SURVIVE him. Tie Qame OF one of than IL
! The-O ne-That- Had F0ur-Ro bes. The other
| seems TO have distinguished herself by doing
| more than a wife's share toward keeping
the name of the Bull family upon the Sioux
census roll, and is called The One That
| Had Twins Twice.
The death of General Terry at the age of
! GO has brought out the fact that nearly all
! OF the great Generals of the war have died
when between the ages of "a and 60 years
! Among them are mentioned Grant, Sheridan,
| Thomas, Logan, Halleck, Mcclellan
| Hooker, Meade, Burnside, Curtis, Blair, and
/ others of lesser mite