The morning call., 1891-11-07
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Hall Game, the English novelist, looks

Hall Caine the English novelist, looks
just like portrait of Shakespeare
The Nizam of Hyderabad spends sl0,00o,-
600 year. The fact that lie has 800 wives
accounts for his extravaganza.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr did her first work as
an author after yellow fever had bereaved
her of her husband and three sons in Calves
ton, in 1857.
Baron Arthur Rothschild, a nephew of the
head OF the great financial house, Is serving
mis- twelve months in the French army as
private soldier.
E. Werner, the German novelist, trans
lations Of whose stories are so popular in
this country, is Elizabeth Bur-tenbinder.
She is spinster, aud lives in Berlin.
George Gould is arranging for private
hunting grounds where he can have his
game whenever he wants it. He has re-
stocked his Catskill range with deer and
elk.
General McClellanis spoken of yet among
the growing numbers of New Workers who
love misunderstanding as the beau ideal of
cavalier. General Sherman was nervous
rider.
Ibsen, the author is becoming giddy in
his old age. He takes in theater or an
opera every evening at Christiana. Formerly
it was his habit to go to bed regularly at
o'clock.
Commodore Perry's marble counterfeit In
Cleveland, having acquired such heavy
coating of smoke ard SCOT as to render it
unsghtly, was recently scrubbed, but with
the effect Of making it look worse than ever.
Queen Victoria has a private telegraph
wire running from Balmoral Castle to Lon
don, and she is in almost hourly communi-
cation with Lord Salisbury, from whom, in
addition to his dispatches, she hears daily
by mail.
Carruthers, Scotch editor looked SO
much like Thackeray that upon one occa-
sion when Carruthers called upon Thack-
cray the maid who met him at the door
laughed in his face, because she thought her
master, in fit of absent mindedness, had
come home and asked for himself.
The late William Henry Smith, the Brit
lsh Parliamentary leader, was model land
lord. He greatly improved the landed
property he acquired In his last years, and
was so generous to his tenants that the
acquisition of an estate by him was matter
for hearty congratulation to all connected
with it.
Major William Dickey, known IN Aroos-
took County as The Duke of Kent" is one
| OF the most picturesque figures among the
| pioneers and politicians of Maine. lie is
about eighty years of age, but straight as an
arrow and very active in the cause Of the
| people OF his district. whom he has often
| ably represented in the State Legislature.
Edmund Yates says that lie has often
| wondered at the extraordinary manner in
which Mr.. Parnell was able TO preserve the
mystery attaching to every portion of his
| life, and especially to his movements.
Brighton, where the Irish leader passed so
much of his time, is provincial place, filed
with inquisitive people. but, although Mr..
! Parnell was about among Shem for many
months, l doubt" says Mr.. Yates. whether
| the most curious had any track Of his
doings; and certainly myself. though con-
| stantly In the frequented parts Of the town
and travelling very frequently up and down
the line, had never caught the slightest
| glimpse Of him."