The record-union., 1891-06-27
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT

PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
At the circus in Boston last week they
! were selling the Life OF p. T. Barnum
/ up to Date" AT least q placard so an
| noUnced.
a. j. Drexel heads the list of Philadel-
! phia rich men with S25.000,000. The city
! has 160 millionaires whose total holdings
| tootup over S400000,000.
Oscar Wilde recently startled society
! by dancing into a private reception at
1 tired in a long brown coat, fantasticaIly
/ fashioned, heliotrOpe necl<tie and yell
! low carnations in his buttonhoIe.
In his youthful days Senator German
| was left-ielder of the National Baseball
/ Club OF Washington, with an unerring
/ eye for flies. Nowadays he watches with
more interest for Presidential bees.
/ The condition cf Prince George, second
son of the Car, according to late reports.
/ is extremely discouraging. Both lungs are
now said TO be diseased. The Young
mans return to st. Petersburg has been
! postponed indefinitely.
A. NJ. Henry owns the farm upon
! which the first battle of Bull Run was
! fought; and owned it at the time of the
/ tight. lie was away from home, but his
! mother was killed in her bed by a Shell
! from a Federal battery.
! Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
! been strongly recommended to the Pres
| ident by various wOmen's ORGANIZATIONS
! for place on the new National Immi-
! grafton Board; and it is thought that the
| suggestion will be carefully considered.
The elegant villa at Albany which
| Emmet gave to his wife at the time Of
their separation year ago was valued at
/ Sl50,O00; and it is said that he also pre-
sented her with a like amount in bonds.
The house was curiously designed within
and contained some odd antiquities.
Emin's announcement that he never
! expects to see Europe again will not sur
prise his friends. He seemed so con-
tented with his lot, years ago, as Gov
ernor of the Equatorial Provinces, that
the Stanley rescue expedition appeared
not only unnecessary but ridiculous.
The Queen of Spain's reasons for re-
I tarding the completion Of the palace
which is being built at San Sebastian has
/ at last been divulged. The palace is built
! privately by the Queen, and it is in order
/ to prevent Overdrawing her bank account
/ that she has determined to have the build
/ ing finished only in the course of next
/ year, when she will be able to paw the
architects
/ Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe completed
her S0th year last Sunday week. There
/ was no special observance of the dav. al
! though HoughtOn, Alifiiln d Co. sent her
bouquet, as they have been in the habit
( of doing for years. Although in mental
/ power Mrs. Stowe is again child. she is
/ in excellent health physically, and almost
/ daily takes walk of nearly a mile to see
! her sister. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker,
| who also lives in Hartford.
The death is reported in the foreign
4 papers OF Antonina Demitriiewna Blu
dow, the little ugly Countess" !" who was
( the most influential maid-of-honor to the
/ wife of Car Alexander IL. She was the
/ only unmarried daughter of Count Blu
/ dow, the ambassador of Nicholas [. to
! England, and his most trusty counselor.
/ She was famous for her keen intellect and
sharp tongue. She, in combination with
her tather-confessor, Baschanow, exer-
/ cised great influence through the EN-
/ press upon Alexander H., and was much
| beloved by the Moscow Nationalists.
To the great regret Of the friends of the
/ late DR.. Schliemann, many of the inter
estlng relics dug up by the great explorer
in Troy have been stolen and despoiled
by the miserable inhabitants of Asia
Minor. Turks and ATabians use the
valuable stones to build their huts. After
SchHemann's death man was employed
TO guard the ruins. His salary was dis
continued recently, however, and the
watchman ceased to guard the excava-
| tons. The "StambouF' Of Constanti-
nOple calls upon all scientific societies of
the lconoclasm and vandalism Of the
semi -barbarous inhabitants" and to con
tInue the work OF the great Schliemann.
Coughs old home and library are to be
sold, his wife's death making necessary
distribution of the property under the
viii. Although this famous temperance
lecturer disclaimed the title Of a man of
letters, he had great love for good books.
and gathered during his lifetime large
collection. The Boston AdUe1tiSer saws:
His early trade as a bookbinder gave
him an expert knowledge, and his
library shows the indulgence of
much taste and no little expense in
special bindings. He was also an enthu-
siast IN the extension of books by the
insertion OF extra illustrations, auto
graphs and similar legitimate mat
ter, and his leisure hours Were
largely devoted to the prepara-
tion of this class for work TO the binder.
He was an expert in the art Of 'inlaying,'
a process by which pages Of varying size
are set into sheets of uniform size for
symmetrical binding.'
If you have made up your mind to buy
Hoods Sarsaparilla do not be induced to
take any other. Hoods Sarsaparilla is a
peculiar medicine, possessing, by virtue
of its peculiar combination, proportion
and preparation, curative power superior
to any other article Of the Kind.