The morning call., 1891-07-05
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Duke of Fife is gradually disposing
at private sale of all his agricultural prop
erty in Scotland.
People in Paris give Nine. Carnot the dis
tinction of setting the fashions in dress, as
Eugene did in empire days.
Mr.. John r. Mclean of the Cincinnati
Enquirer is en- route TO Bar HarbOr, where
he will spend the summer with his family.
Rev. Mr.. Dawson, curate OF All Hallows,
London, is the latestof the English clergy to
be received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Mr.. Woodcock, President of the Coventry
Bicycle Works. who recently died. left an
estate of S1,500,0O0. Thus the wheel goes
round
Professor Arnold Guyot of the Miami
tOho) University has been appointed pro-
feSsor of French in the Yale Scientific
School.
seat posted for sale in the New York
Stock Exchange is that of Cyrus w. Field
Jr., who tackled the street five years ago,
fresh from college.
Patti is at her castle in Wales preparatory
to going off OIL another professional tour.
The story now goes that, inst cad of dying
her hair, she has had it cut short and wears
a wig.
daughter of Miss Braddon. the novelist,
Is soon to wed an Oxford don. She does not
inherit her mothers literary tastes. but is
conceded beauty and bright GIRL" as
English maidens 90.
A Polish Countess has been graduated
from the Geneva University full-fledged
doctor. What makes her case more than
commonly interesting Is that she intends to
treat the poor Of her own country gratui-
tously.
The new Bishop of York. Rev. DR.. Mac
lagan. is q Scotchman, and in early life was
lieutenant in the Indian army. He is a
graduate of st. Peters College, Oxford.
His wife is a daughter of the late Viscount
Darlington.
George Gould has log-cabin in the Cat
skills, where he Tolls around during the
summer, studying how he can become a
richer man than his father He is chip of
the old block, with an extra hard knot
thrown inn. Y. Press.
1t is claimed by old people in Kingston,
Ontario that Sir John A. Macdonald de-
said to have been tall, energetic and hos
pitable Highland lady, quick mt repartee
and at grasping situations.
De Balzac wasted untold gold upon gaudy
jewelry, useless knck-knacks and fantastic
''curios," which, during his frequent par
oxySms of impecuniosity, he resold to sharp
witted dealers at ruinous losS-freQuently
for less than hundredth part of their or
iginal co st
Emperor William of Germany has com =
mlssioned the celebrated artist Anton Won
Werner to paint picture representing the
LiipciOt, tde GeTilau ITlnceS anu the army
officers in the act of congratulating the late
Count Won Moltke upon the completion OF
his ninetieth birthday.
Bishop French of England, who died re-
Gently in Arabia, was known as "that many
tongued man Of Lahore" for he could
preach in English, Persian, Hindustani,
Pushto, Hindei. Tamil and Punjabi. and
was an eminent scholar in Hebrew, Arabic,
Syriac, Greek and Latin.
Baron Alfred Rothschild recently enter
tanned number of distinguished people at
most unique private concert, at which
AdeliDa Patti. Van Dyck, the fashionable
tenor, Maurel and Lassalle. Edouard de
Reszke. Wolff, the violinist, and Holman,
the 'cellst, contributed to the fund of en-
joyment 1t is estimated that the artists
services alone cost the Baron over 5000 for
the evenings ente rtainment