The record-union., 1891-06-06

Sterer hear; they could not wake him,
then nor afterwards. 1t was the last
dream of julius Roy.-McMillan's Mag
aZine.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
Rev. Sam Jones, in an interview, esti-
mates the number of conversions under
his preaching at 10000 to 100000.
The Duke of Argyle's youngest daugh-
ner named Emmott, q quaker, and
wealthy.
The Empress of Austria is as busy as
school girl with her linguistic studies and
as Interesting as land reformer in her
agricultural projects.
Lady Pauncefote, wife of the British
Minister IN Washington, is a great pedes-
trian, and takes her daily ''constitu-
tionaP' regularly before noon.
Judge Schotield of the Court of Claims
IS now eligible for retirement on pay,
and no less than eight applicants for ap-
pointment III his place have filed papers
with the President.
Senator Black burns daughters are ar
dent admirers of thoroughbred horses.
They are always to be seen at the IIexing-
ton races, and are thoroughly accom-
plished in equine lore.
The present Czarina of Russia is said to
be the most popular Empress the nation
ever had. She is loved for her charities.
and is as bright and clever as she is
elegant. She is passionately fond of
dancing.
According to his present plans, EN-
peror William VIII travel as far and as
fast this year as last. He has already de-
cided to visit Norway again. He will go
to Christiania after his return from Eng
land and Scotland in July.
George w. Childs has presented to the
regents of Mount Vernon the proof-sheets
| of the Anee1'icGa Daily AdUertiSe,, dated
September 10th, 1876, containing the fare
well address of Washington, corrected by
| himself. The relic is handsomely framed
in hard cherry.
Gilbert Fraser, who has been con-
| nected with the British Consulate Gen
eral of New York for nearly quarter of
century, has just been promoted to the
rank of Consul for New York, as reward
for his long and meritorious services to
his Government.
Mrs. Mackay's new London house con-
tains two ideal bathrooms, the one in
Pompeiian style, the other Japanese. In
each of them abundant use has been
made of cloisonne enamel. The entrance
halls to the mansion contain some of the
flnest decorative work ever seen in Eng
land.
Agnes Repplier is one Of the few quiet
and careful esSayists among women. She
is nas,ve of Philadelphia, and lives a.
quiet, studious life among her books,
sending frequent and serious articles to
the Philadelphia and New York journals
and to the atlantic Monthly, and deliver
ing occasional lectures during the season.
German papers have recently an
nounced that Thomas A. Edison is at
present engaged in writing a novel. The
iC To int ,ol,
son, the papers also say, will dramatic
his book soon after its publication. This
is probably canard. Edison is too use
ful as scientist to degenerate into a
modern novelist.
Christine Nilsson entertained at dinner
not long ago the two divas, Patti and AL
bani, and the three queens. of song were
attlred in the sumptuous simplicity of the
Nalols or Tudor period. They hummed
a few snatches of songs together, as they
did long ago before titles troubled them,
and were charmlngly sweet to each other,
but they did not appear together in pub
| lie.
Jane Stevens, whose pictures are on ex-
| hibition at the Royal Institute of Paint
ers, spent the best years of her life as a
clerk in one of the departments at Wash
| ington, and now, without a lesson in
drawing, without assistance or encour-
agement from artists, her natural genius.
expressing ideas in bold, original and
| unconventional work, has won interna-
| tional honor.
The late Colonel L. NJ Dayton, a staff
officer of General Sherman, left an estate
valued at over S300,000. Among his
| these: To the Home of the Friendless
and Children's Home in Cincinnati, each
| s., 900; to the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, 5000, and to the Ohio Com
mandery of the Loyal Legion, his
portraits of Generals Sherman, Grant and
| Sheridan.
| Robert T. Lincoln, United States Min
| lister to England, writes to the Worlds
| Fair managers in Chicago. saying that he
| is, of course, glad to do all he can offici-
| ally to help the exposition, but he wants
| the limited facilities at his disposal un-
| derstood The meager clerical force and
| office-room at his disposal renders it inn
possible for the Legation to undertake
| work that should properly be managed
| by an exposition bureau outside.
The failure of Prince Bismarck to ap-
pear at the funeral of the late Count Won
Moltke was generally supposed to be due
/ to the desire of the ex-Chancellor to
avoid meeting the Emperor. To the sur
prise of many people, however, the Ham
burger Ndchrtchten, Bismarck's organ,
announced few days ago that the Prince
sequies of his friend. Invitations were
sent, however, to many officers of the
army.
1t is related of Disraeli, in new book,
that although he was deeply attached to
his wife, some of his most cynical sayings
had reference to marriage in general.
Coming away from a marriage on one oc-
casion, he said 'This is a dismal busi-
ness; it always depresses me. After a
funeral / am cheerful l feel that one has
/ got rid of some one.o Disraeli held the
theory that no man was regular in his at
tendance in the House of Commons until
he was married.
| THE popularity which Hoods Sarsa-
| parilla has gained as spring medicine is
| wonderful. 1t possesses just those ele-
ments of health-giving, blood d-purifying