The record-union., 1891-05-14
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT

ID. NJ. Hart, one of ex-senator Evarts'
private secretaries, is a negro. He is a
graduate OF Harvard College, and young
lawyer of more than average ability.
Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, after long
period Of retirement, is occasionally seen
upon the streets of New York again, clad
in simple black. Mrs. Conkling is about
sixty years of age.
Donna Isidora Cousino, in Chile, is
supposed to be the richest woman in the
world. Her monthly income is SS0,000
She Is stately widow of 80 years, and
famous horsewoman.
Mrs. Koch, the wife of the famous
German specialist, has the entire charge
OF her husbands immense correspond
ence, and performs her duties as secre-
tary very successfully.
Lady Sidney Waterlow, wife of the dis
tinguished baronet who was once Lord
Mayor of London, and is the senior part
ner in the great paper firm, IS Napa,
Cal, girl, whose maiden name was Mar
garet Hamilton.
Hon. John Lathrop, member of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court, has laid
aside the gown for time and is making
tour of the Southern battle-fields upon
which he fought as a Captain of the
Thirty-fifth Massachusetts.
Dom Pedro is no less patriotic because
his countrymen deposed him. He is
quoted as saying, recently, that their ex-
pertinent at self-goyernment will be a
success and that Brazil will hold her
place among nations"
A fund TO provide for General Banks in
his old age willTbe collected in Massachu-
sets, the movement having been started
by Senators Hoar and Dawes, and having
the support of two Democratic members
of Congress, Messrs. O'Neil and Andrew.
Rev. Francis Bellamy, a brother of
Looking Backward" Bellamy, has re-
signed his Boston pastorate to take an
editorial position upon the Youths Com
pd7liO8. He informed his congregation
that he would give place to 'fresher
man.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, the best
looking of the noted woman-suffragists
of America, is descended from Jonathan
Edwards, and consequently one of the
choicest relics she possesses is a yellow
silk gown that was worn by Aaron Burr's
mother, the great divine's daughter.
Lady Jeune, whose husband, Sir Fran
els Jeune, has recently been knighted,
and made a Judge in the English High
Court of Justice, is said to be the only
woman in London who has succeeded,
for some years, in holding salon, Lady
Jeune is deeply interested in work among
the poor.
A party OF BOwdOln College students
will start for the coast of Labrador some
time in June, and, under the direction of
Professor Leslie A. Lee, will spend the
summer months in exploring region
practically unknown, and in gathering
materials of some value to the geographer,
the geologist and the ethnologlst.
Beaconsfield and Byron both died on
the same day Of the year, April 18th; and
while primroses were worn or displayed
extensively upon that anniversary this
year in England, a large wreath was
placed by some one at the foot of the
statue of "Childe Harold's' author in
Hamilton Gardens, London, and passers-
by noticed the figure of a young lady sit
ting pensively beside it.
Miss Jean Gordon, of Cincinnati, upon
whom will be conferred q degree at the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, has
earned the highest average ever attained
by any womansgraduate from that insti-
tuition. Out of the l84 graduates in the
class of this year, only six obtained the
highest rating of distinguished" Miss
Gordon was one Of the six. She was the
only woman in her class, and had to con-
tend with bright young men.
Jim Keene, says the Continent, is seen
daily in Wall street, and, if report be
true, is taking once more very big
share in the operations of the market
at all times, he has become doubly so
within the last few years aud, except his
brokers and a handful of intimates. few
people see or talk to him. Unlike many
Wall street men, Mr.. keene has never
courted newspaper publicity, and his
dislike of being interviewed has, it is
said, increased of late.