The record-union., 1891-03-29
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT
Ex-President Cleveland is believed to
have reduced his weight by sixty pounds
within short time.
Il. +. Thompson, of New York City,
mas contributed 100000 to the erection of
three laboratories at Williams College.
George Vanderbilt's castle in North
Carolina will require ten years OF labor
and the expenditure of Ss.0O0,OOO to $lO,-
GOO before it is completed.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria is
having built on the Island of Corfu a
palace that will contain l28 rooms and
Will cost nearly 81, 900, 600.
Governor Hill has been invited by Gov
ernor Norton of Georgia to deliver the
Grafton at the unveiling of the monument
erected in honor of Henry w. Grady at
Atlanta.
President Eliot, Of Harvard, according
to the irreverent Boston Globe, has
Dreathed an academic atmosphere so long
that he has become intellectually as
phyxiated.
Wooton, the famous farm OF. George w.
Chllds, lies few miles from Philadel-
phla, near the little village of Bryn
MaWr. The estate abounds in magnifi-
cent trees, some OF which are more than
300 years old.
When General Alger entered certain
railroad office in Jacksonville the other
day he was asked his name and gave it.
Well" said the agent, Pm glad you're
a General, cause the Florida woods are
full of Colonels."
Miss Yvett Guilbert is the present rage
i'll Paris. She is slim, has green eyes and
auburn hair. She can not sing and does
not try to, but chants. Miss Grilbert is
nd hn sS- Il
ingly mad over her.
General Malone is preparing to build
q town at the mouth OF Cove Creek, in
Tazewe0 County, Virginia. A branch
road will be butt from Tazewel1 Court
house to the point mentioned and char
coal furnaces erected.
Chevalier George d. Epinois, who took
part III the battle of Waterloo and formed
a part of the guard of honor which vel
coined Leopold l. sixteen years later, is
now, at the age of 81, burgomaSter in the
village of Epinois les Rinche.
Mrs. Kyle, wife of the Alliance Senator
from South Dakotaj felt overpowering
confidence during the canvass that her
husband would be elected, and whenever
he talked of declining the nomination.
she insisted that he would yield and win.
Professor Charles A. Young thinks the
most wonderful fact in astronomy is that
the great Lick telescope reveals about
1O0,060,G00 of stars, and that every one Of
them is sun, theoretically and by ana
logy giving light and heat to his plan
etS.o
The Emperor of Japan is great lover
of art, and has just established society
for its promotion. The members include
the most eminent sculptors, painters,
lacquers and weavers Of Japan, all OF
whom receive remuneration from the
Emperor. 'tGl
Sir William Gordon Cumming, whose
connection with an English card scandal
has made him the subject of worldwide
attention, was reported at one time to be
engaged to Miss Letter, of Chicago. But
there seems to have been no foundation
for the rumor. His brother, however,
married an American girl, a Miss Fanny
Eames.
Walt Whitman is making ready Tor
publication what he calls his last book.
1t is collection of both prose and poetry.
He will call it ''Good-by, My Fancy!"
name which, says a critic, is mistake
in consideration Of the fact that there is
in existence volume of verse bearing
the far more apt title or Halo, MY
Fancy"
John Bigelow tells Paris correspond
ent that during the war Prince Jerome
was good friend Of the North. The I'M
perial court leaned toward the South, but
Prince Jerome exerted his influence in
such manner that the Mexican expedi-
ton was abandoned. Mr.. Bigelow says
that 'his was the strongest intellect of the
Bonaparte family" at that time.
Miss Nellie White, who has Just won
the honors of the mathematical exhibi-
ton at the University of Melbourne, is
only Is years old. AL her sisters show a
remarkable talent for collegiate learning,
the elder having taken the degree of NJ
A. last year, and the second having
completed with hOnors four years
course in medicine at the same uni
versity.
Authors are all resorting to the type
writer upon which to do their work, and
any active writer is scarcely without
machine. Mr.. Howells is quite an ex-
pert, and says the click of the keys sets
his thoughts in motion. Mrs. Whitney
also uses the machine skillfully.. Frank
Stockton, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rob-
ert j. Burdette and Margaret Deland all
send IN typewriter manuscripts.
Herr Won Gossler, who retires from the
German Cabinet, has for many years
fought for secular schools and non-inter-
ference by church organizations with
governmental affairs. 1t is a curious CO.
incidence that DR.. Windthorst, who, as
leader of the Ultramontanes, had been his
should die just at the time
when Won Gossler is forced to withdraw
from Office in favor of another Ultramon-
tame, Count Zedlitz Tritzschler.
Lieutenant +. NJ. G. Brown, to whom
West Virginia presented handled
sword last Saturday week, distinguished
himself in the management of the flag
ship Trenton before that vessel was
wrecked in the Samoan hurricane of two
years ago. Lieutenant Brown stood on
the bridge of that vessel during the entire
storm, never leaving his post Of duty for
II moment. When the masts We're en-
tirely stripped of their sails Lieutenant
Brown ordered every man in the rigging,
so that a compact mass OF humanity could |
be used as sails. This novel idea saved
the lives of 400 people.
A Scotch terrier is a regular dead-head