The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT,

General Schofeld will soon settle down In
ashington in a coy little home.
General Hastings is a prominent figure at
Atlantic City, but he never talks politics.
The King of Sweden has presented the
town of New Sweden, Me-, with fine
library.
William Hanson of Stafford. England Il
half way through his one hundred and eley-
enth year.
Gladstone has fondness for having Long
fellow read aloud to him, now that he can't
read Homer.
Pope Leo XIII. during the summer has
his bed moved out into the large, cool apart
ment which he uses as study and he dimes
there. too.
Munkacsy's next great picture will he
Christ and His Disciples" work upon
which he is now engaged and which will
find its resting place in the Berlin National
Gallery.
The trouble among the ladies of the Ma
tional Society OF the Daughters of the Amer.
lean Revolution has resulted in the removal
of Mrs. Flora Adams Darling. the authoress.
from the presidency.
President Carnot will not accept the pro-
posed invitation to visit London if it is ex-
tended. 1t is feared that too complicated a
political Significance might attach to his
visit so soon after that of Emperor William.
Mrs. John a. Logan tells Washington
Interviewer that 1t seems to her that Ameri-
cans now abroad eviuce far more intelligent
patriotism and less toadyism than did their
fellow-countrymen who made foreign tours
a few years ago.
The yexatious indispositon of the tenor
singer Jean dc ReSZke in London n fort
night ago was preceded by stormy scenes
with his costumer and another member of
the opera company. Inflammation of the
vocal cords resulted.
Edmund Blanc, whose horse CLAIMANT won
the Grand Prix at Longehamps. is the son
of NJ. Blanc who instituted the Monaco
gambling tables and made fortune there
from. He owns one of the most important
racing studs in France.
The Princess de Sagan, at the famous
fancy dress ball given by the Princess de
Leon III Paris, appeared as the Empress of
Japan She was attired in robes of white
satin embroidered with large butterflies in
cOlored silks ana beads.
The grave of Barbara Freitchie in the
German Reformed Church Cemetery near
Frederick, Md, is marked simply with n
headstone bearing ner name, age ana 1862"
There is tangle of briarS and creeping
vines running wild over the mound.
Old Lady Aylesbury is one of the most
extraordinary figures in London society.
She is nearly so and wears wig of cork
screw curls. She is noted as the possessor
of a sharp tongue, and her language is at all
times picturesque and vigorous.
The German Emperor, according to Mr..
Labouchere, looks better on horseback than
on foot, 'for when he is walking in a court
function he assumes a solemn strut, which
he has, suppose, been told is imperial, but
which. to my thinking, rartakes aore of a
barn-doo chanticleer than of an Emperor"
Among the attractive married women at
Narragansett Pier is Mrs. William Shep-
ard (nee Celtic Gwynne, from Cette, France.
where she was Dorn), the sister of Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt and OF Mrs. William
Fearing Gill. Mrs. Shepard Is a big bru-
Dette, with handsome eyes and hair ia
always handsomely gowned and wears
magnificent jewels, which set off her radi-
ant coloring.