The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-01-25

anu MdrlNa halllOn, In6y were IN lie.
In immortality they are the Edwin and
Emma of Mallet's pathetic ballad; and
rustic Yorkshire lovers still find inspira-
ton to endless fidelity beside these graves
in the little church-yard of dead old
Bowes. EDGAR L. WAKEMAN.
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
Mime. Bernhardt has been attacked by
the grippe.
{. Governor Russell, Of Massachusetts, is
just 81 years of age.
King Alexander of Servia is now a
strong, healthy boy of IA, and has deyel-
oped mental powers of great promise.
DIR. Schliemann has left the Kaiser Will
helm several golden bracelets and hair
pins that were unearthed during his eX-
cavations.
George William Curtis, invited to adj
dress the South Carolina State Press AS
ISOLATION April next, is obliged to decline
the invitation.
Henry Labouchere declares that Amer
lean women do not, as a rule, dress well;
they only dress extensively. and are the
slaves Of milliners.
Mr.. Stanley in his lectures never
speaks of "niggers" or 'negroes.'' He
invariably classes the people as white
men" and ''black men,
Mrs. Swan, the mother-in-law of Gov
ernor Russell, has given her former resi-
dence in Kenn chunk, Me-, to the Unita-
rian parish at that place.
The King of Italy has accepted the
Presidency of the Christopher Columbus
Committee, which is arranging the cele-
bratlon of the fourth centenary of the dis
covery of America.
Professor Young, Princeton's astron-
omer, has been awarded the Jansen
prize for 1890 by the French Academy of
Sciences, in recognition of his brilliant
discoveries in spectrology.
A granite monument for Emma Abbott
is being constructed at Quincy. 1t is to
cost $4,000, and will be placed over the
remains of the singer and her husband in
the family lot at Gloucester.
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Goelet
are endeavoring to outrival Ward Nc
Allister's charity bali in the elaborate ar
engagements for the Southern Assembly
Ball, to be held in New York on the 9th
The photographs representing the Prin-
cess Marguerite de Charities with the Due
| d'Orleans have been withdrawn from the
Paris shop windows, at the desire of her
family, as she is no longer the fiance of
the Due.
| The friends of President Arthur, who
raised a monument over his grave at AL
| bany, have surplus fund of S25, 900,
which they intend to expend in the cree
| ton of a statue of the eX-President in New
| York City.
Judge William P. Lyon, of the Wiscon-
sin Supreme Court, who will become
! Chief Justice on the retirement of Judge
Cole a few weeks hence, has held his pres
ent office twenty years. He is native of
Columbia county, n. Y, and won briga-
dier's stars in the volunteer army during
the civil war.
The library of 1000 books which the
late DIR. Henry Dexter, editor of the Con-
gTegdti0nalist, left Yale University, ex-
hausts the history of the Puritans of New
England. DR.. Dexter also left valuable
manuscripts treating of the Puritans,
which Professor f. B. Dexter of Yale will
edit and publish.
| Judge Frank Doster, possible candi-
date for United States Senator in Kansas,
served in an Indiana cavalry regiment
during the war. He has pale, beardless
face with marked and distinctive fea-
lures, something like Robespierre's. He
believes in no God, and is strongly in
clined to Socialism.
| The richest man in Prussia, according
to the tax estimate recently laid before
the PruSSian Landtag, is Herr Krupp, "a
citizen of the District of Dusseldorf"
Herr Krupp, who is none other than the
owner of the great cannon factories, pays
an annual tax OF 10000 marks, or almost
SIS 900, ON an estimated income of 6. OOO.-
900 marks. He is the only representative
in the tax class numbered lbs.
The wife of Judge III. b. Brown, re-
Gently appointed from Michigan to a seat
on the Supreme Court is said to be most
beautiful woman of many accomplish
ments. Mrs. Brown is related distantly
to the poet Whittier, and more nearly to
| the Whittiers of Saginaw, as well as sew
nt.o1 nth
gan, including that of ex-senator and
| President of the Worlds Fair Palmer
| On their return from the vacation the
students of Cornell University found at
the entrance to the College Grounds a
snow bust of Professor Corson. 1t was
over eight feet high, and was an excellent
| likeness. 1t was the work of Professor
| H. ID. Williams and Mr.. Willis, of the
department OF industrial art. Two years
ago Professor Williams constructed a
similar bust of Shakespeare.
Edison, the electrician, has more the
look OF country grocer than a man of
science, and he can cheerfully submit to
be bothered by lot of children without
showing any annoyance at having his
mind distracted from deeper studies.
And ne is just as happy patching up the
ark as he is when trying to make the tel
ephone self-recording machine.
This instance of the late General Dew
ems bravery is cited. AT the crossing of
the Rappahannock, in the battle of Fred
ericksburg, his brigade led the way over
the lower bridge, and when the retreat
was ordered he asked that he and his men
might be the last to return. General
Franklin, to whom the request was pre-
ferred, turned and said to General w. +,
Smith: "Well, Badly, there doesn't APP
pear to be anybody else asking for that
honor, so We'll let Devens wait till the
last if he wants to-"
Bishop Newman is about to take a
big swing around the circle of the South
ern and Western circuit. He will
signalize the celebration of the quar-
ter-centennial Methodist jubilee in
New Orleans by an Grafton on 1.-THE
Future of the Negro Race After that
he Will visit nine conferences in the West
and Southwest. 1t was in 1864 that DIR.
Newman was first sent to New Orleans
by Bishop Scott, at the request of Presi-
dent Lincoln, to take charge of the Meth
odist churches in that region.
Queen Victoria has five maids to assist
at her toilet-viz: three dressers and two
wardrobe women. We are told also by
high authority that the senior dresser,
who has been many years with her ma
jesty, is especially charged with the task
of conveying orders tosdifferent trades
people-jewelers, drapers and dressmak-
ers; one dresser and one wardrobe wo-
man are in constant attendance on the
Queen, taking alternate days. All this
when the royal lady is well and in good
spirits. At other times the maids are
made to retire to the lower apartments
and told to stay there until called for.
Mrs. Rider Haggard accompanies her
husband to this country, and will stay in
his company during the time that he may
devote to the study of Mexican archaoi-
ogy. Mr.. Haggard, as stated, is tall
man, probably over six feet high, some
what loosely put together, with SLIGHT