The morning call., 1891-10-02
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The composing stick ed by Benjamin
Franklin when 40 work in a London print
ing Office is now owned by an EDglishman.
Edward Everett Hale is trying to get Bos-
ton TO honor Oliver Cromwell by hanging
the Puritan soldiers portrait in the Old
South Church.
General Joseph B. Carr, ex-Secretary of
State of New York, is at ST. Luke's H jspi-
tai in that city undergoing treatment for
eancerous affection.
While in Australia recently Bernhard
and her company recently went out sixty
miles into the bush. and slept in tents, for
the fun of the thing.
Senator Calvin S. Brice and Mrs. Brice
have left Paris, where they were met by
their daughter, Miss Helen Brice, who has
been for year a French convent.
The late John H. B. Latrobs of Baltimore
learned to use a typewriter after he reached
the age Of so. He was a man of great in-
dustry, and had carefully Developed the art
of utilizing what he called scraps" of time.
The wife of Allen q. Thurman, now up
ward OF 50 years old, has been confined to
her bed by illness for nearly fortnight
but until this attack had shown few signs
Of dccrepitude.
Fiau!ein Johanna Marstick, the cleverest
bull-6ghter of the day, is described as a
young woman of rare blonde beauty. At a
beauty show held in Lisbon last fall she car
ried off the palm.
Robert II. Humphrey, who died in st.
Louis few days ago, had the curious dis
tinction If being the man who furnished the
rope with which GIileau, the assassin of
Garfield, was hanged.
Charles Meissonier. son of the dece ased
painter, has announced his intention to pre-
sent his fathers studio, together with its en-
tire contents, to the French Government, to
form the nucleus Of Meissonier museum.
Mrs Mary Bryan, editor Of the Munro
Library, owns a small plantation down in
Georgia. and baled the first cotton this year
in her State, Mrs. Bryan, who is also known
as the automatic novel writer" gets out a
fresh romance in serial form every six
weeks.
The German Empress has formed a
League for the Preservation of Good Hab-
It's" among the Prussian ladies. The mem
beIs bind themselves to discourage luxury,
to wear simple dresses and to practice econ
omy i'll the household.
Though overwhelmed with his CORE
spOndence and literary work, Mr. Gladstone
does not employ sten0grapher. His sec
retaries are all lObghand writers. and much
of his muititudinOus correspondence he an
swers with his own pen.
Norwegian papers have announced the en-
gagement of DR.. Sigurd Ibsen, the son Of
the author. and Mile. Bergliot Bjoernson,
the eldest daughter of the Norwegian poet
and politician. The young woman, who
possesses great musical talent, is at present
a pupil OF Nine. Marchesi, In Paris. She is
said TO be beautiful and clever.
Ever since he went into business as boy,
John |. Blair, the millionaire railroad mag
nate, has made it practice to jot down in
a SOte-bOnk, carried fol- the purpose, brief
resume Of what he has been doing every
hour of the day. His Totes are concise, but
by their aid he can tell to a minute what
he was doing at almost any period OF his
life.
The Countess of Clancarty, ex-Lady Dun
10 and nee Belle Billion. is horrilying Eng
fish society by turning up her pretty nose