The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-20
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.


The German Emperor has six children
living-One dead.
Freddie Gebhard spent the season with
his sister, Mrs. Nelson, at Lenox.
An Italian lady in Milan named Mazzni
Is announced as candidate for the Italian
Parliament.
Emma Abbott used TO have her shoes
fitted over three pairs of stockings in order
to make quick changes in her footwear.
Mr.. Parnell never SWore under any provo
cation, and boosted that 10 one of his
speeches contained any violent expression.
His friends in the Germanic Club of
Chicago presented 10 Theodore Thomas the
other night baton studded with diamonds.
General Wade Hampton's ruddy face
casts doubt on the report that he is begin
ming to show the signs of physical break
ing up.
Count August Bismarck, son of the ex-
Premier, will drive public coach next sea-
son out Of Baden Baden, his home, into the
Black Forest.
Services commemorative OF Indiana's
War Governor" the late Oliver L. Nor
ton, were held in Methodist church in In
dianapolis recently.
Senator Sherman, in spite of the promi-
nence OF Foraker and his boom, does not at
present appear TO be indulging in any I'M
necessary excitement.
According to foreign papers the Queen
Regent of the Netherlands will visit Berlin
next spring. Great preparations will be
made to receive the royal guest.
General Lew Wallace rises as early as 6
o'clock In the morning. He takes some very
slight reireshment, gets into the saddle and
rides couple of hours before breakfast.
Miss Anna Dickinson is broken in health
and certainly not more reposeful in mind.
She is now resting at her home, and it is
more than likely that she will not again APP
pear In public
Paul Thorndyke of Boston, to whom Miss
Rachel Sherman is engaged to be married,
is the son of the late DR.. William Thorn
dyke Of Milwaukee, where the bridegroom
elect still has brother living.
NJ Blouet, or, as he is better known by
his nom de plume, MAX O'Rell," thinks
the American system of mixed schools is re.
sponsible for The true type of American
girl which he so much admires."
Pere Hyacinth is not theosophist The
report recently circulated that the great
French preacher had abandoned his work in
the "GaIlican Church. and become a dis
cple OF theosophy turns out to have been o
canard.
Lord Hawkes. has impaired his reputation
as thorough sportsman since his return to
England by whining over his defeat in
Philadelphia and attributing it to the fact
that some OF his men were seasick on the
voyage over.
Lady Macdonald, the widow of the late
Canadian Premier. is tall. with abundant
white hair and face that Is stamped with
energy and determination. She is clever
talker and the possessor of extraordinary
social graces.
William Alexander Barrett the musical
composer and critic, who recently died In
England, is the person who. more than any
one else, persuaded Dean Stanley to allow
memorial to Balfe to be erected in West
minister Abbey.
Miss Lolita Crabtree denies the tender i'm
peaehment that she is going to be married
to Douglass Shirley OF Louisville. The
merry little millonairess is certainly old
enough to know about it If there had been
any truth in the rumor.
William Orr, who died at his home in
Troy, N. Y, recently, claimed to have in
vented and used the first cylindrical wall
paper printing press and to have been the
first TO combine wood fiber with rags IN the
manufacture Of printing paper.
The late General Crook was a frst-class
marksman. An officer who served under
him on the plains tells that he once saw him
kill six pin-tailed grouse with seven shots Of
his rifle, and all OF the grouse but one were
shot in the head or neck. The General
always took good care Of his rifle.