The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-10

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs Evaline Neal has turned up In Parls
with forty-three husbands.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, when
last heard from. were travelling in Mexico.
Paulus. the French singer, has scornfully
refused an offer of $1,000 a month to sing in
Berlin.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt has succeeded to
great extent in c0nquering his old enemy.
insomnia.
Colonel Thomas P Ochiltree is said to be
the real author OF 'LaSea,' the famous poem
of Texas life.
Bismarck will move to Berlin, we are told,
having taken two large houses In the KONG
gratzer-straSse.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has left Eng
land for a ramDle through Italy. Her health
is very precariOus.
John D. Rockefeller carries a 2j-cent
cane, and yet there are canes that can be
had for less money.
1t is the boast of Rev R. L. Kidd. Cana
dian evangelist, that he can recite the entire
Bible from memory.
Peter The Greats house IN Caandam. H0l-
land, is owned by the Car, who Is having
1t overhauled and repaired
fishing Tshang, the new Chinese Minister
at Paris, is Tartar by birth and a Roman
Catholic, and so is his wife.
The Italian Sarah Bernhard is Mile. La
Deus, who has recently appeared with i'm
mense success in Rome as Camille.
DR.. Koch, who has just returned to Berlin
from Egypt, is reported much depressed
over the non-succesS of his lymph.
John Stephenson. the great American
horse-car builder, is now hale aud hearty
octOgenaran full of business push.
Editor Watterson says he was 4 famous
piano-player once, and as a boy he used to
play at concerts with Adelna Patti.
Charles Tebo Of Barre. VT, is So years Of
age, has twenty-nine living children and
works for living in stone quarry.
Queen Victoria's months sojourn at
Grasse, in the Maritime Alps, will cost
somewhere between $50, 900 aud 800, 600.
|. General James A. Ekin, who died in
Louisville few days ago, was one of the
military commissioners who tried Mrs. Sur
raft
Empress Frederick. during her recent visit
to Paris, made number of sketches, which
are to be copied and printed tor beneVo-
lent purpose.
GeneralDan Butterfeld. the friend of TIE
Comte de Paris, lives in New Y ork with
five more Generals of the same name to keep
him company.
Ellen Terry has published in the New Re-
view the first of a charmingly written series
of articles founded upon interesting remi-
niScences Of her own life.
Mrs. Shaw, the famous lip artist. is about
to go to Constantiuople, where she viii have
the honor of giving whistling concert De-
fore the Sultan and his harem.
Professor Charles A Young of Princeton,
the greatest Of American astronomers. is
short and very round shouldered, with
pair of very keen, flashing eyes.
Margaret Sangster encourages the produce
ton of sunshine by saying: The longer
live the more am inclined to set the high
est valuation on pleasant people"
Mrs. George Could has lost none Of the
beauty and ylvacity which used to capiure
the hearts of 50 many people when, as Edith
Kingdom, she acted at Days Theater.
Colonel A. S. FoensDee, one of the Chi
cago victims of the grip, commanded the
Massachusetts regiment thatwas mobbed in
Baltimore in the early days of the war.
Queen Victoria is to be godmother of tho
son of Lord Onslow, Governor of New
Zealand The unfortunate child is 10 be
named "Taikoa," Maori word meaning
ION slow"
Ma,hilda Serrao, the Italian authoress, is
said to have applied much of the power and
perception of Dickens to the middle and
lower ranks of italian life, through her
novel, Fantasy"
Franz Won Suppe, the well-known must
clan, recently celebrated. in Vienna. his fif-
tieth anniversary as composer He re-
ceiyed kilograms OF congratulatlon from all
parts of tile civilized world.
The Earl of Albemarle, now In his
ninety-second year, is one of the few sur
yiyors of Waterloo He was present at the
famous ball in Brussels on the eve OF the
battle and left the ballroom to join his COM
pany in the field.