The morning call., 1891-09-19
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Lord Tennyson seldom leaves his house.
Lady Tennyson's i'll health is the reason.
John j. Eagan, professor of mathematics
in the College OF the City of New York, Is
only 26 years of age.
Augusta Evans Wilson, the celebrated
Southern novelist, lives in an attractive house
in the suburbs of Mobile.
The sculptor Partridge is engaged upon a
bust of James Russe-Lowello of heroic size.
which is already well advanced in the clay.
A London journal relates that the Per-
sian Shah has been in retiracy lately be-
cause by mistake he used rheumatic lotion
instead Of hair-dreSsiDg, and turned his hair
beautiful myrtle color.
The greatest beauty at Saratoga Springs
this summer is generally conceded to have
been Miss Carrie Stevenson OF Baltimore.
Evidently Miss Stevenson has not heard Of
the reform in girls names.
The man behind the throne in Russia Is
Constantine Petrovitch P0bedenostzeff. the
highest civil official in the empire. He is
the practical head of the Russian Church,
and the most intimate adviser of the Car.
w. E. D. Stokes, who will probably be
elected to the seat in Congress made vacant
by tue death of General Spinola of Ne W
Y ork. is cousin of Ned Stokes, and was
II classmate Of Walker Blaine at Yale Col
lege.
Pennington, the air-ship man, is hard at
work in st. Louis constructing a flying ma
chine which he feels sure Will be able to sail
away from its detractors and the Sheriff.
Newspaper men do not, however, take much
stock i'll it.
John X. Redding. who was MEMBER Of
Congress from New Hampshire from 1S41 to
1868, is still living and in good health at
Portsmouth. OF his colleagues from New
England, Robert G. Winthrop is said to be
the only survivor.
Edward 7. Holden, the new Gladst0nean
member of the House of Commons for Wal
sail, is the one hundred and twenty-third
new member who has entered the House
since the general election of 1856. The
House of Commons consists OF go members.
S. C. Pomeroy occupied the seat in the
United States Senate vacated by jefferson
Davis in 1860. He found in the desk the
manuscript of the last address made to the
Senate by the future President of the
Southern Confederacy, and retained it as a
memento.
Two remarkable old ladies are Mrs. Han
nah Eustis and Miss Sarah Barr of Wake
field, Mass. They are twin sisters, born in
1900, and are still bright and in active
health. So great is their resemblance In
figure, voice and manner that one is fire.
quently mistaken for the other.
The Czarina OF the late Alexander II had
a superb set of opals which she always
wore, she asserted, to prove her contempt
for the old superstition that opals are un-
lucky. Probably it wasn't opal luck that
this royal opal-wearer was widowed by a
Nihilist bomb. When the eldest daughter
of the present Gar marries she will receive
these opals as wedding present.
Miss CornwalIis-West whose engagement
to Prince Hans Heinrich of Pless is an
nounced, is the beautiful daughter of a
beautiful mother. She was the loveliest of
last seasons London debutantes, and made
a sensation when her mother presented her
at the first drawing-ro0m. The two women
make an admirable contrast, for whereas
the mother is brunette the daughter is ex-
tremely fair.