The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-15
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

DR.. John VAIL Queen of Princeton, class
Of 1877, has been appointed to the chair of
history and sociology in the Kansas State
University.
Frederick Douglass, the negro statesman,
cannot observe his birthday anniversary,
because he does not know precisely when
he was born.
President Harrison, with a party of
friends, will 20 to Mount McGreg0r during
the summer for the purpose of visiting the
cottage in which General Grant died.
Mrs. Emma Z. Ewing, the lecturer on
cooking, declares that while improvements
have been made in all other directions.
practical cooking stands where it did 100
years ago.
never rode bicycle in my lfe,," says
DR.. Depew. " have ridden great many
things, but never one of those things l
should be scared out OF seven years growth
ii mounted one"
Bsmarck's wife is rather short and stout.
She was never pretty, but she has always
had remarkably fresh and clear complex
ion. Her gruff husbands devotion to her is
said TO be quite touching
President DiaZ Of Mexico has a strain of
Indian blood in his veins, as had his pre-
decessOrs, Juarez and Hidalge The Con
gress Of Mexico is largely composed of de-
scendants of the ancient AZtecS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mr.. and
Armour, Mr.. and Mrs. John Wanamaker.
COrneliu Vanderbilt and family ana Mr..
and Mrs. POtter-Palmer are all in England.
The new Earl of Clancarty is not quite q
years old, while his Countess, b lie Billion
is all of 80. The estates inherited by the
new Earl are heavily mOrtgaged, AMI none
Of his fathers personal property was left to
him.
Andrew Carnegie has rented the famous
Cluny Castle, the Highland home of the
Chief Cluny Macpherson, and until the late
autumn shooting is over will maintain al
most regal dignity and hospitality In the
grand Old mountain stronghold.
Congressman Beden laid the foundations
OF MS vast wealth by saving up few hum
dred dollars from his salary as a school
teacher. Then he started for California in
1S49 and returned with a comfortable for
tune that mas every year grown larger
r. Fl. Sto ddard, writing in the Mail and
Express, says OF Maurice Francis Egan's
sonnet in the Century: ''Itis the best poem
found in the May magazines, and the best
sonnet we have read for years." Mr. Egan
IS the professor OF English literature at the
University Of NOtre Dame.
1t is now denied that Lord Lansdowne
wishes to retire from the post of VicerGv of
India. This is easier to believe than the
story OF his voluntary retirement from a
place that pays him $500, 600 year in sal
airy, with extras from the Government
amounting to more than this sum.
Senior Manuel Dublan, Secretary of the
Treasury In President Diazs Cabinet. who
died in Taeubaya, was 72 years of age He
was born of Indian parents, but received a
thorough academic and legal education and
was a man of great ability. His wife was a
| Miss MaZa, sister-in-law of the late Presi-
| dent JuareZ
In addition to her duties as her husbands
| private secretary. which include the hand
ling of several hundred invitations A week
Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew personally super,
visors the education, reading aud recreations
OF her son and Of her two little orphan
fines opportunity to continue her studies in
German and French and to practice daily.