The record-union., 1891-07-11
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT
Mrs. Oscar Wilde wears divided skirts.
which is not all strange. There has to be
somebody with pants on in every family.
Frank ingalls,, a younger brother of the
ex-senator, is President of Drury Col
lege at Springfield, Mo. He is tall and
I slender.
King Milan, it appears. leads some
what enviable existence in Paris. Ac-
cording to Figaro, he recently won $780,
900 francs at baccarat within forty-eight
hours.
George Gould passes his summer in a
log cabin in the Catskills. 1t is not stated
whether he wears patches on his pants,
but he probably does. At any rate, he
can afford to.
As Professor Harrington, the new
Weather CHIEF, is an astronomer, he will
doubtless so regulate the other planets
that they viii act on our own sphere so as
TO modify all extremes of weather.
Count Wilhelm Won Moltke, the head
OF the Won Moltke family has decided to
convert his uncle's study at Kreisan into
q memorial museum. Everything will
be left just as it was when the great field
marshal took his last journey to Berlin.
r. d. Blackmore, the British novelist.
is a hearty and well-preserved man of 65
years. He looks much like a typical
back-country squire, and rarely appears
in society, preferring to live the life of a
literary recluse. He is an Oxford gradu-
ate and lawyer.
Foreign papers announce that an en-
gagement has been arranged between the
young King of Servia and Princess Xenia,
the daughter Of the Prince of Montene-
gro. The young lady is only IL years of
az haS a.
Gar favored such match.
The remarkable interest displaved bv
the secular press in the election of Phil
lip Brooks as Bishop of Massachusetts is.
perhaps, without a parallel in that class
of affairs. And now widespread de-
mand by these papers for greater prompt
ness on the part of the bishops in confirm
ing the choice is noticeable.
Uncle Jerry Rusk, of the National De-
partment OF Agriculture, says that the re-
port that he mixed up the edible and
poisonous mushrooms in his last annual
report, is absolutely false. He has had
sufficient experience on the farm to know
the difference between common toad
stool and one that dame nature has
loaded for poisonous work with people of
perverted tastes.
John M. Wilson, who died at his home
in New Holland, Ohio, on June 18th, was
for many years in the Consular service.
He was Consul at Bremen under Presi-
dent Grant, and under President HAYES
he served as Consul at Hamburg and
Panama. On the election of President
Cleveland he returned home, somewhat
broken in health. He had an excellent
record in the State Department.
A man of Jansen, Fla, will realize So
600 this year from an acre of pineapples.
while Major Ryals of Chatham County,
Georgia, has a truck farm of 125 acres,
near Savannah, which yields him SIC. 900 a
year. His chief crop is Irish potatoes, of
which he has eighty acres. In addition,
he raises cabbages, tomatoes, beans, Gu
cumbers, onions and other small vege-
tables. His income from onions is 500
an acre.
Scholarship in Germany suffered a
great loss by the death of Professor An
ton Springer, in Leipzig, few weeks
ago. DIR. Springer was only 66 years of
age. He had been Professor III tho
University OF Leipzig. since 1866. Els
PTlncipad works r. :, are; handbook of the
Nineteenth Century," History OF Aus
tria Since the Peace Of VIENNA and
Raphael and Michael Angelo"
Prince Dolgoroukotf, who died in Paris
July 1st, was born in 1910 and entered
the Guards in 1929. Ho served in The
Polish war and displayed great bravery
IN the assault of Warsaw. Later on he
served in the Hungarian campaign. and
also in the Crimea. He was appointed
Governor of Moscow in 1865. His ances-
tor, Prince Michael Vseyolodoyich of
Tchernigof was executed by the Tartars
in l246, and has been regarded as mar
tyr.
General Buffers wife was with him
most of the time during the war, and he
says: THUS l had the advantage over
most of my brother commanding Generals
in the field in having an adviser, faithful
and true, ciear-headed, conscientious and
conservative. whose conclusions could
always be trusted. In the mere military
movements, although she took full note.
she never interfered by Il suggestion, for
in regard TO them I relied upon the opin-
ions OF my valued, accomplished and efIi-
cient staff.o
Beethoven's Flemish ancestry has been
proved by the discovery in Bonn of his
tory of the Beethovens since $50 wears
ago. The composers great-grandfather
lived in Antwerp in 1850. His son Lewis,
IN consequence of q family quarrel, left
Antwerp at about that time and got & po-
sition as tenor in the royal choir in Bonn.
His son Jean, Beethoven's father, was n
singer in the same choir. The last MEM
Der of the Antwerp branch of the family
was the mother of Jacob Jacob, marine
painter, who several years ago enjoyed
European reputation. She was Maria
Theresia van Beethoven and she died in
January, 1924.