The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-02
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

English publishers paid Bret Harte Sl5,-
0C0 last year.
Bismarck will publish his memoirs dur
ing his fetimeN
Frau Won Bismarck is the confidante of all
her husbands cares, both private and Of
fetal.
The Duchess of Fife may frequently be
seen walking the streets of Brighton with
her baby in her arms.
The Czarina Of all the Russians does not
disdain to wear a calico gown when she is
on board the Imperial yacht.
Stephen Coleridge, son of the English
Chief Justice, is an artist, and his views of
lake scenery are said to be very fine.
Miss Olive Buchanan, United States Dep
uty Marshal at st. Louis, is the only person
of her sex now holding a position of that
kind.
Paul Revere, the hero of the famous ride,
was the President of Boston's first Board o {
Health. 1t was organized in Faneuil Hall
in 1863.
Edith Sessions Upper is writing play
for W. j. Florence for his next years tour.
She might appropriately call 1t "The Mys-
terry of Trunk"
George NJ. Pullman and family are at
their summer home, opposite Alexandra
Bay. 1t is one of the beautiful homes of
that famed region.
1t is now announced that General Bou-
ldEStl was DOl biIt dutilOT Oh llldL Hucu-
talked-about book which was recently in
ficted upon French readers.
Won Moltke's wei-wOrn desk has been
placed in the Berlin Museum, and the En-
peror has grave doubts about being able to
get any other soldier to make desk SO
famous.
Ignatius Donnelly passed through Pitts
burg for the West the other day. In the
lapel of his black frock coat was big blush
rose, and the great cryptogram isU was read
ing novel.
Litetary society in London has been show
ing marked attention to Mrs. General Gus
ter during her visit there. She has made a
favorable Impression on every one, which is
not singular, considering her popularity in
America.
The classmates of the late Lieutenant
George w. de Long. U. 5. N, who persisted
in the Arctic, having secured the necessary
funds, are about having a memorial tablet
placed in the Naval Academy Chapel at
Annapolis.
DR.. Witherspoon of Louisville, who has
been elected 10 fill the Char Of Theology in
Central College il kentucky. has mad ii re-
markable series Of succrsses since the tiiile
he became the youngest doctor OF divinity
IN the Presbyterian Church.
John !. Blair of B.aiyiile, \. j., Is re-
puied TO be worth all the way from SIS, 00O-
COO to Si00,001.000. He has never sold Il
share OF stock in any enterprise VITA which
| he has been associat d, aud has money in
vested i'll scores Of railroads. some of which
| lie absolutely controls.
DIR. Herbert Baxter Adams, Professor Of
History at Johns Hopkins University, lately
chosen Chief Of the Department of Liberal
Arts OF the Worlds Fair, is, says the Balti-
more American, native of Amherst,
Mass. He took his baccalAureate degree in
1872 at Amherst College.
Cardinal Manning. who has just entered
upon his eislIty-fourth year. observed in a
recent note to Mrs. Gladstone: You know
how nearly l have agreed in Williams DO
litlcai career, especially in his Irish policy
of the last twenty years." and ''bow few of
our OLD friends and companions now sur
ylypD