The record-union., 1891-01-18
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT


PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
a nephew of the great DR.. Schliemann,
Carl Schliemann, is singing in the Emma
Juch Opera Company.
There are nineteen milliAnaires in the
United States Senate, whose combined
wealth ioots up about Sl40,000,000.
Think of 1900 clocks, of all ages, vari-
ties, and FORMS of beauty, and all ticking
Tor George w. Childs, in a room specially
designed for them.
Dr. w. III. NIilburn, the blind Chaplain
of the House of Representatives, is writ
ing book on the pioneers of the Missis-
sippi Valley. He has collaboration.
The Duchess d Uzes has lost $4,000 by
the flight of Il French banker. 1t is said
that she has also sunk S650,000 i'll the
GdatofS, n Partisan Royalist newspaper.
Ida Lewis, the famous life-saver, has
been offered chance to go on the stage
as the hero i'll a life-saving scene, but she
prefers her station in the Newport light
house.
GuStav Ereitag, the famous German
novelist, is dangerously i'll. His physi-
Clans have ordered his removal to q re-
sort for invalids in the southern part OF
Europe.
Mrs. Chandler, the widow of Zachariah
Chandler, is erecting a beautiful house in
| Washington. Its walls are of pink
yellow brick, with trimmings of gray
yellow stone.
George 7. Brewster, who designed the
Inquire Indiana" for the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument to be erected Mt In
dianapolis, is a native of Massachusetts,
and is not yet IS years OF age.
Mrs. Dolph, wife OF the Oregon Senator,
is one of the pretty women of Washing
ton. She is a brunette. of fine figure and
handsome face. She is farmers daugh-
ter and was dairymaid in her youth
| Professor II. III. Jesse, of Tulane Uni
versity, New Orleans, who has been
elected President of the Missouri State
| University, is Il Virginian by birth, and
Il graduate of the Virginia State Univer-
| sity.
Edwin B. Winans, who will be the first
| Democratic Governor that Michigan has
| had i'll thirty years, is u conservative,
| bald-headed old farmer, with neatly
| trimmed beard and kindly eyes beaming
out of gold spectacles
Sir John Millais' eyesight which gave
him good deal of trouble and threatened
| to interfere with his painting, has im-
proved. He has given himself the adj
vantage of a very long rest, and his gem
eral health is excellent.
Archduchoss Maria Dorothea is one of
| the beauties of the Austrian Imperial
| family. She is above medium hight,
| with dark hair and eyes and a fresh com
| plexion. She is noted for her charities
and for her skill in piano playing.
| Miss Annie Reeve Aldrich. who is
achieving some reputation as a poet and
story writer, is tail, graceful and rather
| statuesque girl. Her manner are very
| charming, and she is proud of the fact
| that she comes of good old English
| family.
German musical papers say that DR..
Hans Won Buelow has decided to give up
his public piano recitals. 1t is said that
| the state of the great pianist's health will
| not allow him to do more than attend to
| the direction of the Philharmonic Society
| of Berlin. Ja
Mrs. Harrison never touches wine,
punch or liquor of any description, and
| If her wishes were carried out the strong
| est beverage served ut White House state
dinners and banquets would be Apoli-
| naris water, On the Presidents private
| table wine is never served.
The widow of DIR. Schliemann, the
great Grecian archaologist, is hardly
| more than girl in years, but she is a
beautiful woman, and has been most
| carefully educated. She knows several
| languages besides Greek, and is said to
know nearly all the Iliad by heart.
Ye Cha You, the Corean Charge d'Af-
| fairs at Washington, is believed never to
| have seen his little son, who died re-
| Gently, as the Coreap custom prevents a
| father from seeing child until three
| months after its BIRTH and the little one
| was only two months old when it died.
Bertha Weldon, a Peoria, ILL.,, spinster.
| solved the tin-horn nuisance in that town
| on Christmas eve. She stood at her gate
and every boy who came along with a
| horn or other sound nuisance received a
1,..r r.Nf,< L.
| Hers was quiet neighborhood after that.
Queen Victoria is said to believe that
| the House of Orleans is unlucky, and does
| not wish their bad luck to overcloud her
| family. She has also, says correspond
| ent, a clear view of the necessity of not
being on bad terms, through the fault of
her own house, with the French Re-
| public.
| Edwin A. Abbey and John T. Sargent
| are to decorate room each in the new
| Public Library of Boston. 1t is expected
! that this building when completed will
| rank with the finest in America. At all
| events, the Hubites make this claim. 1t
| is hoped to have each room of the edifice
decorated by different artist.
| Baron Nordenskjold, the Swedish ex-
| plorer and recognized authority on
| Greenland, has written a letter to Profess
| sor Horsford, of Cambridge, in which he
expresses full accord with his view that
| the Norsemen frequently and numer-
ously visited the American continent and
| formed an element III the race mixture
| here.
The ladies of Sorosis are not beautiful,
according to description of one of them,
but they look earnest and sensible, and
undeniably compose the cream of New
9ork's literary women. Mrs. Clymer,
| the clubs old-time President and best
| looking member as well, is slender and
| graceful blonde, with sweet voice and
! fine eyes.
United States Treasurer Huston is a de-
voted horseman, and at his place at Con-
nersyiile, Ind, he has handsome stables,
the stalls of which contain valuable
horses, of aristocratic lineage and noble
records. Mr.. Huston is n student of the
trotting horse and his stables invariably
carry off prizes when they are exhibited
at fairs and horse shows.
DIR. Henneage Gibbs. of the Michigan
| University. the man who has helped dis
cover a consumption cure to rival DIR.
Koch's, has a daughter who is mighty
| hunter. He, too, loves out-of-doors, and,
| with his child, is eften seen tramping
afield with dog and gun. The two are fla
miliar figures on the hills and fields about
the Michigan Athens.
Young Henry George Savage, who is
| exploring some of the unknown lands of
Japan, is n grandson of Walter Savage
Landor, and an artist of note. He has
! travelled into the interior of Hokhaido
and to the Kurile Islands, going on horse
back $500 miles and walking some 400
miles. For seventy days he lived entirely
on raw fish, seaweed and rice.
| Mrs. Mackay's stay in Charles street is
to be brief, for her husband has just pur-
| chased the slendid house in Carlton
House Terrace, on which Mrs. Sandford
expended little over ei00,00o. There is
nothing more palatiai in London, for the
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