The record-union., 1891-06-20
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT


PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
NJ. Eiffel, who conceived the tower in
Paris, lives up on the Jungfrau, in the
Swiss Alps. He has just obtained per-
mission to build railroad up the mount
ain.
The model husband was seen on a De-
troit street-car recently. He had letter
band so as to have a sure thing on mail
ing it.
Ex-Governor Gilpin of Colorado and
his wife, after fighting the divorce ques-
ton in the courts for years, have finally
come to terms and will live together
again.
Hon. Stephen Coleridge, son of the
English Chief Justice, is an artist of no
mean ability, and has collection of paint
lngs of the lake country on exhibition
just now.
Ibsen has evinced his interest in the
educational and social development of
the fair sex bv joining the Woman's Pro-
gressive Society of Munich, as Vice
President
Charles Dudley Warner is described, in
what is perhaps meant to be compli-
mentary way, by Western newspaper
as Our American fiash-light photogra-
pher Of social fads"
- The King off Denmark bears a bitter
grudge against Germany on account of
Schleswig- -Holstein, and hence he avoids
all intercourse with his neighbor. When,
as now, he patroniZeS Wiesbaden, there
fore, he goes privately.
Ex-senator Ingalls, and Judge Horton
of Kansas are political enemies, though
both Republicans, and it is thought that
the former gentleman will not rejoice
"a IG1I1 n1N lon
ment of the latter as member of the new
Land Grant Court.
The London Truth says: An Irish an
tiquarian has just discovered that the
Benjamin D'Israeli, Esq.," who was
High Sheriff Of the county of Carlow in
1910, was an uncle of Lord Beaconsfeld.
He is buried in st, Peters Church, Dub
lin, having died in 1914, aged 48.
Miss Annie DeBarr of Chicago is earn
ing her living by running a stationary
engine. This is evidence that Chicagoans
do not debar women from engaging in
any employment they may choose, and
yet they seem to object strongly to allow
ing Miss Cousins to act as Secretary ofthe
Worlds Fair Committee.
In Walt Whitman's new volume of
prose and verse just issue ed, he says that
many Of the pieces contained in it have
been submitted to publishers and mag
aZine editors, and they were peremptoriIy
rejected by them. 1t is pity that more
of Walt Whitman's paregoric poetry has
not been rejected by publishers.
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, Henry
Ward Beecher's successor, said in his
sermon recently: Il not only disavow
| belief that the Bible is inerrant, but also
that it is infallible. find no claim of in
fallibility made for the Bible. Because
the Bible is not infallible, it is all the
| more glorious revelation. To me it is
more sacred because probably human"
DR.. Arthur Greaves of Boston has re-
turned from years mission labor
| among the Indians. His verdict is:
teaching in the world could make no diff
ference. The best way to solve the
Indian problem is not to bother with it
at all. Leave them all to Western people
and they will treat the red man fairly and
keep him in his place at the same time.
Eastern philanthropists, who meddle
with affairs of which they have no ac-
curate knowledge, do more harm than
good"
The Russian Grand Duke Sergius is
said to be profoundly devout in manners.
If he happens upon an image of reputed
sanctity he will PROSTATE himself before
it. If there are relics of some old ecclesi-
astic of by-gone generations he will not
be happy till he kisses them. If there is
must also worship. And the lady almost
an English princess, since the grand
daughter of the Queen, to whom he is
married has had to learn to accommodate
herself to his tastes. Long though she
stood out, the end was inevitable. And
! she likewise has to assume devotional
| attitude before the pictures, crosses and
| old bones and corpses that are so crafty
! ing to her husband.
| Anecdotes of the late Nine. Blayatsky
| fill the air. Here is one of the best of
them: 1t is related that having been de-
! fed by her governess to find any man
! who would be her husband, she made
General Blayatsky propose to her within
| three days; then, repenting of her joking
| acceptance, tried to escape, but it was too
| late. When the priest said at the altar,
Thou shalt honor and obey thy hus-
| band" she was heard to mutter, "Surely
/ shall not" and she promptly took the
| law into her own hands and left her hus-
band forever. The narrator of the incl
| dent adds "a born occultist could never
| have plunged into a relationship so intol-
erable, SO impossible, for her as that of
husband and wife, if she had understood
on the ordinary plane of human affairs
what she was about"
| What was probably the maiden speech
of the present Emperor of Germany is
described in a Berlin letter to the Phila-
| uelpnIa ItUteS. Ii occurred IN lSSU at
Kenigsberg, the occasion being a ban
quet rendered to Frederick, then Crown
Prince, and his son, Prince William.
| The Crown Prince sat at the head of the
table, pipe in mouth, and big bumper
Of claret in front of him, to all seeming to
enjoy himself to his hearts content. He
showed no particular inclination to talk
"a fact which seemed to have restless
effect upon his son. for the young Prince
| suddenly got up, bowed to his father.
and launched out in passionate verbiage
on the duties of a soldier and the glories
of the Fatherland. The Crown Prince at
first looked astonished and then smile
of satisfaction and pride wreathed itself
amid the puffs of his pipe and, turning to
an officer who sat by his side, he said:
"Well, William is not quite his mothers
boy, but he suits his father to perfec-
ton"