The record-union., 1891-08-21
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT

PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
| DR.. Gray, the Afghan Ameer's physi-
clan, reports that forty feet of snow fell
at Cabul last winter.
1t is reported that Prince Ferdinand Of
Bulgaria viii marry Archduchess Ste
| phanie, the widow of Crown Prince Ru-
| dolph of Austria.
! Miss Bayly EDNA LyalD, the English
novelist, is interesting herself to raise
fund to redeem the late Mr.. Bradlaugh's
| property, which is burdened with debts
| incurred in his Parliamentary struggles.
| Miss SusaD NJ. Duncklee of Newton.
Mass, the only woman treasurer OF a
bank in that State, has resigned after
seventeen years Of brilliant success, and
| not trip TO Canada during the whole
period.
The Grand Lodge of Masons of Georgia
prohibits every lodge from comforting
| the degrees OF Free Masonry upon any
one who makes it his business to manu-
facture or sell Intoxicating liquors TO be
| used as beverage.
Mr.. Rogers of Marengo, ILL.,, writes to
the Worlds Fair headquarters that he
has meteorolite of some twenty tons
| that they may have by sending for it. 1t
| dropped upon his farm one quiet day and
| he can produce witnesses who saw it
| drop. 1t has been accepted.
There is more than possibility that
| General Sherman's married daughter.
Mrs. r. s. Thdckara, will make an i'm
! preston in the literary field. She has
| recently taken up the pen in an am
bilious manner, and has the talent re-
! quired TO interest the reading public.
The mad King of Bavaria sometimes
! smokes as many as 100 cigarettes a day.
| For each cigarette he uses an entire box
of matches, touching off the others to see
| them burn after he has used one to Sc
| cure light. He has two new suits of
| black broadcloth made for him twice
1 every week.
General Il. G.. Dryenforth, who is try
| ing to produce rain by bombarding the
| heavens from balloons, studied for four
| years in the military schools of Prussia,
! just before the outbreak of the American
I civil war. He was a skilled artillery
man, and served on the staffs of Gen
| erals Rosecrans and Grant.
| A literary man who has Just seen Will
| lam Black writes from London that it is
! quite probable that the novelist viii visit
! America this autumn. He has expressed
| himself as being exceedingly anxious to
| come over, and has almost decided TO do
| so this fall, if he can finish the novel
| upon which he is now engaged in time
Miss Mary Edith Rusk is the only liv-
| ing daughter Of the Secretary of Agri-
! culture. While he was Governor of Wis
consin, and when the family were living
| at Madison, another died. Miss Rusk is
| the light of her mothers household She
is about 20, Of pretty figure, with clearly
| nodded features and quiet demeanor,
| yet when walked up she is viVacious and
alert for repartee.
Ex-Empress Victory of Germany says,
| regarding domestics GAS long as the
| moral welfare Of the domestics is not bet
| ter looked after, remedy of the evil can
not be expected. In the first place some
thing should be done to shorten the
working hours of servants, and then
little more personal liberty should be
allowed them. Not all Of their demands
are justifiable, but some are, and those
should be granted"
Charles Dickens, the younger, wears
| spectacles, is getting bald, and works as
hard as any other literary laborer in Lon
don. BE has considerable mustache,
| and in addition to editing All the Yea7'
| Round. contributes largely to other
periodicals, and makes it pay. He is on
kindly terms with all the literary celeb
rites Of the day, and says the aim of his
| life is to bring back Gad's Hill into his
family If he can raise the money.
NJ. Jansen, who last year proposed to
| build an observatory at the top of Mount
Blanc, announces that his appeal has been
| responded to by Bischoffsheim, the bank
| phonse de Rothschild and NJ. Eiffel. It's
| building is still problematical The
foundation must be on solid rock, and no
| one knows whether the ice is 80 or $50
| feet thick. If the ice is no thicker than
| 30 feet the plan is regarded as feasible.
Mrs. Waite, widow of Chief Justice
Waite, though II years of age, has dark
hair and comparatively unwrinkled
| face. To Helena reporter, who had
ventured to ask if she were not much
younger than her late husband, she re-
Gently replied that the maintenance of its
color by her hair was but a family trait.
Two of her sisters had had a similar ex-
perience. Mrs. Waite, accompanied by
her sister and daughter, has been Jour
| neying leisurely to the Pacific Coast, and
will stop at Salt Lake City on her return.
Queen Victoria is so dearly beloved in
Australia that pretty articles are con-
stantly appearing in the different papers
about her. IN a newspaper article re-
Gently published the writer enlarged up-
on the affection in which her majesty is
held throughout the empire, and great re-
gret is expressed because certain of the
London society papers see fit to say un-
kind things about her maiesty's peouli-
arities. According to the Melbourne
scribe, "her life must now be one of tram
guilty, tempered by the London society
journals"
Mime. Blavatsky is not to be "suc-
ceeded' by Lady Caithness without
contest. w. Kingsland, member of the
executive council of the European sec
ton OF the Theosophical Society, writes
TO London journal: mime. Blayatslly
has no successor, either in the outside
organization of the society, which is not
affected by her death, because she held
the special office of corresponding secre-
tary which does not require to be filed
up; neither has she any successor as a
teacher, for there are none before the
world who are qualified to take her place
in this respect. | know of no other way
in which anyone could claim to be her
successor, and If the claim has ever been
made by Lady Caithness there is no au-
thoritY to SuDDOrt il -