The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-31
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Belva Lockwood is in the field for 49,
Whittier is two years oller than Holmes
ard Tennyson. He was born in 1907 they
in 1909.
Herbert Campbell, g London tragedian,
has offered himself for election to the Lon
don County Council.
Don Emilio CASTELAR,, ex-President of the
Spanish Republic, is now engaged in Paris
on important books.
Senator Palmer is "a years Of age, but on
the floor OF the Senate he appears in a better
state OF preservation than most men OF 90.
Princess Beatrice is painting a beautiful
fan to be presented TO Princess Victoria on
her forthcoming marriage to Prince Albert
Victor.
Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, who is
going to wed Prince collars and Cuffs" is
the acknowledged beauty of the royalty of
England.
Judge Red of the United States District
Court for Western Pennsylvania, after
being on the bench less than a year, has de-
cided to resign.
John W. Mackay's fine mansion In the
Rue Tilsit, Paris. is for sale at $500. 900,
which Is said to be no more than the wocth
of the lot alone.
Russell Sage's income is estimated at S15
minute. That dynamite crank must have
robbed the poor man out of about S43 So of
his valuable time.
MI. bOSCIcu, Ile NDdnceIIOT Oh GIb
Exchequer, is sac to be the ablest debater in
Parliament, but he has voice like the
hoarse croak OF rain crow.
Frederick Douglass has bought the church
ed1hce in which he once worshiped, and to
which he Is much attached. in oider TO help
the congregation pay off its Indebtedness.
Jean de ResZke the tenor, has a remark
able memory. 1t takes him usually week
to learn new opera. but sometimes he car
rles new role to his room in the evening
and before he gees TO bed has store il in his
mind, note and letter perfect
Charles r. Strong, for two years student
at Clark University, has been appoln Ell to
of Chicago. He will enter upon his duties
at once. Mr.. Strong is a son-in-law of John
Rockefeller, founder of the university.
A writer in Belgravia recalls what seem
like nockery of fate Before the poet,
Philip Bourke Marston, became blind. In
fact while he was yet an infant. Dinah
MnlOch, his gOdmOtler, apostrophiZed his
beauty in lines beginning, Look at me
with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my
kingp
Van Dyck, the Wagnerian tenor. Is only
80 years old. When he went to Paris in
1888 it was to stndy journalism, although he
was fond OF music, and he soon became at
tached to the staff Of La Patrie. IL hap
pened one evening that VidaPs cantata was
to be performed publicly at the Ere Dch
capital, and the tenor. Ward, was i'll. With
fear and trembling Van Dyck agreed to
sing the role, and his success therein deter
mined his future career.
When Congressman John Mitchell OF
Milwaukee came TO Washington for the first
time and wanted to rent house at $4,000 q
year, the real estate agent whom he con-
suited held the matter open until he could
hurry over to the Agricultural Department
and consult Secretary Rusk about the appl-
cAnL3 financial standing. Rnt he 10
covered that his would-be patron was a
millionaire, and the son Of millionaire, the
late Alexander Mitchell. he concluded to
close the bargain.