The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-05-03
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

FLOFhE WHO AXE TALKED ABOUT.
Mrs: Henry Ward Beecher, at the age
Of Il, has gone on visit to Washington
territory to visit her son.
EN-President Cleveland has accented
an invitation to attend the German Young
Mems Association celebration in Buffalo
May 18th aud 18th.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, accompa-
MED by the Misses Vivian and Rosemary
Sartoris and Mr.. Lionel Sartoris, arrived
at New York recently.
The Washington Post SAYS that Mrs.
Waiter Damrosch will spend the summer
With Secretary and Mrs. Blaine during
the absence of her husband in Europe.
Charles Tappan, who built the famous
New York Tombs prison, is living in
that city at the age Of %. He has seen the
metropolis grow from a town of less than
100000 inhabitants.
Darlington Booth, Commissioner of tho
Salvation Army, deemed it necessary to
preface his little talk in Baltimore by
contradiction OF the rumOr that he and
his wife eloped. He added, however, that
their eight years of married life had been
very happy.
All sorts of excuses are made for STAY
ing away from religious services. but Mr..
Moody says that the one given by Bos-
ton woman surpassed any he ever heard.
could not attend the Moody meetings be-
cause she hadto remain home to care for
her pug dog.
DOrnon, the man who set out from
Parls to walk on stills to Moscow, didn't
go all the way. The police on the Russian
frontier wouldn't let him proceed, and,
after Yalnly trying to pass them, it COM
menced to D'Ornon him that he'd bettor
dlsmount. lie is now with an ordinary
circus in Prussia
The Rev. Thomas Dixon. of New York
is OF opinion that 'we need a more vigor-
Gus Americanism in society. Society
swells aping the aristocracy of Europe
are beneath contempt. The American
glrl who marrieS a foreign snob is a fool,
VINO deserves little pity when she is
abused by the brute whom she calls My
Lord
There were touching circumstances at
tending the last days of the late French
Protestant writer, Edmond de Pressense.
tie had undergone the operation of trachs
e0tomy and had lost the power of speech,
writing was then his only means Of COM
munication with his family. But his wife
had become blind from cataract, and
their intercourse was sadly restricted.
The London Chronicle SAYS that while
returning from a call on Earl Granville a
few days before the Earl died, Mr.. Glad
stone stumbled and fell in the street. The
fall, and reached his home with much diff
tculty. One of his eyes was blackened,
and he had received q severe shaking ND.
necessitating his confinement to the house
for several days.
TraXton Beale, United States Minister
to Persia, will leave this country for Te-
heran IN few days. His private secre@
tary, VIM. Z. Fox, has preceded him.
Mr.. Fox has recently been a newspaper
man, but he has had extended experience
in the foreign service, having held the
place of Consul at Brunswick, Germany.
for over a decade. The two gentlemen
are old schoolmates and friends.
Gladys Evelyn, the actress, who has
just lost breach of promise suit in Lon
don, against VIM. Henry Hurlburt. for
mer proprietor of the New York World,
is the Sister-In-law of a Philadelphia
architect, w. p. Hockington, who saws the
little boy living with her Is his own
motherless son. Miss Evelyn is the
daughter OF the Rev. Charles Ellis, a
clergyman of Manchester, England.
Mr.. Whistler's portrait of Thomas Car
lyle, painted about twenty years ago. has
been purchased by the corporation of
Glasgow. The London Standard OBJ
serves: The only counterfeit present.
ment of Carlyle with which it can be in
any degree compared is the statue of the
historian executed by the late Sir Edgar
Boehm. But while hardly less mascu-
line than that dignitied and worthy rec
ord, 1t is, perhaps, in its very reticence,
infinitely more pathetic. 1t is less a like
ness Of feature than the sympathetic in
depreciation OF peculiar temperament"
Nine. Patti has been great favorite in
Vienna ever since she narrowly escaped
being crushed to death by the crowd
which ftocked to see her when she was
leaving st. Augustine Chapel. Last week,
however, the attention of her friends
proved rather embarrassing. Not only
was she compelled by the terrific uproar
raised to sing three encore songs, but the
newspaper correspondents seemed to haVo
measured her champagne, analysed her
beef tea, investigated the lukewarm bran
bath, and, worse than all, penetrated into
tho mysteries of her golden couture. If
rumor speaks Alright, she is not sorry to
escape into the comparative retirement of
Buda-Pesth.
Miss Alice Rothschild, who, through
the Princess Louise, got the Queen to 90
to Grasse, is sister of Baroness de Roths-
child, and, though she was born and
brought up In London, lives the greater
part of the year in Paris and in the south
of France. She is q maiden lady no longer
young, is fond of literary people, and
loves flowers and the fine arts, but is not
so successful in high gardening as her
sister, or in painting as her cousin, Baron
ess Nathaniel de Rothschild. Her gar
dens and greenhouses at Grasse are
among the sights of the place, the staple
trade of which is scents extracted from
flowers. The Queen passes hours each
day in these grounds. Her donkey phae-
ton takes her round them, and her Wind
sOr tent is set up on terrace on the crest
of hill planted with oranges, command
ing a lovely view of the plain below
Grasse and of the sea.
DR.. Schliemann was not skilled in cer-
tain political arts. 1t was suggested to
him by friend, at time when the great
antiquarian was irritated by the Turkish
Governments delay in granting him the
necessary tirman for certain explorations,
that backsheesh might stimulate the Min
lister Of the Interior to action. But his
adviser neglected to inform him that such
a proceeding requires extreme delicacy.
and that the medium for etfecting such
bribery must always be confidential
and trustworthy personal friend of the
official so that the fact may not obtain
publicity. Schliemann, in ignorance of
the modus operandi in these cases, and
innocent of all intention to give ofiense,
followed his natural impulse, and one
morning, just before the assembling of
the Ministers in the Council Chamber. ha
walked boldly into the room where the
Minister and some of his colleagues were
seated at the council table, and placing
bag of gold coin in front of the chief off,
cial demanded that the long -delayed fir