The record-union., 1891-08-13
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PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT

PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.
NJ. Meilhac, the successful comedian. is
plump, rotund and jolly man. His
colleague, NJ. Ludovic Halevy, is just his
opposite, being tall, serious and elegant.
Baron Osten Sacken, descendant of
Napoleon's Field Marshal, rich and un-
married, committed suicide lately in
Dubbein, a seaside resort in Livonia, be-
cause life was too mOnotonous."
The Princess Helene of Montenegro,
who may some day be the Czarina, for
she is reported to be the allotted pride of
the heir-apparent to the Russian throne,
is said to be the prettiest royal girl in
Eastern Europe.
The general impression that eX-State
Senator J. S. Fassett, just appointed Col
lector of the Port of New York, is a
millionaire, is said to b9 erroneous. He
has comfortable fortune, but it does
not run up in the millions.
Rev. Edward Beecher's adopted daugh-
ter received at her baptism the name of
| Voice Adams. She was one of family
Of fifteen children. whom her father, a
great grandson of John Quincy Adams
supported by lecturing on 1.-THE Voice of
| Nature"
The Pope is SO frail and thin that it
seems as if breath would blow him
away. But despite his extreme age and
| feebleness he retains wonderful hold on
life. His faculties are unimpaired and
/ MS memory is particularly strong and
! accurate.
Miss Antoinette Knaggs, college edu-
| Gated young woman of Ohio, owns and
manages farm of 200 acres. She carries
| on her work according to the theories of
| books, rather than by ancient traditions,
and, contrary to the usual impression
about book farmers she is making a sue
cess of her undertaking.
Mrs. II. S. Gould of Georgia, is a rail-
road woman. She gave her means and
efforts to the building of the Covington
and Macon Railroad. She has also had a
deal to do with its management, and is
said to have had share in the building
OF the Middle Georgia and Atlantic Rail-
road. She also runs a farm of 400 acres
DIR. Newman Hall, the noted English
| Congregationalist divine, is 70 years old.
! The famous tract, "Come to Jesus,I of
which he is the author, has had greater
sale than almost any other religious
work, excepting the Bible. Several
million copies of it have been printed,
and it has been translated into more than
| thirty languages.
Ex-Speaker Thomas 3. Reed, who has
! just returned from Europe, says he was
| in Rome during the discussion of the
| New Orleans affair, and that he noticed
| no excitement there. Everything ap-
peared to be quiet both in Italy and
! Sicily, but he thinks the episode fright
ened away great many Americans, who
would otherwise have travelled in Italy.
Senior Salvador Mendonca, the Bra
| lillian Minister, is the wealthiest man in
| the diplomatic corps at Washington. a
portion of his fortune he made in invest
ments in Brazil, and very comfortable
! sum came to him as his wife's dowry.
Tln rio AIaH,
and the Minister'S four daughters have
spent almost all their lives in this coun-
| try.
truman harrington, favorite guide
| and woodsman of the Adirondack repion.
! died at Camden, n. Y, last week, aged
| IL. He was noted as an enthusiastic and
| sklllful woodsman from youth. Of late
! years he has been Chief Forester for the
| BiSby Club at their camp on Bisby Lake,
He was veteran of the rebellion, having
served as First Sergeant of Company 4
| of the Ninety-seventh New York Vofun-
teers until wounded.
| jacques st. Cere. the brilliant foreign
editor of Paris Figaro, went to London
to witness the fetes. In an interview he
is reported as saying: MY impression of
| the Empress is that she has but very
small part to play. She seemed to be as
tonished at the attentions shown to her in
| England, as If not accustomed to such
considerations. On her face is the sad.
! reserved smile of a German hausfrau
who lays the table while her husband is
away; who is always at home while her
husband is always out.''
a Napoleonic veteran has Just returned
to st. Petersburg from Siberia. This old
| gentleman, who is Pole by birth, and q
native of Wilma, is named Imitsetzky,
and has attained the age of I03 He was
Napoleon l. g Adjutant, took part in his
world-famed expedition to Russia, and
was decorated by the Emperor with the
Legion of Honor at the battle of Wag-
ram. He was taken prisoner at Beresina.
and, receiving pardon from the Car, re-
mained for time in the Russian service.
But, for having taken part in the Polish
rising of 1881, he was condemned to
twenty years imprisonment in the mines
of Siberia. On the termination of his
| sentence he was free to quit Siberia. but
has been forty years in taking advantage
of his permission.
An American, who saw the German
Emperor with the other royal person
ages at the Covent Garden Opera House,
writes: Il was wholly aware of the ,In-
| fortunate defect in the Kaiser's left arm.
l knew that it was incapable of move
meht except by lifting with the right
arm, that the Emperor had to eat with
one hand, using combination knife and
! fork, and so on, yet, with all this prepar-
alton, the spectacle of that helpless, with
| cred arm, hanging limp and dwarfed at
the side of this stalwart man, came upon
me as a painful shock. My heart seemed
to stand still for one moment in profound
pity. Presently the Emperor, with a
deft movement of his right, raised the
useless left hand to the hilt OF his sword
where it rested gracefully, and the defect
was no longer apparent. He looked in
deed a King, vastly more regal and pow
erful than the stalwart, heavy, rather fat
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