The morning call., 1891-05-18
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Lord Salisbury's ancestors were members
of the English Cabinet 800 years ago.
Chauneey N. Depew is now Commander
of post of the Grand Army OF the Repub-
lie.
New Workers say Inspector BYrnes has
superstition. The nun Der of his house Was
once Is, but he has changed 1t.
Lord Randolph Churchill takes but two
books with him on his expedition to South
Africa-Shakespeare and MOliere.
Mr.. CaveDdish Bentinck, who died re-
Gently in London, left a collection of artis-
tic curiosities valued at over 100000.
Vidal, the blind sculptor. is one Of the
wonders of the French capital. He has
been blind since his twenty-frst year.
Lord HoughtOn, who recently succeeded
to his title, is poet as was his predecessor,
who was better known as MoncktOn Mines.
The committee having charge of the
Beecher Statue Fund in New York an
nOunceS that $500 Is required to complete
the work.
In the absence of Baron de Fava, Senior
Romero, the Mexican Minister becomes
Acting Dean OF the Diplomatic Corps in
Washington.
VI. Ambrose Thomas, the veteran COM
poser of Hamlet and 'MignOn," is slowly
recovering from a serious accident which
nearly cost him his life.
The resignation of President Warfeld of
the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, has
been accepted, and he will assume tn g Presi-
dency OF Lafayette College, Easton. Pa.
The Czarowitch of Russia during his re-
cent Indian tour required no less than thirty
tOngas or carts for his Luggage and about
800 pairs Of ponies to draw the same imped-
menta.
Mrs. Nancy NJ. johnson is the inventor of
the first ice-cream fTigeratOr in this coun-
try. Before her invention ice-cream was
made by a spoon constantly kept stirring up
the cream.
Giovanni PhilipsO is said to be the real
name OF the leader of the Marine Band, but
when he entered the Government service be
added u. 5. A. to his c0gnomen, and now
he is called John Philip Sousa for short.
While Chauneey NJ. Depew is one of the
pleasanlest men to interview, it has FREE
quently been noticed that he never enc0ur-
ages the interviewer to stay in his presence
for any length Of time by inviting him to
sit down.
Mrs. Locke, mother of David r Locke
petroleum V. Nasby). who has been living
in poverty near Wheeling, w. Va. has re-
ceiyed pension on account of her late hus-
band, Nathaniel Locke, having served in
the war Of 1872.
Stewart Diffenderfer has just closed
transaction by cable whereby he becomes
the owner Of HepSy, one of the most re-
markable dogs Of the st. Bernard breed in
the world. She was purchased of Ii. Chap
man Of Bath, England. The price paid was
$4,000.
Louis Kossuth is now SO years old. He
writes to a friend "There is something
abnormal in the organism of my eyes which
opticians cannot explain, it seems. | am
obliged to read and write, therefore, without
glasses. The effort, however, often ex-
hausts me-
''Mr. George w. Childs," the New York
Tribune learns, ''has consented to exhibit
his fine art and souvenir collection at the
Chicago Fair. Among his treasures is the
little green harp which belonged to Tom
Moore, and which he carried into hundreds
of Irish homes"
Pelagic, the Servian Anarchist has trav-
eled between Belgrade and Sofia for the
last three months at the expense of the
Servian and Bulgarian Governments. Servia
expelled him for the publication Of revo-
lutionary pamphlet, and gave him ticket
to the Bulgarian capital. Bulgaria promptly
gave him return ticket and started him
back. This sort of thing has been repeated
ten times.