The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-07
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs. Gladstone recently passed her sew
/ enty-ninth birthday.
During the re IN Of Queen Victoria Great
/ Britain has had fifteen wars.
Mrs Elizabeth Custer is about TO remove
/ TO Boston, where she viii take up her per-
manent abode
/ The death Of Professor Lowering re-
/ moves one Of H8TYard's oldest, ablest and
most popular Instructors.
/ Mrs. Amelie Rives- Chanler has had the
/ grip, and finds her command OF the Eng jsh
/ language utterly inadequate to any attempts
/ to describe L
Only one woman Of the upper class in
/ Egypt is permitted 10 see men. She is the
/ widowed Princess Naval, for whom the
/ Sultan issued an order granting her that
J privilege.
George Subcr, aged o. residing near
/ BaTnyS Corners, Ind, fought with General
Ja-ksOn at New Orleans In August last
! he was married. Tie old man is still stout
and hearty.
| Mr.. Paul du Chailu must be a man who
| is particularly popular with the ladies, for
/ while u Africa, he says, he was offered
/ 10000 Niyes-ol5 On one particularly Inter
/ estlHg day.
II. Patenotre, the new French Minister to
/ Washington, IS a smart-lOoklug bacAelor Of
/ -, OF agreeable manner and con siderable
/ wealth, and has pleasant face ct OF with
a neat NapgieOnIc mustache.
! One If the youngest railroad presidents
/ in The country Is George ". Saul tile eXecu-
! tive head Of The Chicago and Eastern Illinois
/ road He viii not celebrate his thiTty-fourth
! birthday until next October.
! The wife Of Mr. Justice Brown Of the
! United States Supreme Court has in her
! possession WIIting-table on which Lafay-
! cite is believed 10 have indited much of his
! correspondence while IN America.
/ The Duke de Ljtta has been lionzed by
/ the people Of Charleston, ,. c., where he
/ has recently been visiting. The Duke Is an
! Italian uobleman Of the first rank, closely
/ allied TO the reignlng family OF Italy.
Giovanni Gorzosso. the blind hermit Of
/ the Island Of IyacinJhOs, is declared by
/ recent visitor 10 have devised a reflector
/ which throws sunlight enough into bis cave
/ to warm it and comfort its sightless tenant.
Senator Davis Of Minnesota has a note
worthy collection Of NapolcOna, embracing
800 books and quantities OF pictures. TO the
! Senator the Little Corpora" is tho great
/ est hero Of History, and he reads every line
/ be can fad relating 10 him.
Dan Rice, who was a etTeus-mau before
Baruum, and the greatest clown Of the
century, is engaged IN the Tpal-estate BUSH
ness in New York, and has been making
money at it, He Is deyOting his time out
side Of his business TO writing his memoirs
The city Of FrankfOrt-On-the-M Main has
I sent q leGutilul silver statue TO Dr. MIGUEL,
| Minister Of Finance in Germany. The
present is intended as a tribute to his sue
cess from his former fellow-citZens. The
/ Minister was formerly FIRST Mayor Of Frank
fort.
The richest congregation in New England
| is said TO be Rev Brooke Hereford's church.
! Among The millionaire parishioners are such
solid Hubtes as the Nggeworths, Titles,
/ Lowels, LorIngs, Russells, T0Treys Put
mans. HoilandeTs, Cases, COolidges and
chickering's.
Senator Gordon says that when he was
/ wounded ut the battle Of Sharpsburg he
1 thought his head had been carried away by
a cannon bail. 1t then struck him that if
| his head was gone he could not think, and
I eventually lie discovered that the wound
/ was not so serious after all.
il was announced in England when Mr..
/ Gladstone went 10 BiarritZ that letters
! would ntt be forwarded to him from
| Hswarden. But some secondhand book
sellers Yentured TO send him some cata-
| iugues direct, and received some orders
as promptly as TO indicate that he looked at
some Of his mail, even when 1t came from
strangers.