The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-18
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Speaker Crisp's hands and feet are As
small and neatly shaped as w0msR's. let
be Is large man, brOad-chested aud muscu-
lar.
Texan exhibited 10 Chicago the other
{ az picture Of old Geron!mo's little son,
who /, said 70 be tie toughest small by il
the .u.hwest
The Speakers private secretary draws a
salary Of $500 a year. and thaTe are two
other clerks ard messenger al his service
Who divide $500 year between them.
Mrs. Talbot widow Ct the late Governor
Thomas Talbot OF hassaraI >etts, mas pr
seBted TO the Lowell City Hospiia. an en-
d0wmeut OF 5000 in memory Of her hus-
band.
General Samuel St0kelv. one Of the promi-
neut politicians 10 the q days OF Sleuben-
vile, nominated sherman for the first Office
be ever held. Tbs was forty years ago,
and Honest John has teen ii office ever
since.
A. idea of the load Senator Plumb car
ried on us shoulders Is ven IN the simple
statement Of the fact that there are now
pending 10 The Pension Office more than
Go60 Gains ( 7 Kansas, which were fled
pushed forward 0y Plumb.
Rosa BeuheuT has Just finished her great
and ambitious picture, Wing for lie sub
ject Ten lfe-slze horses treaGinE out grain.
Sae has been hard at work upon it for three
years, and now that IL i finished she has
refused an offer Of $4,000 for h
Dr.. Fritbigf Nansen, tie A-c,ic ex-
p.orer, viii deliver some lectures IL Eng
land during February and March upon MS
theories OF ocean currents u polar attitudes.
lie revenue from these talks VIII be de-
Egle1 20 lis next expedition, which VIII
probably set out IN search Of tie pole ealy
in 1893
Tie bandit. Athauas. who created such
havoc I'D Turkey a f-w months ago, recently
Sent z letter L. tie Governor 4 AdTianCpie
demanding S-l0C00 at once. IN case the
money >h ull not arrive al the appointed
place, Athanas sail that he would proceed
10 carry cut another robbery which lie had
planneI.
The Archduke Joseph, heir to the Aus
TRAN crow z, hrs recently shown his interest
IA tie eypsies b founding e colony Of them
near his estate Of GlOsuth. de built sixty
small houses for as many families, and hiss
taken measures 10 teach them agriculture
ard the trades. The ATcEdUEe attended
their first Christian wedding q few DAYS
ago, himself RttTed ia z psy fashion and
bearing tall bamboo siaIf, with al enOT-
nous uosegay and some brilliant drspery.
ST EtVld Arnold saws that In one sense
he breads 10 e. III my death" said ne a
few DAYS age. as 10 be painful / should
shrink from 1t / would any trying ordeal.
Then, l should regret l. die brCaUse Of the
large nun Der Cf dear friends | would leave
behind. Au0 YET. VINO mas reached sixty
years, as / have. without counting most Of
lis friends On the o.htT side? What a Joy
Il vii De 10 meet them Gga.nW
Royal and imperial perscnages who travel
incoEntO often have unpleasant sxpeTien-
ceS. During her recent tour in Egypt the
Empress Of Austria took q seat one after
noon III restaurant al Cairo AID ordered q
cup Il coffee her curiosity being excited
by tie peculiar color Of the drink Of a neigh
Dor she asked the walter what II was.
That" said the man standing uesr Der
Majesty. lis sbs.nThe, ard I little mad
aTe." touching her familiarity or the shout
deTs. would driuk I've OF tx glasses Of that
a day she would become thicker and
stronger than she now IS"