The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-01-02
PERSONAL NOTES.
Some Items About Well-Known Peo-
pie Here aud There,

Some Items About Well-Known Poo
pie Here aud There,
Octave Thanet is an adept in the almost
lost art OF Ietter-writing.
Mr.. Gladstone finds in Roger Bacon
'perhaps the highest British intellect of
the middle ages"
General Wade Hampton of South Caro-
lima has just written a letter once more
declaring that nothing can tempt him to
re-enter public life.
Bronson Howard says that American
managers are now seeking American
plays, and that foreign dramatic works
are merely regarded as stopgaps.
When Ameie Rives wrote ''The Quick,
or the Dead" she was glad to receive
81 200 for the manuscript. For Barbara
Dering" she received the publishers 5
check for 5000.
An American who has recently be-
come converted to Mohamlnedanism is
collecting money in India to send mis-
sionaries to this country to turn the peo-
pie from Christianity.
Austin Corbin has over seven hundred
animals in his game preserve ut Neport,
\. ii. Elk predominant. His greatest
satisfaction is oyer his buffalo. He now
| has five distinct herds.
DR.. Sigl, a Bavarian statesman of more
than provincial reputation, proposes to
be q member of the incoming Landtag or
know the reason why. He will run in
five districts and expects to be elected in
each.
Frank Lehew Of Hannibal, Mo, who
recently received pension of s., 800 and
Sl7 per month from the Government, has
subscribed 500 toward liquidating the
Indebtedness of the United Brethren
Church.
Chauncey Depew once said that the
motto In God We Trust appeared only
upon the scent piece and that the nited
States Government had never been will
ing to trust even the Almighty with more
than that amount
Senator Mcpherson Of New Jersey is
indignant over the rumor that he has been
slated for the Treasury Department, and
has himself been authorizing the report.
He is now quoted as declaring that he
has no idea whatever that MIR. Cleveland
( intends paying him that honor.
Bernhardts crazy lover, Benatre, has
just died in an asylum. lie was q minor
official of the municipality of Paris, and
| became enamored of the actress from see
ing her on the stage. Neglect of business
and imDloring letters followed, but they
did not affect her. He endured her con-
tempt, however, until she married NJ.
DanIaia. lie then had to be taken to BIZ
recovered from his hopeless passion.
Charles dc Lesseps, who was arrested
in Paris the other day i'll connection with
the Panama Canal scandal, is one of the
two sons Of the old Count de Lesseps by
his first marriage. He is now more than
80 years old, and was for long time the
Vice President of the Panama Canal
Company. Marius Fontane, who is also
under arrest, became the private secre-
tary of Countde Lesseps in 1851. Through
the influence Of the Count he became
General Secretary of the Suez and
Panama Canal Companies. NJ. Fontane
has devoted considerable time to litera-
ture also, and mas published several
novels, q volume OF poems, essays and q
history of the Suez Canal. His most pre-
tentiOus work, however, is his Universal
History" now i'll the course of pubIica-
ton. The history is to comprise seven
teen volumes. Of which five have APP
peared up to the present time.