The record-union., 1893-01-12
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
About Noted People the World
Over.
Social Events-Odd News Notes-Novel
Happenings-Strange Accounts
Places and People.

Mr.. Gould entered Wall street at the
age of % with s., GOO, which he had saved
no one knew by what rigid economy.
John Jacob Astor is to build house
on Fifth avenue and SiXty-fifth street,
New York, that will be noticeable among
elegant mansions.
One of the Oldest of British nOblemen
is the Duke of Northumberland, who is
nearly so. He has been a member of
five Cabinets and sat in Parliament for
twenty years before he succeeded to his
title.
Ex-Governor Campbell is too busy
managing the new company which owns
a valuable property in Canada, where as
bestos is produced from extensive mines,
to dabble in politics or accept place in
the Cleveland Cabinet.
Professor Simeon E. Baldwin of New
Haven, one of the ablest railroad lawyers
in Connecticut, will, it is said, resign mis-
lucrative office of counsel for the New
York and New England Railroad to be-
come Chief Justice of Connecticut.
A new opera composed by Signor An
sonic de Lorenzi, entitled "MahOmet H.,
was produced recently at the Malibran
Theater, Venice. The Fire Worshiper,"
the one act opera produced some time ago
dI IIlS IAOSSlul 4uGdlGT. Is ny bl6 odl1lb
composer.
This season showed Southern colleges
making hopeful progress in acquiring q
scientific knowledge Of football. The Uni
versity of North Carolina has done
specially well. The University of Nir-
glnia, however, the pioneers of the game
in the South, comes off ahead this year.
Coal loses considerable both in weight
and quality by exposure to the weather.
According to German eXperimenter, an
thracite and camel suffer least, but ordi-
nary bituminous coal depreciates nearly
one-thlrd in weight and nearly one-half
in gas-making quality after a long ex-
posure.
The daughter of the German Consul in
Baltimore, Miss BERTHE Won Lingen,
showed spirit becoming an American
girl at a reception the other evening.
Prince Leopold Won Isenburg was pres
ent, and expressed a desire that Miss Won
Lingen be presented to him. The young
lady's reply was: IF Prince Leopold Won
lsenburg wishes to meet me, let him do
as any American or other gentleman
would, and be brought to me-" and he
did so.
The condition of Queen Elizabeth of
Roumania, according to European papers,
Is still so serious that her return to
bucharest has been postponed indeti-
nitely. She prefers to remain in one of
the castles of her family in Germany and
devote herself to writing poetry. 1t is
said that she declined positively to return
to the Roumanian Capital to attend the
ceremonies following the wedding of the
! Crown Prince and the Princess Marie of
Edinburgh. Her majesty is still true to
Mdlle. Nacaresco, who won the heart of
the young Prince two years ago.
Judging by the summary of the pres
ent years bull-ring record in Spain, the
national sport is certainly not falling in
popularity. The number of frst-class
bull-hghts in important cities has been
2S9, the bulls killed being 1854. There
have also been 307 fights Of young bulls,
in which l, ,407 were slaughtered. Two
men picadors were killed. OF the espadas
and banderillos sixteen were more or
less seriously wounded. In each course
from six to eight bulls are done to death,
but recently in Madrid, in a fight which
extended two days, eighteen were fin
ished off.
The stern dignity of the United States
Senate Chamber must have experienced
a good deal Of a shock the other day
when Senator Hunton of Virginia was
discussing the everlasting McGarrahan
claim. He called the attention Of the
Senate to the fact that President Lincoln
signed McGarrahan's patent. Thad
ECUcNeuS, CtHdlOI I1uuLOu SdIU, aSKou
''that the President sign the id thing to
get rid of it," and President Lincoln sent
word to Mr.. Stevens that the id thing
was signed" And yet the Senator does
not appear to have been called to order
by the Vice-President.
The publishers of Herbert Spencer's
works have made public the figures Of
the total sales of the philosophers works
to date. The gross receipts from all his
al, ,o1 Il
years are 430, 900, an average Of So, $50 a
year for his life's work. First Principles"
has realized So, 400; Principles of Biology"
G5, 100: principles of Psychology" E7.
125; "Principles of Sociology" 95. .225;
Principles of Ethics, &c, $40. The smaller
books have run through many editions,
but the price is so low that the profits are
very small. 1t is worth noting that a
translation of the Thousand and One
Nights brought to it's late author a net
profit of GIG, 500.
Says the Boston Journal: While every
one is congratulating Chicago upon the
new school of manual training which
Mr.. Armour is to bestow upon it, there is
one provision in the gift which should
not be overlooked. Indeed it cannot be
too earnestly emphasized. That is. Mr..
Armour has taken care that his school
! shall be properly endowed. This is a mat
| ter that two many founders of new insti-
! tutions do not take into consideration,
Anxious, either for their own satisfaction
or glory, they establish schools or charit-
able institutions, and then leave it to the
public to provide for their support. They
| force upon the public obligations which
| that body has never had word to say
about assuming. This has proved a
| serious obstacle in education, and will
continue such until the injustice of such
pseudo-philanthrop is recognized.
When Philadelphia's City Hall was be-
| gun, in 1872, it was estimated that the
cost would not exceed 5000, 600, and that
| it would be completed in five years. 1t
has already cost Sl6,000,000 has been
twenty years under construction, and if
the commission were permitted to con-
| tinued its present policy it would absorb
another Sl6,000,000; and when the work of
constructing the building shall have been
| completed, say twenty years hence, its
| labors will only have well begun. for the
| Act creating the commission also pro-
vides that upon the entire completion of
/ the new building all the present build
| ings in Independence Square, except In
| dependence Hall, shall be removed and
| the ground placed in good condition by the
| commission as part of its duty under this
Act, and thereupon the said Independ-
ence Square shall be and remain public
walk and green forever"
a furniture factory is among the Iates;
projected additions to the already numer-
Gus industries Of Monterey, Mexico. The
company has been organized, a site has
been secured from the Government OF
! Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and the comnany
is to be exempt for fifteen years from all
city and municipal taxes on its capital,
| which is not to be less than $500, 600
The factory is to be in running order
within seventeen months. Several floul
mills on the Magdalena River, State oil
Sonora, Mexico. are doing a good busi-