The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-11
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.


Mrs. General Grant has arrived in
Santa Barbara Most of her residence
N California this winter will be in San
Francisco
Cincinnati feels that her reception of
Liberty bell on its return to Philadel-
| phia was the most demonstratiye 1t
has had during its entire six months
absence from Independence hall.
Andrew Lang says of the late Pro
lessor Jouett that his face always
made people think of a cherub's, it
was SO round and full and childlike.
Though famous as a host so much so
that invitations to his dinner parties
were in great demand, he was often
lsilent and not only shy himself but
the cause of shyness in others.
In spite of his eighty years Verdi
| takes a horseback ride of nearly two
hours duration after dinner every day,
and on his return plays game OF
cards with some member of his fam
lily All the musical work he does is
accomplished during the morning, ana
the talks as confidently Of his next
lopera as if he were half a century
younger than he is. His leisure time,
apart from the occupations mentioned
above. is devoted to the reading OF po-
Ietry and philosophy
/ John f. Russell. the Democratic can
ididate for governor in Massachusetts,
admits the truth of a newspaper rumor
that he practiced his speeches out IN
the fields MY voice was weak and
unresponsive at the outset explains
he in referring to the matter, and
went to work at once to correct the
difficulty. There is a large pond
short distance from my house, ana
lposted a man on one side OF II, Whlie
| I stayed on the other. We shouted at
1,A
ipractice my vocal cords, which mad
mot been subjected to the strain OF
public speaking for nearly a year, pc
lcame strong, flexible, and responsive.
lSince then there has been no failure
of the voice.
Germany has lost another prominent
/ military commander in the deaIh ol
General George Won Kameke, formerly
minister of war. He was born IN lSlH
and, after a thorough educatlon' WIS
assigned to work on the general stall
| In the war of 1866 with Austria he gam
| ed the order Pour lie Merite. In the
war with France he commanded the
Fourteenth division, taking part in the
battles of Spicheren, Colombey and
! Gravelotte. After the surrender OF
Metz he conducted the sieges OF Die
denhofen, Mezieres, Montmedy and
| Longy. In 1873 he succeeded Field
|
department, and did excellent service.
Since his retirement in 1888 he had
lived quietly on his estates.
In connection with the recent an
announcement of the birth of Queen
Victorias seventeenth grandchlld, 1t is
said that purely family occurrences of
this kind are kept written up from day
to day in vast album. This is sys-
tematically examined, in order that the
10 craS
which is tradition with the royal
family, may not be overlooked. In her
own childhood the queen was very
punctilious in recognizing the birth an
niversary and other such festival days
in the life of her uncle, George ",
and she still possesses under lock and
key at Windsor the last birthday pres
ent she made to him. In recent years
she has come to prize very highly any
such intimations of affection that reach
her from the second and third genera
tons of her own descendants.