The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

William Morris the English poet, reioices in
the possession of prodigious memory. Given
fair start on any sentence in Dickens works,
he will complete that sentence with very little
deviation from textural accuracy. Were every
copy of "Pickwick Papers" destroyed to-day,
William Morris could write the book almost
word for word as it now stands.
Rev. Calvin Lathrop, noted Methodist d.
vine, has Just celebrated his 91st birthday at
Someryille, n. Y. The aged clergyman had
many thrilling experiences in his earlier life,
which, gathered together and put in book
form, would make unusually interesting read
ing. He was a '49er, and was engaged in dig
ging gold when not preaching. He has also
twice experienced shipwreck.
Albert George Sandman, the new governor
of the Bank of England, was born in 1888. He
is wine merchant. He is one of her Majesty S
lieutenants for the city of London, aud was
Sheriff of Surrey in 1872. In 1856 he married
a daughter of the late Vicomte ds Tore da
Moncorro, Portuguese Minister to England.
Since the assassination of N. Carnot, the
cutler at Cette who sold the dagger to the
murderer has, it is said, been inundated with
orders for weapons of similar pattern and size
to that used on the fatal night at Lyons. The
orders come from al parts of the world, some
body in Brussels having asked for 500 daggers.
The South Wales News has the following
amusing paragraph: sit is calculated that
some 10000 900 colored photographs of Queen
Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales
are produced annually, and find a ready sale
all over the world-eyen in America"
The German Emperor's imperial train cost
$750,00o and took three years to construct.
two nursery-carriages. The reception saloon
contains several pieces of statuary, and each of
the sleeping-cars is fitted with a bath.
On the field of Waterloo topaz seal, set in
gold, was recently found, bearing the arms and
motto of Viscount Darlington. 1t belonged to
Ensign Darlington, who was killed at Quatre
Bras, June 10, 1915, and had lain undiscov-
cred for eighty years.
I Euphrates Esculapius Endymion McJimsey
is the name of clerk IN the Recorders Office
at Marysville, Mo. He signs his rather euphoni--
Gus name with a big rubber stamp. His
mother was student of oriental history and
mythology.
The house in which Pierre Lott lives when in
France Is the identical one in which he was
born forty-ive years ago. Many of the rooms
there are furnished in the style of habitations
lie has OCCupleu III turkey, Algeria, AMMAN
and other lands.
Professor Joseph Emerson, who has been
senior professor of Greek at Beloit College,
Wis, since 1S4S, is cousin of the late
Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is now about "A
years of age, and is known among the boys as
cold Zeus.'
The latest pretender to the throne" OF
France is Mohammedb en-Bourbon. He claims
descent froHe one of the Bourbon Princes who
went to Algiers at the time of Louis XIV. He
is cattle-dealer at Rougie, in Algeria.
King Humbert of Italy is an amateur cook,
as well as an expert fireman. 1t is said that
he can manipulate grill and manage q
kitchen range as well as any one in his chefs
department.
Ex-Congressman Stevens of Massachusetts,
has restored the wages of the 1900 operators in
his woolen-mills to the rates which prevailed
before the recent dull times