The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-03
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
General Booth is planning to send colo
of 10, 600 persons TO Canada.

General Booth is planning to send colony
of 10, 600 persons TO Canada.
Men Gey Ching, attache of the Chinese en-
bassy at Washington, rides bicycle.
Louis Kossuth called the Sermon on the
Mount the peoples constitution.
Maude Howe Elliott says Salvini once told
her that he was always i'll and unnerved the day
after playing Othello.
Ian Maclaren is the literary lion of London.
He writes delightful short stories, each of
which is as meaty as the average 400-page
novel.
George Du Murrier may sail for this country
He is under strong temptation from syndicate
to follow in Trilby's large but beautiful foot
prints.
The Earl of Arundel, heir to the Dukedom of
Norfolk the Oldest, proudest and richest peer
age in England, is deaf dumb, blind and an
imbecile.
One OF the sons of the Ameer of Afghanistan
will arrive IN London early in May, attended
by very large suite. He will have home es-
pecially engaged for him.
The Messrs sarasin, the two Swiss explorers,
who have been in Borneo for some years, have
found certain islands that have never before
been visited by Europeans.
Herr Dr. Vogel, for many years editor-in-
chief of the Kolnische-Zeitung the famous
Cologne Gazette, died the other day in Cologne.
He was one of the most influential men in the
city.
Prince Bismarck has received more than q
million congratulatory letters and postal cards
and nearly IL 900 kilograms. 1t is to be hoped
horx
papers.
George Augustus Sala is greatly interested in
dress, considered from the historic standpoint,
and has to-day the largest collection of pattern
books and fashion plates of any man in Eng
land.
Fernand de Rodays and Antonin Perivier,
editors of the Paris Figaro, recently gave an
elaborate entertainment in the great hall of
the newspaper building in honor of the young
King of Servia.
General Martinez Campos who has been sent
over from Spain to subdue the Cuban insurrec-
ton, is 81 years old He has been an officer
for nearly forty years, and during half that
time the first soldier of Spain.
On the goth of May fifty years will have
elapsed since Sir John FRANKLIN left Green
hithe on his Inflated expedition toward the
north pole. Commemorative meetings will be
held in London and Edinburgh on that date.
Edward Burne-Jones, the weIl-known English
artist, acquired his art without teacher. His
pictures are nearly all restricted in color to
curiously varied tones of purple and rudy
bronze, of which Burne-Jones is particularly
fond.
Governor William C. Oates of Alabama is one
of the few distinguished men of this country
who has always fought for what he got. He is
widely known as a fighter, shams diplomacy
and possesses logged tenacity that commands
the admiration of all who know him.
General Rafael Reyes, who commanded the
Government troops who put down the insur-
rection in Colombia, is a man of action, with a
keen, dark face, love of adventure and q
wealth of experience in revolutions. A regi-
ment of Indians, attracted by his magnetism,
served with him in the rebellion of 1885.
Prince William of Hesse recently risked his
life to save a woman from drowning. The
woman had intended to commit suicide and
had plunged into the river Woog at Darmstadt.
The Prince, a man of so, was walking along the
bank at the time and at once jumped in and
brought the woman to the shore. When she
had been placed in safe hands he hurried to
town and found her husband.