The San Francisco call., 1896-02-21
m.PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

DIR. George Rodney Eden. Bishop of Dover, is
tne youngest prelate in the Church OF England.
He is 43 years of age.
j. Scott Harrison, the Democratic brother OF
the ex-President, has been elected member
OF the Kansas City School Board
Elbridge A. Towle, who died in Charestown
Jew days ago, had been a conductor on the
Boston and Maine Railroad nearly fifty years.
The state of Lord Elgin's health, it is said,
makes it probable that he viii resign the office
OF Viceroy OF India in the course OF few
weeks.
Inc only bust OF General Robert E. Lee that
was taken from life was made by Frederick
Volek, the sculptor, at about the time OF the
battle OF Charlottesville.
Plllsbury, the chess-player, eats one small
plate OF meat every day, drinks nothing but
milk, smokes rarely, sleeps eight TO twelve
hours daily and rides bicycle.
Sir Mackenzie Bowel, Premier of Canada,
pegan life as printers devil, worked at his
trade for many years, bought d newspaper
with savings and so got into politics.
General Weyler, the new captain-general of
Cuba, is said to have sprung from that peculiar
race, the German-Irish. being descended from
one OF the old Hessian families OF Ulster.
Mrs. Ezekiel Webster of Nashua, N. H, died
lew days ago. She was a sister-in-law of
| Daniel Webster, and survived her husband
sixty-seven years and her brother-in-law forty
four years.
Early widowhood appears to be the sad des-
tiny OF many members of the British royal
family. The Queen herself was widowed at
AZ. the Empress Frederick at 4S, the Princess
Beatrice at 80.
| A centenarian, who died recently in London,
had smoked steadily since he was Is years old.
lie began smoking, that is, the year before Ma
poleon was driven back from Moscow, and kept
IL up till after Jameson surrendered at kru-
| gersdorp.
frederick Price, who used to be the center
rush in the football team in the University Of
Georgia, is now fighting in the Cuban insur-
gent army. He gets $24 week, and he says
the work is not half so exciting and dangerous
as football.
s. r. Crockett has been telling how hard up
| he was when he was student in Edinburgh
lie lodged with friend over great coal sta
uon and he used to go out in the evening and
plck up the Goals which the carts had dropped
In the streets.
The news that Mrs. Hetty Green has con-
tracted the habit OF dressing VI ell has had
marked effect upon her mall She is in re-
celpt OF circulars from ressmakers, milliners
shoe merchants and other tradesmen, who had
long ago reached the conclusion that the
richest woman in America was not a target for
their shafts.
Ihe Rev. Alois Kaiser, cantor of the Oheb
Shalom Temple of Baltimore, has been re-
quested to write the music of the Twenty-fir ret
Psalm, TO be sung by q large mixed choir in the
Reformed Hebrew Congregation of Odessa.
May IL next, AT special religious services to be
held there in honor of the coronation of Car
N1enolas II, which is to take place that day at
Moscow.
Joao de Deus, who recently died at Lisbon.
was the most celebrated of modern Portuguese
poets. He was born in 1880 and studied law
at the University of Coimbra He devoted him
sell TO poetry and hailed as a second
Camoens. His published works are few ia
number. but his poems are remarkable for
originality OF thought and purity OF style and
! treatment.
| Mary Anderson was once urged to take to the
operatic stege by no less an artist than N.
Brignoh Heoverheard her singing by chance
an Irish ballad in hotel in Toronto Canada
! and, seeking an Introduction, told her that
her voice, with years training in Milan,
would win her success in grand opera The
great actress told him that she was satisfied
with her life as it was