The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-29

PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

A benevolent Englishman has just given
$4,000 toward the maintenance of the London
Cats Home.
Queen Vietoria's annual visit to the CONT
nent is said to cost on an average something
like $4,000 to 100000.
Both Mr. Gladstone and the late Lord Tenny-
son were, it is said favorable to the appoint
ment Of Sir Lewis Morris as Laureate.
Sir Augustus Harris has decided that here
after in no pantomime presented at the Drury
Lane Theater shall female role be played by
a man.
Mrs.W. H. Mier of Hunters Bottom, Ky had
three babies recently-a pair of girls and a
boy. woman living near there can say, how
ever: 'Huhl That's nothing. Tve had four
myself"
Sarasate, the violinist, is remarkably simple
in his manner of life Though his apartments
in London are magnificent, his food is always
of the most homely kind, no better than that
of peasant
Miss Caroline V. Bernard, whose mother, the
late Caroline Richings Bernard, was famous
singer twenty years ago, is the contralto of the
choir of the First Presbyterian Church of
Philadelphia.
When in Rome signor Crispi has an escort of
$12, 500 year. When he leaves the city the
| expense is increased to three or four times
that amount.
Mrs Elizabeth Duane Gillespie of Phladel-
phia, a great-granddaughter of Benjamin
Franklin, was rs years old on Thursday, and
her friends marked the day by giving her a
purse of $4,000.
Melville E. ingalls,, president of the Cleye-
land, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Pail
road, is Maine man who began his career as
a schoolteacher. He entered the railway SER
vice in 1870, when he was % years old.
Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson gives it as
his fixed opinion that every man and every
woman should attain the age of 100. Accord
ing to Sir Benjamin the would-be centenarian
must never smoke nor drink; must eat very
little meat, and he must not work by artificial
light.
Durham White Stevens, the cou nselor of the
Japanese legation in Washington, is an Ameri-
can who resided many years in Japan and be-
came thoroughly acquainted with its language,
history and customs. Mr.. Stevens is thor
oughly American, but IN diplomacy Japan's
righthand man.
Hon. A. W. Payne of Peno bscot, Me-, has at
tended every term of the Supreme Court at
Bangor for fifty-nine years, with the exception
OF one winter, Wnen illness kept MIN at nome.
He was on hand at the opening of the court
last week with case for trial. He has argued
cases at every term OF court except the one
when he was i'll.
In Canon Rawnsley's recently published BIZ
ography OF the late Harvey Goodwin, Bishop
of Carlisle, the following is quoted as the IA
nous Englishman's opinion of President
Cleveland: "a very powerful looking man
with large head, and neck like bull, who
would be able to get through any amount of
work without fuss or fatigue; bright-eyed, in
telligent man of the rougher type of manhood
but more agreeable in manner"
James Gordon Bennett, editor and proprietor
of the New York Herald, spends the greater
part OF his time in Paris attending to the pro-
duction of the continental edition of his
paper. There he may be usually found in his
| office at 40 Avenue des Champs Elysees, the