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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Newspaper Gossip Concerning Men and Women of Greater or Less Fame.

Sentor Call, of Florida, writes his speeches on old envelopes and circus bills.

Cuatro Dedos, the famous bull fighter, cleared $40,000 during his recent trip in Mexico.

Stepniak, the celebrated Nihilist author, will visit the United States in September.

Mr. Tilden, according to The London News, owned property in Engalnd to the value of £138,000.

Senator Vance has named his new home "Gombroon," after the capital of De Quincy's imaginary kingdom.

Miss Anna Goeble is the captain of a femal militia company in Savannah, Ga. The privates number thirty-two, and are well drilled.

George Francis Train is said to have recently received and declined an offer of $10,000 from a Chicago syndicate for a series of thirty lectures.

Gen. Boulanger's daughter is about to become a nun, and his enemies say it is a shrewd device of his to curry favor with the clericals.

Ex-Governor Rufus Bullock, of Georgia, says the southern people are just discovering what the west learned a quarter of a century ago, that railroads must be the pioneers of development.

The Rev. Phillips Brooks, who is preaching in and about London during his vacation abroad, fairly takes the breath of droning English churchgoers by his rapid delivery. The queen has "commanded" the distinguished American divine to appear before her at Windsor.

The Marquis de Leuville, who was going to marry Mrs. Frank Leslie, but did not, is now reported to be the son of a London hatter. He bought has title and coat of arms at a good round figure, and the trifty old gent works in the coat of arms as a trade on hat linings.

Jonathan II. Green, who forty years ago was widely known as the "Reformed Gambler," and who had written four books on the evils of gambling, including a "confession," is still living in Philadelphia, and has just celebrated his 75th birthday. He is still hearty, and able to work steadily at his trade as a painter.

At the French bazar held in London during the present season the wheel of fortune was presided over by Miss Chamberlain, of the United States. She is no longer designated as "the American beauty," not that her charms are fading, but because other American roses are blooming in England's social parterre, and sharing royal favors.

Miss Grace Howard, of New York city, has gone to Dakota, where she has established an industrial school for the Crow Creek Indians. Miss Howard has not gone out as a missionary, but to teach the Indian women to cut and make clothing and household articles for themselves and their families. Indian girls, Miss Howard says, do not make good servants, but they are willing and anxious to learn to help themselves as native born American girls do.

Buffalo Bill was never a member of the Nebraska legislature, says The Omaha World. He ran once in Buffalo county against a fellow of the name of Ashburton and received his certificate of election. Ashburton contested the seat, however, and won, but before the case was decided Cody had sent in his resignation and made ready to embark in the show business. He would not have served if he had been elected, and he could not have served if he had not resigned; so it is apparent that no man in Nebraska has been further from a legislative membership than Buffalo Bill.

The Redo Journal says: "When Mr. Gibeon took charge of the Pyramid agency he concluded to give names to all the Indian chidlren, and has named them after his friends or public men. The little folk are proud of their American names and like to hear the history of the great men they are named after. Among the boys there is Mark Twain, Professor Young, Bill Gibson, Andy Jackson, Pete Dunn, John Logan, James G. Fair, J. P. Jones, George Cassidy, Jeff Davis, and many others. The girls have an Emma Nevada, Adelina Patti, Clara Morris, Ella Bender, Laura Holman, Maud Doane, Lilly Snyder, and others."

Mrs. Jeanette M. Thurber, whose name is konwn all over the country in connection with the National Opera Company, is a handsome brunette with large hazel eyes and dazzling teeth. [She wears her hair combed high off her forehead in the style known as that of la pompadour. Her skirts are like the skirts of any other woman's dress, but she wears a coat and waistcoat of the most ultra tailor mado style, with a turned down linen collar held together with a loosely tied silk tie. Her watch is made of Egyptian scarabe, and runs through a buttonhole from waistcoat pocket to waistcoat pocket. On her shapely hands she wears a number of curious and valuable rings. In the winter Mrs. Thurber lives in New York. In the summer she rusticates in the Catskills, in a very primitive style of mountain cottage, which she calls "Lotos Land." Her writing paper from "Lotos Land" is made to represent birch bark, and the imitation is so good that one might think she had torn it off the nearest tree rather than that it came from a stationer's shop.