The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-10
miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
Upward of So, ooo, 900 in real and personal
property is disposed of by the will Of Clark
SON Potter.
A four-Year 3d. 100000 contract for a tun-,
mel under the St. Lawrence at Montreal has
been awarded. ..a
1t is rumored that Harvard college has re-
ceived donation of $Ioo, 900 from wealthy
gentleman of Boston.
The ice cone at the base of the Yosemite
Falls ir 200 feet high. There are numerous
visitors and there are ffty-nine residents IN
the valley.
The widow of General Custer has no pen
sion, and has been painting plaques for liv-
ing. Some of her friends are moving to Sc
cure some national relief for her necessities.
Roscoe Conkling, in declining an invitation
to the Albany Grant Clubs banquet, says:
81 am industriously at work at my profession,
and the neglect of past years constrains me to
be asslduouS now.'
, New York hotel-keeper who has just
been robbed by clerk confesses that he is
puzzled how to guide his choice of men to fill
positions of trust. He has been robbed three
times before by cashiers, all of whom pre-
tended to be pious young men. This time he
went in blind, and took in the first man that
came along.
A French cook of merit, recently employed
by VIM. H. Vanderbilt, has gone to France to
try to recover what he claims to be
his inheritance. He is about 10 years old,
calls himself Frederick II. desmond, gives
himself out as the son of the late Admiral
desmond, and tells remarkable stories of his
experiences and adventures.
The Russian Empress, who is in delicate
state of health, met with an unpleasant acct
dent the other day. She was riding in sleigh
at Gatschna, when the horses became fright
ened, and running away upset the sledge and
dragged the beautiful Dagmar for short dis
lance, leaving her at last in the snow. She
rose laughing and brave as ever.
The administration of the Berlin exchange
have resolved to put an end to the excessive
''bawling" by the criers and other subordi-
nate members and hangers-an of that institu-
ton. A notice to that effect has been duly
posted and contraventions will be punished
for shorter or longer expulsion from the pre-
cincts of the Temple of Mammon.
The pretended Baron de Lage, who has
been condemned to ten years imprisonment
at Basic, Switzerland, is an American, and
one of the worst imposters living on the Amer
lean continent. He was convicted for obtain
ing $4,000 francs on French government
bonds which were entitled to 3 francs, but
raised by him so that they were seemingly en-
titled to 1000 francs interest. When arrested
he had 10000 francs in gold and other valu-
ables obtained by fraud.
1t is asserted that the nutritiousness of ap-
that they are far more nourishng than pota-
toes. Cornish workmen say that they can
work better on baked apples than on potatoes.
There is dish in Cornwall called squad pie,
made of mutton, with slices of potato, apple
and onion, and strenge as it may seem to
many, it is excellent. Cornwall is the country
for meat pies, as the miners carry their dinners
with them in that form.
1.-THE Jeannette" party is certainly having
hard time of it. Three boat-loads of Of
ficers and men left the vessel, and two of
them reached the mouth of the Lena River.
The other boat, Lieut.. Chipp's, has not been
heard from. The two crews which arrived on
the Siberian coast seem to have reached land
without knowledge of each other, or at least
10 nave separated Oh inc oVeflanu journey
south, and Lieut.. Belongs company has not
turned up. The advance guard Of the other
party has arrived at Irkutsk, and the found
are busy, with what assistance they can get,
looking for the lost. 1t would. be a melan-
choly ending of the expedition to have the
major part of its members perish in the wilds
of Siberia, after having safely gone through
two winters amid the Arctic ice. The SINH
larity between such fate and that which
overlook Franklin is striking. There is a sure
way to escape that calamity hereafter, and
that is to leaye the north pole take care Of