The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-31

One of the most promising young American
painters now residing in Italy is Mr.. H. X.
Newman, whose picture of Venice taken at
early morning is described in Galignani' S
Messenger as follows: "The sky, of that
peculiar blue filled with sufl'used light such as
is only seen at sea, over a large expanse Of
country, or at Venice, is touched with feathery
clouds which indicate slight upper current of
wind. The horizon is enveloped in haze
that foretells day of intense and palpitatng
heat. The gondoas and heavy sails of the
quaint fishing boats scarcely move in the faint
air, and all their reflections, and those Of the
lovely Salute church and the tall red campa.
nile of San Giorgio Maggiore, are rendered
with a mastery hand"
The ex-Empress Eugene is living tempo
rarily in London, and spending much of her
time among the poor. This gloomy picture
is now presented by one who sees her every
day: ''The tall, erect and stately figure is
bent and dropping; the queenly air is akin to
that of the mendicant; the fair locks in their
luxuriant wealth of tresses are white as snow
and thin and scanty in appearance; the large,
expressive and animated eyes, half vi rlet and
half blue, are gray, watery and leaden-iook-
ing; the oval face is wrinkled and worn by
care, and the beautiful face is supplanted by a
sepulchral whlteness."
On Ottoman newspaper has tersely summed
up the net results of the French campaign in
Tunis, finding them to be these; for France
glory, typhus, diarrhna. For the Arabs
civilization, famines, masSacres. General total
death and misery. 1t then protests against
method of intoxicating a beneicient civlliza-
ton by ravagng the harvests, cutting down
r.. H. x~~l.~
the homes, and massacreing the old men, wo-
men and children of population which was
living in happy ignorance of the laws of mod
be the only gamer.
A German painter once obtained permission
to paint some great court ceremony in which
the Emperor William and his son Fritz were
the central figures. The emperor asked the
artist to show him the sketch of his picture.
On examining it he noticed that the crown
prince was represented standing with one foot
on the steps of the thrown dais, He at once
asked bystander for pencil and altered the
sketch, which was returned to the audacious
artist with the significant words, ''Not yet,"
written under the figure Of the prince.
Vanity Fair, of London, makes General
Schenck the author of the present English
mania for poker playing in private life. But
General Schenck. in amiably writing out the
rules of the game at the request of Lady Wal
degrave, had no idea, nor did the lady have
any, that poker playing would become the
after dinner rage of English society, that a
youth just of age would lose five times
more than his yearly income. or that one
d ner out could rs e GIo,ooo last year.
Betty and the Baby are having sentiment
al run in some of the cities. They constitute
the family of Mason, the bad marksman. In
Baltimore and Washington nickel subScrip-
tions are being received for their benefit. A tin
box marked Betty and the Baby" in the
counting room OF the Baltimore American, re-
ceived $50 nickel pieces on Friday.