The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-11-22
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT.

After citizens meeting the city council of
Austin has decided to give the rioht Of wav m
Congress Avenue Tor railway track to con-
vey rock to build the new capitol.
A. Wnslow has been appointed U s.
commissioner at Laredo.
postal treaty has been arranged between
the u ). and Belgium for the exchange of
money orders.
HE Galveston News and Houston Post
will now fall back upon the eastern question or
the 'cloture' for mental exercise.
According to the Medical Times and Ga
Lete. the oyster contains ii per cent Of flesh
forming material, this being almost precisely
the amount obtained from the egg. Lean
Deef contains but per cent more Of muscle
making matter and but per cent more of fat
han the oyster. Among the MANY thousand
species of shell fish there are only two mr.
| three known to be poisonous, vet but few
kinds, such as cocklef perlwinklcs and mus
cles, are used besides clans and oysters. The
consumption of periwir kles in London often
amounts to 1000 bushels weekly.
The property of great men who have passed
away soon falls into the hands of strangers
William Cullen Bryant's fayolite house AZ
Roslyn, N. Y, has not been occupied bv his
family: Mr.. Irvlng's much-loved ..Sunnyside
is held bv strangers; Bayard Taylor's Gee
darcroft' is OCCUPIED by lis recent purchaser:
the picturesque "ldlewild' of Mr.. Willis has
been twice in the market, and DR.. Holland's
'Bonnicastle" at the Thousand Islands is
| held for sale.
Ii may interest people of literary tastes to
Learn that biography of George Eliot is
| about to be published. The writer is Miss
Math'lde Blind, and the work is to be the in
| ttal volume of the forthcoming series of EN-
| lnent Women,' to be edited by Mr.. Jobn II
| Ingram. The volume will give. for the first
| time. faithful account of George Elot's
early life, and OF much OF her unknown liter
airy labors. and furnish new and interesting
correspondence.
Lady Crassey has contracted for the hpId-
ing of sailing ship that will stand without a
rival for curious shape among the ships of our
times. |; 'S I've p feet l0ng, ari f. haye
the lines OF q cerrain viking ship rcceutly Ne
| come known, and Of which model w,s
shown at ar exhibition held not long ago in
England. During the August week at Cowes
| Roads next year Lady Brassey intends ia y.w
| and sail in This remarkable boat Two of II.
features will he more modern than its lines.
IT vii he ugger-rigged, and will Lave SID
inf kc~l.
VunCary is mourning the 'eath of Iob,r,
Aranv, who wrote some Cf the finest b,u,,I-
and eric poems in his language. One of
'h"r. known as the Glove Of Sp,di," Az Emo
heh correspondent says, may probably b.
nIac,d side by side with tie best Of whaf l. ,s
been written Of the kind in any Ianrnace :"
Aranv was complete master of his o.,
tongue, and soinc "F his Shakesperian ,rans-
in!i"nS. among the n'"rcSt approaches In ~.
"~iGnal that have ever been made. Ts.r 90
fav"rites on the !!nrGar'an sage. Cror,ds
7r" always C" ~ W wv The production Of b;s
""idsumn,~ T Ni,h.s Dream. 's
holm Mcr'arll has mrde von.,.rc,,,
cess with his n c1m"srins, p, h,ss;r -,
sith The manager of the New Yorl ,,,s;. ~