The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-08
GOSSIP.

Mr.. Lowell has been asked to give the ad-
dress at the proposed memorial service in hon
or of Longfellow at Berlin.
Mr.. Cross, it is said, has abandoned the idea
Of writing biography of his late wife, Marian
Evans, or George Eliot.
DIR. Hammond says when you stick your
finger in your ear the roaring sound you hear
is the circulation in your finger.
Count Geza Itchy, the one-armed Hun
garian pianist, has accepted an invitation
from the Prince of Wales to appear in sew
eral concerts in London.
The venerable Geo. Mueller, who is now
travelling in Palestine, recently made anaddress
to the lepers who live in little colony out
side the gates of Jerusalem
tits a mistaken fancy to suppose that tho
leaves OF plants grow out Of the ground
They extract from the air what carbon they
need and thus attain their growth. In other
words it may be said plants live on air.
The late M. Littre, through an atheist, was
man of noblest and purest life. "He is a
saint without Cod" is the epigrammatic
description which Lamartne's niece gave of
him not long ago.
The next novel in the Ground Robin" Sc
ries is story of Philadelphia at the Centennial
celebration time, and is called "Dorothea,"
The most successful volume in this series is
said to have been "a Nameless Nobleman."
The Empress of Austria has invented sys-
tenn of hooks by which she can instantly de-
tach the skirt of her habit from the body in
case Of fall from horse, thus avoiding all
danger of being dragged along the ground.
Louisville has voted to give the State ST.
ooo, 900 to locate the Kentucky capital in that
city. 1t might be profitable for States to have
their capitols on wheels, and show them annu-
ally where greatest inducements were offered
tits within range of possibility that the mania
furnished in the Wilderness was species #
lichen, which sometimes still comes to bless
the famine Stricken in that country, where
droughts, sand and Moslem rapacity combine
to render life all but endurable.
There has been some discussion OF late in
London about the future of Italian opera. 1t
has been said that the thorough realism of the
age will kill music. The tendency upon the
dramatic stage is certainly to appeal more to
the eye than to the ear, as is shown by the
gorgeous spectacular dramma which are being
produced everywhere, and by the attention
given to furniture and other fittings of the
stage. But it is hard to believe that a time
will come when the whole world will be full
of realistic Zolas, who will refuse to succumb
to the charms of music.
1t is estimated that in the Southern States
there are 1877 cotton mills with capital of
$4,000, 900 and producing SALTS, 600 Of
this amount Georgia has A mills, with a cap
ital of $4,000. producing $1,000, 900;
North Carolina, 50 lis, with capital of ST.
$4,000, and producing $1,000. 900; South
and producing S. 9oo, 200; and Virginia, II
mills, with capital OF $I,2so,ooo, producing
So, 5oo,ooo 1t will be seen that four States
together have I24 mills out of 1877, capital of
$Io,935.ooo out of Sic, oos 900, and produce
$I7, 900 out of $2A775,ooo. This is a
very fine showing for the South Atlantic States.