The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-09
GENERAL AND Personal.

The historian Bancroft's hobby is roses.
He has them in every room in his house.
The question of the voluntary union OF the
United States and Canada is being preached,
theoretically, in Canada. ..
Fred Warde lost $Io,o in his tour last
season but has recovered the loss this season
and is now making money fast.
Chicago has killed six of her policemen in
the last eighteen months, and the force was al
together too small at the beginning.
The Boston Traveller mentions the mourn
full fact that not one ofthe masters OF the BoS-
ton public schools was born in that city.
Robert Morris, colored lawyer, Of Boston,
recently died worth $1,000 His practice
was almost entirely limited with Irish clients.
Paris doctors are now agreed that person
must fall distance of at least 600 feet IN Or
der to be unconscious when the collision &C.
surs
Kate Macy was convicted on November 80,
| in Hungary, of having murdered 10 persons,
and was hanged. 1t is thought she murdered
as many more.
In Alsace the authorities annually publish a
list of the names of all the resident drunkards.
Such custom might have salutatory effect
| in San Antonio.
Miss Mary Anderson is going to commence
dramatic study next year. Miss Mary has
been wasting several precious years in trying
to act without study.
Vanderbilt proposes by giving S., ooo, 600
art gallery to New York to ease conscience
burdened with disasters due TO economical
railroad management.
Textbooks have been abolished in many
northern schools of instruction and teachers
transformed into living, moving, talking text
books to which the pupils listen.
A tough old gander, in Lake Como, Flori-
da, whipped five foot alligator in fair hight,
last week, in his own element. He is cock
eyed and they have named him "Ben Butler"
So far this has not been an encouraging
winter for ice cutters, but the manufacturers
of artificial ice are laying up their treasures
right straight along, without regard to the
weather.
Theobaud Bauer, the Graco- Roman wrest-
| Ter, claims, in an interview with the Post
Dispatch, that Senator Conkling, of the Curl,
was once regular attendant ION the quiet
at wrestling matches in New York.
The British government has determined
that whenever it finds any Irishman ''intimi-
dating" it, it is going to run him in. The
facility with which solitary Irishman can in
timidate the British government is astonishing
Another! And now the Courier Journal re-
duces to 2 cents and becomes an educator Of
the great majority, who can not afford either
the cents for large newspaper or the time
required for finding what they desire to read
in an encyclopaedia sheet.
"Gath," the fertile blow-hard of the press,
has discovered that James Russell Lowell is
the "man of destiny upon whom will settle
the republican presidential nomination in 'S4.
| Cath" it will be observed, entirely oyer
looks the importance of the Irish vote.
The mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, disgraced
himself by intenupting an address by the
youthful, beautiful and brilliant advocate OF
woman's rights, Miss Phoebe Couzins, and
was promptly knocked down by stalwart
laborer employed in the Union Pacific machine
shops.
At diAner party composed of prominent
republicans in Washington the other day il
was agreed that Senator Edmunds was the
most available man for the republican nomi-
nation for the presidency in 1884. Since this,
however, president boom has set in, which
puts a new aspect on affairs.
The Stockton (Nevada) Mail spins yarn
about Senator Jones losing $4,000 at poker
to high-toned club sharps in Washington and
then winning $500, 900 by introducing to the
club gambler from Virginia City whom he
represented to be a Nevada millionaire
"There are tricks in all trades out ours"
DIR. Tanner tasted to prove physical pos
sibIity. In St. Louis a monomaniac nameC
Wilson is fasting to apotheosize himself anC
set seal of supernaturalism on a mass o
: pargon he terms new revelation. Every
thing falls into the hands of religious fanatics
and is often used to Subseve their pecuniarI
; purposes.
An English railway company advertiSes a!
'missing" seven frst-claSs, two composite
eight second-class, and eleven third-claSs car
riages, four passengers luggage vans, and (
E horse box If they are anywhere in Eng
land it ought not to be difficult to find them
Wonder if anybody has run off with an En-
glish depot lately!
The Chicago reporters are so anxious t
get up sensation in the Langtry bushes
, that they tried to steal letter addressed b,
the Jersey Lily to Fred Gebhard, in New
York, given by her to bell boy of the hote
, to mail. Mrs. Langry had better be a littl,
more careful about her correspondence Will
she remains in Chicago.
i A story is going the rounds Of the press tc
} the effect that Henri Labouchere, editor o
4 London Truth paid man named Pigeol
II, 900 for his wife, with whom the Englisl
scandal-monger bad become infatuated while
she was playing as unmarried Miss Hepriett:
Hodgson at a London theatre. Mrs. PigeoI
is the woman who, as a cicerone, accom-
panied lissome Lily Langtry, the Jersey lily