The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-12
PERSONAL.

Inventor Edison is building an
electric locomotive to be used on an
underground railway in England.
President Arthur is said to have
sixty pairs of shoes. Gentlemen who
would like to be in Mr.. Arthur's shoes
are doubtless persons of great leisure.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, tells d
Chicago reporter that he intends to
go out of politics at the end of his
term. He favors Mr.. Tilden's candi-
dacy.
David Neal, the young Chicago
painter who lives in Munich, is placed
by the leading German critics side by
side with Max, Pilotky, Kaulbach and
Zimmerman.
Senator Jones, of Florida, was the
honored guest at banquet given by
the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Messrs.
Parnell, Sexton, Healy and L. P.
O'ConnOr were present.
The Duchess of Sutherland has
signed the total abstinence card at
Canon Wilberforce's temperance meet
ings, and announced her intention of
wearing the blue ribbon.
1t is stated that Mr.. John Russell
Young, United States mihisle r to
China, is engaged in collecting ma
terial for work on China, which he
hopes to publish in two years.
Senator o. H. Plat, of Connecti-
cut, having been offered large re-
tanning fee to take hold of the forth
coming parallel road litigation, de-
clined, on the ground that so long as
he was a United States Senator the
duties of that Office would require
his attention.
Reno, New, boasts of the boss pio-
who first came to California in 1912
on the frigate United States, COM
manded by Com. Jones. He was a
sailor on the vessel at the time. Jones
landed at Monterey and took posses
sion of the country.
A. M. Clapp, who used to be public
printer in Washington, is an applicant
for the vacant city postmastership.
Clapp is now an old, gray-haired man.
but his, passion for office-holding
amounts to an absolute mania. Since
leaving the public printing Office he
has offered himself for nearly every
appointiVe office in sight.
Says the New York Evening Post:
" Exactly how many paupers and
tramps there may be in the British
isles we do not know, but there must
be a good many thousands, and it is
difficult to conceive a more dastardly
outrage than an attempt on the part
OF friendly government, in time
of profound peace, to deposit this pau
per population on our shores"
The Cincinnati News Journal, re-
ferring to the comfort which the enc
mics of Mr. Pendleton appear to find
in the fact that his friend Thompson
was not continued at the head of the
Ohio Democratic committee, aptly re-
marks that the enemies of Mr.. Pen
dleton are accustomed to take great
deal of comfort out of very small
dishes with very small spoons, the
merest grain at time.
When lithotomy became necessary
in the person of Louis XVI, expert
mentS were made on several corpora
villa, in the persons of humble suf-
ferers, who We're operated on by
Chief Surgeon Felix, in presence of
Fagon, the kings physician, at the
house of Louvois, the minister of
cumstance seduously concealed from
Louis, with whom Felix succeeded,
but the surgeon was so much agi-
tated that he became permanently |
subject to nervous tremor, and disa-
bled for life a patient, friend, on
whom he was operating next day.
Henry Watterson goes wild over
Mary Anderson, as follows: Her
'Gatlatea' is benison-like a babe
that opens it's wide eyes for a mo-
ment on the world and leaves it with
a sigh; like a flower that breathes in
fragrance for day upon the earth of
which it is not; like grand strain of
music that floats and throbs at twi-
light, and sinks away into the dim
recesses of which we dream, but in
which we cannot W TX; too pure for
the world, yet leaving behind mem
Dry, a perfume, harmony, tenderer,
sweeter, more exalting, etc.