The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-25
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
Connecticut now has but one active gin dis
tillery.
In consequence of an unusually heavy fall Of
snow, railway traffic is almost entirely stopped
in Russia.
Drunkenness is increasing in France just in
proportion as wine is ceasing to be the ma
tional drunk.
There are now I, $40 employees in the Amer
lean Pension Office, and the force is announced
to be complete.
The bronze panels have been replaced in
position on the four sides of the Temple Bar
Memorial, London.
The Queen of Burmah has occasioned great
disappointment at the Mandalay court by
giving birth to another daughter.
Anew Hampshire lady had habit of cart
Ring pins in her mouth. She one day swal-
lowed eight She is slowly dying in grea-
agony.
A Russian lady has just bestowed 10000
roubles upon her countrywomen to be used in
giving medical training to those DESTROYS Of
becoming physicians.
Official returns show that the Canadian
revenue for the first five months OF the present
fiscal year amounted to SIS, $685. 900, and the
expenditure to Sill 100000.
A criminal has been executed in Copenha-
gen by the old. fashioned way of beheading in
public. The executioner bungled terribly,
and aroused the public indignation.
The estimate for new streets in London pro-
posed during last year alone is nearly $3, Co.,
600. This is apart from Thames bridges or
tunnels east of London bridge.
The value of the seal and whale fisheries
for 1852, so far as concerns the Dundee ships,
IL in number, is $5I5, ooo being decrease of
$4,000 as compared with last year.
A jet black full-grown hare was shot re-
Gently by the Hon. General Gage while beat
ing the coverts at Firle, Sussex, England.
Such speciemen is believed to be of rare &C.
currence.
The marriage is announced of Prince
Charles of Hanau, late Elector of HeSse-
Cassel, to the Countess Hermione Grote,
daughter of the well-know Guelph Count
Grote, of Hanover.
So many violets are grown at Nice, Italy,
to supply the demand of perfumery factories,
that the air for miles around the city is heavy
with their odor. Heliotropes and white
roses are also grown by the acre.
The town of Urbino means to celebrate the
fourth centenary of Rafael's birth, March rs,
1883, by placing Carrar marble statue of
him before the Ducal Palace. The prize for
the best model will be assigned on February
2S, 1883.
A religious editor, or rather the editor of
religious paper, wrote rebuke to New
York belle on account of her ''rosseau worth
$I25,ooo," but the compositor got il trousers,
and the good man swore for the first time in
his life.
A terrible tragedy is reported from Paris.
The beautiful daughter of Jewish diamond
merchant had formed a liaison with a Span
ish count, which so, incensed her father that
he stabbed her to death with dagger, and
afterwards blew out his own brains.
M. de Melville, the celebrated French
painter of battle scenes, has received COM
mission from the English government to paint
the taking of Tel-el-Kebir. He was present
at the review held by the Queen, and he has
already made a number of sketches
for his work, including one of Sir Garnet
Woeseley at therhead of his troops.
The census of the kingdom of Italy, taken
on tie last day 1881, shows total popula-
ton of I8,44I, 669, being an increase during
the previous decade of I,65I,4S5. This in
crease, however, is less than that of the 10
years I86I-IS7I, which is accounted for by
the much greater tendency towards emigration,
at least $4,000 having left the country since
1871.
A wedding was recently celebrated at Fps
witch, the bride being Miss Charters, only
daughter of Mr.. Charters, of Stoke Park.
Ipswich, and the bridegroom Count Carl
Esterhazy, of Presseburg, Hungary. Last
summer Mr.. and Mrs. Charters, with their
daughters, were cruising on the Nile, when
their boat was upset. Count Esterhazy was
passing in his yacht, and CALAMITY rescued the
party. The acquaintance formed under these
circumstances quickly ripened into a closer
intimacy, and in presence Of a crowded con-
gregation the nuptials of the young lady and
her delverer were united.