The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-21

Senator Bayard is to preside at the
NeWburgh, N. Y, centennial in Oc-
tober.
Adirondack" Murray will lecture in
the leading cities of the country next
season.
Mayor Lowe, of Brooklyn, has
caused his neighbors to Squint by
painting his house vivid red.
Mr.. Seelye, president of Amherst
college, has. declined the presidency of
the university of Minnesota.
MIR. Gebhart followed Mrs. Langtry
to Halifax last week and returned
with her to Boston.
Mr.. Bradlaugh has written Il letter
In which he Indignantly denies that
he wrote the Comic History of
Christ"
One William Mccarthy was men
toned recently by the Boston Trans
cript as the author of 1.-The Bonnie
Blue Flag" The error has led to the
disclosure of the fact that the man
who wrote the song is Harry Macar-
thy, now the manager of a rough va
riety at Missoula, Montana.
Senator West, of Missouri, had a
narrow escape from death few days
ago. He was alone ia a bath room at
Hot Springs, when from some I'M
known cause he became insensible.
His condition was discovered in time
to prevent death from drowning, and
he is now much improved,
Orrin Gowell is the least pretentious
of the Pacific Coast millionairies. He
lives at Nevada, CAL, dresses like a
laborer and handles pick all day
long. "One day last summer" he said
to a reporter, 81 was doing some work
near my house at Fruitvale when an
Irishman caue along the street, and,
seeing me there, damned his face
against the pickets of the fence and
called out cautiously "Soy, Pat,
can't yees ship into the kitchen wild
out missus seein' NV yees end get me
a bit of bread ?"
Mr.. Willie Beckwith, the champion
swimmer of the world, and his sister,
Miss Agnes, who holds the female
championship of the same planet,
both gave an exhibition of their art
the other evening in New York, and
their performances were really Won
derful. Willie BeckWith seems as
much at home in the water as fish.
He went under the water and de-
voured two sponge cakes without
coming to the surface, and afterward
drank bottle of milk beneath the
waves and then smoked pipe under
water, with the bowl above. 1t took two
minutes to eat the cakes, one minute
and half to smoke the pipe, and the
milk was consumed in one minute.
Mr.. Beckwith has record, however,
of staying under water three minutes.
His sisters exhibition seemed
even more wonderful than his own,
and as unlike most female performers,
she swan on her chest, feet first, pro-
polling herself with her hands; she
dressed in sailors suit over tights,
and took it off on the surface of the
water. She swan with a small hoop
and passed her body through it at
each stroke. She walked in the water
with her hands above her head, she
waltzed, and she swan with her
hands and legs tied. Mr.. Beckwith
swan under the water, holding one
leg above the surface that he might
breathe through his foot, and he went
underneath and took off a sailors
suit, in which he was attired over his
tights, before coming to the top. His
sister gave an exhibition, designated
on the programme as "the prayer" in
which she swan with her feet, hold
ing her clasped hands over her head
This mode of swimming is recon-.
mended for steamboat collisions and
ocean wrecks, as it gives one an op'
portunity to pray for help while he OF
She paddles shoreward.