The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-19
PERSONAL.

Secretary Folger is steadily gaining
in strength.
Prince Bismarck's favorite musical
instrument is said to be the accordioIN'
Ex-United States Senator Tabor IS
about to build in Denver a hotel
which, when finished, will cost ST.
25O,OO0.
1t is said that Mr.. Arthur is the
first president of the United States To
visit Florida during his term of Office.
The Prince of Wales has accepted
the honorary membership of the
Deutcher Verein fur Kunst und Wis
sencnaft German Athenaum)
Mrs. Ella X. Trader, who spent
S10OG)0 Of her own money III aiding
the wounded soldiers during the war,
now lives in poverty al .Naheville.
North Caroline.
Mr.. W. a. Bartlett Buri -coutts.
the husband of Lady iiir,lette-
Coutts, has abandoned his connection
with the Conservative party. and is
seeking constituency in the Liberal
interest.
Speaking of the coming American
tour OF the lord chief justice-,d Eng
land, the Pail Mall GDzette silS.+-1hat
Lord Coleridge will. it is bell we'd, be-
accompanied by at lea It one other of
her majesty's Judges.
Forepaugh has SUCCEEDED in secur-
ing the heaviest Inan in the world for
his show.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher a few
days since attended the opera for the
first time in his life.
AT Il wood-cutting contest in Nc
kean county, Pennsylvania. a few
days ago, two women won the first
prize for cross-cut saving.
Ex-senator Sprague's bride, al
though but twenty-five, was a di-
vorced woman when he married her.
She is very pretty.
Mr. David Davis has right to be
fat If he wants to, and it's nobody's
business, and he shouldn't be tor
mented about it.
The widow of the late Captain De
Long, of Arctic fame, is twenty-eight
years old, petite, has light brown hair,
hazel eyes, and is a very pretty
woman.
Ella Wheeler says in one Of her
poems: 30, let me hurry on" You
had better take it easy, Ella, Some !
of the boys say you are over thirty
already.
Secretary Folger's appetite is i'm
proving, but it is not circumstance
to that Of the hungry politicians who
are hoping for change in the head of
his department.
A Russian princess, at q recent ball
given in Nice, wore dress made en-
tirely OF peacccks' feathers. Heads
of the birds. with eyes made of gar
nets, were used in the looping.
Mrs. Bowers is three feet high. She
lives in California with her husband
and four daughters, all OF whom are
ordinary in size. At table she sits in
4 high chair. But she is a rigid dis
,iplinarian, and the children submit
10 being whipped by her.
There died recently at Syria, Rev
Frederick Hildner, one of the Ameri-
IAN missionaries who established
themselves in Greece from the earliest
late of the independence. Mr.. Hid
her arrived at Syria in 1926, ard re-
NAMED there to the time of his death.
The new German war minister,
Zen. Won SchelIendorf, dates his rise
rom the Franco-German war. He
vas the bearer of the flag of truce
which returned from Sedan with
louis Nepoleon's unconditional sur
ender.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, is sail
o be every vain for so able a manu-
When the legislature appropriated
100000 for the state university he
ent from Jefferson City to st. Louis
nd bought a $40 gold pen with which
0 sign the bill. Then he sent the
en- as present to James Rollins, ac-
by letter saying the only
ime the pen had been dipped iii ink
7as to sign the bill appropriating
100000 for the university.