The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-19
PERSONAL.

Senator Fairs wife and family have
gone to Santa Cruz to live.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wears
clothes of the fashion of twenty-five
years ago.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has been enter
tanned in England by Lady Brassey,
Lord Houghton and Lady Wilde.
Josiah 4. Walls, Florida's colored
congressman, will make between
$1,000 and $4,000 net from his vegeta-
bic crops this season.
The New York Morning Journal
says: "Beecher earns $4,000 a year,
and yet he never has any money. The
good man probably has to do his own
marketing"
John q. Whittier wrote to a COM
mittee of Oberlin college declining to
| prepare poem for the semi-centen-
| NAL of that institution, because his
state of health has made writing diff
ficult.
Mrs. Langtry has been bathing at
Long Branch in an Olivette costume
of blue flannel trimmed with red
Sometimes she would swim under
water. Freddie remained ashore and
applauded with the crowd.
Bismarck puts as much American
pork under his belt when the ther-
mometer is at 92 as he does when it is
down toward zero. This singular
| passion for the American article will
probably follow the great man to his
death-bed.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
novelist. is reported to have said that
| the three things necessary for writing
| novel are pen, ink and paper; the
first to be used with brains, the second
with imagination and the third with
generosity.
Mr.. Mackey, the bonanza king, has
outdone the Vanderbilts and the
other patrons of the fine arts. He
has bought for $550,OO0 a collection of
pictures ready made, and a good old
| collection, too-that at Leigh Court,
| Somerset,
The dying Mrs, Swift, of Rochester
Mich, desired to see her daughter
married, but the bridegroom could
not be brought in time. Therefore, as
| coming nearest to her wish that was
possible, the wedding was held in her
dead presence.
Benjamin P. Cheney, a Boston
millionaire, waited many years for
beautiful widow to marry him, which
| she agreed to do when she had raised
her daughter. The waiting becoming
too deliberate, he married the daugh-
tel, who loved him without conditions,
and she made him noble wife.
John w. Kepler, one of the famous
twin brothers, of Bucks county, Pa,
is dead. Bernard Kepler still retains
considerable degree of health and
vigor, and his body is straight and
shapely. The brothers were born on
March q, 1892. on the farm in Plum
stead township, near Gardenville,
which has been their home ever since.
Little Miss Arthur, though but
child, is seen to the best advantage
when she goes out shopping, which
she does frequently, with all the dig
nifty of state carriage and livery. She
sits back in the carriage alone like a
little queen and gives her orders to
the footman, who, repeating them to
the driver, mounts the box with fold
ed arms, and they drive to some of the
fashionable stores on the avenue and
on f street. She makes her purchases
from the very deferential merchants,
who escort her and her bundles back
to the carriage and bear her directions
to the footmaD, who stands holding
the carriage door.-Washington Post.
During his administration the late
Bishop Pinkney, of Maryland, added
more than thirty new chapels and
churches to the diocese, and trebled
the missionary offerings. The past
year was very busy one, 1900 per-
sons being confirmed in it by him.
The day before his death he told DR..
levin of his intention to go to the
White Sulphur Springs, but added
that he would not go until he had
met his obligations to the poorer
clergy of his diocese, to whom he had
pledged half the salary he received.
He said that he had arranged with his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Lowndes, to send
the checks to the various recipients.
The same day he handed DR.. Levin
the book of his official acts, saying:
Here is the book of my officials acts
up to to-day, with all the papers in it,
The last Episcopal gathering over
which the bishop presided by virtue
of his Office was the late Episcopal
Centenary, held in Baltimore.