The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
PERSONAL.

John Sherman made 100000 last
year in Washington real estate.
Mrs. Kate Chase has returned to
Washington from Germany on brief
visit.
John Bright's daughter, Mrs. Bright
Clark, iSlecturing in favor of woman
suffrage.
Herbert Spencer's most important
works have been translated into
japanese.
Moses, husband of the fat woman,
sold her body to Baltimore physi-
clan the day of her death.
Senator Morton's statue is almost
completed, and will be unveiled in
Indianapolis at an early day.
Leopold Won Ranke, who is about
eighty-four years old, has about COM
pleted another volume of his uni
versal History
O'Donnen, the slayer of Carey, the
nison, Texas, who is proprietor of the
Parnell saloon.
Pope Leo's health is far from i'm
proving, and it is thought that the
anxiety evinced during the past two
years for his welfare is well ground
ed.
Mr.. w. f. Sutton, a Scotchman
living IN London, is acknowledged
the champion long distance bicyclist,
having gone over 1854 miles in one
day.
A New York paper prints an "inter-
view. with Mr.. Tilden, but as the in
terviewer failed to find the statesman
cutting cord of hickory wood before
breakfast, or swinging 250-pound
dumb bells, it is strongly suspected
by his friends that the interview is
bogus.
Rev. C. H. Seymour, of Dubuque,
declared from his pulpit on a recent
Sunday that while the Sabbath morn
ing might be spent in devotion, mild
forms of recreation might properly be
INDUCED in in the afternoon. This
looks as if Dubuque is about to have
a new beer garden.
The big toe of the girl baby of the
Chinese minister at Washington late
ly underwent the cruel operation of
being bent almost double and bound
in that position, which, in the Celes-
tial empire, is an insignia of royal
birth. Slow music and much ceremo-
ny accompanied the torture.
Gen. Francis Bates Pond, the father
of "the POND bill" noted in Ohio poll
tics, had an eventful career. The son
OF Congregational minister, collie
gian, a wanderer in the Huron wilds,
a pinched school master, lawyer, a
private, a captain, a colonel and a
brigadier from 1861 to 1865, and final
ly a prohibition leader in the Ohio
legislature, his life was busy indeed.
His death, few days ago, occurred
when he was fifty-eight.
Nine. Patti wore a gray walking
suit and jockey hat as she stepped
down the gang-plank from the deck
of the Gallia at New York early yes
terday morning. Signor Nicolini was
at her side. Nine. Patti was not
smiling, for she had expected recep-
ton down the bay. When Col. Ma
pleson explained that the early in
coming of the steamer had surprised
her friends the froWns were chased
away and Signor Nicolini also unknit
his brows.
Gen. Butler was once engaged as
counsel for the defendant in a case
where the prisoner was accused of
manslaughter, and in course of his
argument, based on the assumption
of self-defense, he informed the jury
that eve have it on the highest au-
thority that all that a man hath he
will give for his life" Judge Hoar,
counsel on the other side, rose and
demolished his opponents argument
by quickly saying that he had long
wondered what Gen. Butler consid-
cred the highest authority, and was
very glad to have the question set
tied" and proceeded to read to the
court from the book of Job: "And
satan answered the Lord and said, all
that man hath will he give for his
life -