The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-16
PERs0NAL.

John A. Logan's silence is said to
be significant. 1t is undoubtedly of
the highest Importance to English
grammar.
The Rev. DR.. Nevin, rector of st.
Paurs Episcopal church in Rome,
Italy, is spending the summer in
Lenox, Mass.
Mrs. Z. d. E. n. Southworth began
to write for Mr.. Bonner when he first
took charge of the Ledger, and is still
contributor.
The first prize for designing the
facade of the Milan cathedral has
been won by Prof. Ferrario. There
were siXty-two competitors.
They don't seem to know which is
the richest Gould or Vanderbilt; but
it is probably Mr.. Gould, as he was in
the newspaper business for time.
Pere Hyacinth will visit this coun-
try next month and deliver course
of lectures, with the object of raising
money to pay off the on his Paris
chapel.
Queen Victoria has received a
woman physician, Mrs. Scharlieb, with
unusual favor at Windsor Castle,
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and encouraged her to excel in her pro-
feSSion.
Baron Nordenskjold while in Ice
land, discovered prehistoric map of
that island, together with portions of
Greenland, England and Scotland.
The discovery is considered an impor-
tant one.
The King of Bavaria is building a
secluded palace for himself, which he
intends shall be the most elegant, COM
modiouS and magnificent human abode
on earth, and with the largest ban
quoting hall.
All the judges of the supreme
court, except Justice Stroug, are said
to be infidels. A judge of the su-
preme court. however, is never ap-
pointed for his religion, or ev en- his
knowledge Of law, but for his poll
tics.
Herr Pollini has offered Wagner's
widow the sum of 100000 marks for
the exclusive rights of Parsifal,
which, however, she has declined.
The reason for her refusal, which is
unaccountable considering the high
price offered, does not transpire.
His eminence Prince Schwarzen-
berg, archbishop Of Prague, will cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of his
priestly ordination on the 18th of this
month. He is seventy-two years old,
was created cardinal by Gregory XVI.
January "a, 1912, and is the only sur
vivor of the cardinals created by that
pope. If he resided in Rome he would
be Dean of the Sacred College.
Tom Thumb died comparatively
young for dwarf. Richard Gibson,
miniature painter and court dwarf to
Charles l, lived to be IS, and his dwarf
wife, Ann Shepherd, to be IS. Sir
Godfrey Hudson, dwarf and diplo-
matist to Charles II, expired at SO, and
and the little gentleman's span of life
was shortened by his incarceration, on
suspicion of connivance in the Popish
plot, in the gate house at Westminster
where he died. The far famed Polish
dwarf, Count Borulawski, for whom
George " provided, died also at an
advanced age. Dwarfs are better con-
stituted, so Barnum says, than giants,
both mentally and physically.
In her recent letter to the London
Times on the veXed question of inter-
national copyright, "Ouida" is not
very complimentary to the United
States. ut is of no use," she says, "to
talk of honest or honorable feeling to
the American nation as regards Eng
lish literature; they say with cynical
frankness that so long as they can
steal it for nothing it does not serve
their purpose to pay for it. 1, for one,
never hope to see them abandon this
position. When they do, their COM
mercial moral morality will be purer
than it is at present. The dime
novel suits their purposes and their
tastes, and European authors are
sacrificed without any scruple, that
America may be supplied with this
ugly and Imprinted production of an
advanced civilization