The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-29
PERSONAL.

| Gen. Buffers campaign is said by
| the Boston Journal to have cost hin
$4,000.
The Empress Eugene is great
| favorite at Aldershot, where she
makes frequent visits to the barracks
The widow Tom Thumb says she
will not marry again unless some nice
little man comes along and makes her
change her mind.
Pere Hyacinthe delivered a sermon
in French at the church of the Holy
Cross, at Washington, large congre-
CATION being present.
Mrs. Lynn Linton, the English
story-writer, is now over sixty years
of age. but still works with her old
vigor and keeps all her social engage
ments.
Joseph G. Hendrix, the defeated can
didate for mayor of Brooklyn. is said
to have been selected as the editor of
new Democratic daily to be started
in that city.
Field Marshal Won Moltke is, next
to the emperor, the most popular man
in Germany. When at royal festivals
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Saxony, rise to greet him.
George d. Robinson, will be the
third Governor of Massachusetts di-
rectly descended from Dolor Davis,
who came over in 1885. John Davis
and John d. Long were the others.
The director of the print room of
the British museum is authority for
the statement that Miss Mary Ander-
son visited that room in order to
study the costumes for Romeo and
Juliet"
Sherman and Grant were st. Louis
men before the war; Grant drove in
cord-wood and Sherman was president
of horse car line. Sheridan, mean
while, was engaged in carting earth
dug out of canal.
Mrs. Langtry was suddenly taken
seriously III while in her palace car at
Hamilton, Ontario, on Thursday. She
is suffering from nervous prostration.
She was to have appeared in the
school for Scandal in the Grand
Opera House, but had to postpone the
performance.
Kwang Lee, the young emperor of
China, deVoteS three hours day to
studying the language of this coun-
try, but otherwise does nothing eX-
cept ride in the imperial gardens. He
will assume the reins of government
personally on the 31st of next July,
his fifteenth birthday.
Ex-Vice-President Wheeler's friends
fear he has become confirmed inva-
lid. He has not peen well since his
term expired. He is at his home at
Malone, n. Y. lie has long been a
sufferer from insomnia, He is now
siXty-four years old, though looking
much younger.
The cause Of Postmaster-Genera
Gresham's sieeplessness is the malaria
arising from the Potomac flats. The
late DIR. j. Marion Sims liked Wash
ington, and he believed that when the
flats were repaired it would be the
healthiest city in the country. He in
tended to build residence there next
year.
Marriage engagements which had
been announced of two Washington
ladies have recently been declared off,
in both instances because of the ill
health of the groom-elect. One was
that of Gen. Emory's daughter and
Gen. Augur's son, and the other is
that of Gen. Meigs' daughter and Mr..
Archibald Forbes, of England.
It is stated that Rabbi Schul, of
Dallas, who created such a stir few
months ago, has written a play,
founded on his experience in Dallas in
connection with the scandal there.
The prominent actors in the reality
are made to figure in the play. which
is now in the hands of the Madison
Square theatre company to be produc-
ed next year.
Patrick Delany, whose inventions
in biography are attracting attention,
was a Western Union messenger boy
in Hartford a few years ago. This
item, now going the roun Is Of the
press, was evidently sent out as bull
letin by SO. K" Sommerville. who
expects that all small boys will now
want TO be messengers for nothing,
and furnish their own car fare.