The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-12
GENERAL AND Personal.

The question, "How long is it necessary to
keep children awsy from school after an IN
fectious disease?" was answered some time
since by the Academy Of Medicine, Paris.
With scarlet fever, diphtheria, maintained Tor
forty days. Chicken pox and mumPs lose
their contagious power after twenty-five days.
Paletots are much trimmed with soutache
braid. Ribbed cloth is becoming very
fashionable, and sacques made OF It are I'm,
ished off with a collar and cuffs OF plush, and
often have a deep bordering OF plush. In
soma graduating wheels are made IN sotache,
and design in the same material is carried
down the side seams.
Mark Twain failed to answer letter writ
ten to him by Sergeant Ballentine. Alter
waiting reasonable time the latter was so
expasperated at not receiving an answer that
he mailed Twain sheet Of paper and post
age stamp as gentle reminder. Mr.. Clemens
wrote back on postal: "Paper and stamp
received; pleas send an envelope"
The baron of beef, boar's head and the
gigantic woodcock pie, which are the tradi-
tional Christmas dishes on the side5oard
of the sovereign, were dispatched to Osborne
from Windsor Castle. Up to 1866 the King
of Hanover regularly sent splendid boar
head as Christmas present to the Queen,
the custom of importing the head from Ger
many having been commenced by George IL.
The startling discovery..has been made by
M. Pasteur that that the saliva OF person
fasting is venomous, as it contains parasites
which will noculate. Breaking the fast
deprves the saliva of its poisonous quality
as the parasites are then taken into the
stomach with the food. The eminent biolo-
gist gives for the present only the fact, and
makes no attempt at explanation.
The transit of Venus has suggested to M.
de Fonvielle, the well-known French writer
of popular scientific reatises, the quaint idea
of founding a journal called LIE Passage de
Venus, the first number of which has actually
appeared. 1t will only appear fourteen times
in one thousand years, and the next number
will not come out till June 8, 2oo4, when the
next transit occurs. Subscriptions are re-
ceived, payable in advance, of course.
The Duke of Hamilton's Valaska, which
won a steeplechase at Sandown the other day,
has been turned out of training, and will in
future be ridden by the Duchess as hunter.
Her Grace, who is bold and accomplished
rider, has been recently hunting from Kim
bolton Castle. The Duke and Duchess pro-
pose going for Mediterranean cruise early
in the new year in their floating palace"
the Thistle, which has left the Clyde for
Cowes.
The New York Tribune says: Eleven hun
bred brokers, each with seat Sin the board,
rated at $4,000, or $33,ooo,ooo for the full
regiment, and this contingent having nothing
to do but to sell the personal property of the
country like a band of self-hcensed auctioneers,
present striking new years contrast to New
York in 1910, when the richest individual in
North America, Covert Loockermans, died
here worth 22o, 900 Dutch guilders, or about
SI2o, 900 in silver.
Pasteur, the French scientist, is described
as a man OF low stature and powerful frame
spare, angular and weather-beaten. He is
a man of few words, abrupt but clear in
speech, and of quick, impetus gestures. Al
though his fame rests upon minute material
research, he is steadfast believer in spiritu-
alism, and takes no interest in evolution theo-
ries or positivist doctrines. He is genial and
hospitable, and has both political and social
weight.