The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-05-03
LATE NEWS BREvITIEs.

ne 1aVorlte straw hat this summer is TO be
the "Tommy Tigertail."
General Grant made $4,000 by the rise of
Louisville and Nashville stock last week.
MIR. Bell, the Hartford publisher. expects to
make $ioo,ooo by the publication OF Mr..
Blaine's book.
Frederick Douglass having been classed
among the millionaires, says that he is worth
less than SIoo, 900.
Mr.. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, after
spending SIoo 900 on a palace, doesn't like
its appearance, and orders it to be demol-
ished.
DIR. Bigelow, of Boston, has won the high
est of the Argenteuil prizes ($I2oo) for a
medical treatise sent to the Paris Academy Of
Medicine.
Hindoo marriages at 10 years old or therea-
bouts are the cause of such evils that the An
glo-Indan press is demanding their prohibi-
ton by law.
Military reports show that about one sol
dier in every five on the frontier becomes a
deserter, and nearly one man in six of the army
as whole.
Rents have reached the limit OF their upward
advance in New York city, and have begun to
fall-the sure sign that the end of an era Of
speculation is near.
There were more marriages in Victoria,
Australia, in 1882 than in any previous year,
viz, $500. Women have ceased to be scarce
in the colony, and now outnumber the men
by 1903 TO 100.
A plan for the education of women by the
same course OF instruction as that afforded the
male students, but at different place and
time, is being considered by the trustees Of
the Pennsylvania University.
The French Government is building eight
new iron-clades, two of which will carry So
ton guns-heavy enough to sink the English
naval Jumbo, InAexble. The cost of these
vessels will be So, 200, 900 each.
By vote of S. nays to 100 yeas, the Mas
sachusetts House refused to engross the reso-
luton for an amendment to the constitution so
that women may be appointed Justices of the
peace and notaries public, a two-thirds vote
being necessary.
As nearly as can be ascertained there is not
full blooded Indian residing in the State of
Massachusetts, they having from time to time
intemarried with the whites and those OF Afri-
can descent. Counting all those who have In
dian blood in their veins in the State, in the
vestges OF the tribes remaining, there are to-
day not far from 1000 persons, embracing
235 families. The numbers contained in
these tribes have been decreasing for over 200
years.
1t will be remembered that Prince Bismarck
took offense at some strong expressions i, an
electioneering speech of Professor Mommsen,
and sued him for libel. The celebrated hsto-
rian was absolved by the Tribunal of First In
stance, but the High Court OF Appeal having
decided that fresh trial must be instituted
the case came on again for second time, and
terminated in second triumph of liberty of
speech.
A well-known foreign correspondent, M.
Ivan de Wolstyne, who will represent several
papers at the coronation, writes that the cere-
monies will extend over nine days at st. Pc
tersburg and 10 days at Moscow. In the lat
ter city householders are already asking 5000
rubles (about $2aso) per fortnight for suite
Of four or five rooms. Houses round the
Kremlin hired for the court are taken at $50
per day. Cab fares during the fete are al
ready up TO $I7 so per day.
On the first Monday of June next the An
cient and Honorable Artillery company, of
Boston, Mass, will celebrate its 24sth ami
versary, and the usual sermon will be
preached. Up to June, 1882, ais sermons
have been delivered flor 80 years they were
omitted), and the records show that 1888 of
them were printed, the first one in 1000, by
the Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, a copy
of which is now in the possession VI
the American Antiquarian society, OF Wor-
cester.