The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-06
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Chronicle of Celebrities Paragraph
About People of Prominence
MIR. Blaine owns S174,OOO worth O
coal property near Pittsburg.
Sir Moses Montefore is mentioned
as the peter Cooper of Europe"
Yale's champion clog dancer of las
year has become a divinity student.
Mr.. Arthur intends to journey from
Washington to New York to cast hi.
ballot.
| MIR. Rowell, pedestrian, is about t.
start in a siX-day tanbark race in Lon
don:
More than one thousand candidates
Tor congress will be voted for on Nov.
ember 4.
Alexander M. Sullivan's family are
to be made the benefciaries of a e1O..
OOO subScriptiOd fund.
Out of about 600 cases of sunstroke
noted in New York the past summer
at least $50 turned out to be DRINKS.
VIM. 81. Vanderbilt has inst SUI
scribed $500 toward the fund for the
relief of disabled New York police
men.
Secretary Frelinghuysen authorizes
the statement of the reported engage
men5 of his daughter to President
Arthur untrue.
A medical enthusiast has started a
peach cure near Wilmington, Del, sim
liar to the grape cure of Germany and
the pear cure OF California.
A man in Natick, Mass, has an
apple tree in his garden, the blossoms
OF which are at the end opposite the
stem, and plainly visible to the eye.
Fashion now requires the Partisan
dandy to wear an ornamental cane.
On or near the head should be an eye
glass, a watch or cigarette-holder.
Miss Mary Anderson's Juliet is ex-
pected with much curiosity in Lon
don. Lewis Winfield's preparations
are on a. large scale and have cost
$4,000.
A bill before the Vermont legis-
lature provides bounty of from fifty
cents to $150 per bushel for grass !.
hoppers, according to the season in
which they are killed.
George Alfred Townsend, the ia
nous newspaper correspondent known
as "Gath," contributes thirty columns
to the press each week, for which he
receives $500, $1,000 month or $19,-
200 year.
Adam Forepargh, the well known
Snowman, was married in Philadel-
phia last Tuesday to Miss Mary G..
Gdllman, Of that city. The bride is
twenty years of age and the groom
fifty-four.
The Newburyport family of the
Arctic explorer spell their name
Greeley, and the lieutenant also is said
to write it so; but the government
officials insist on spelling it Greedy all
the same.
The late Mr.. Burr, of New York,
left to his daughters an immense es-
tate. AT this moment nearly one
hundred lawyers are engaged in the
suit involving the distribution of the
property.
Seth Cook, of Rathboneville, N. Y,
will be 103 years old on the 10th OF
next January. He is so well preserv-
ed that lie walked seventeen miles the
other day, nor was he fat1gued much
at his journeys end.
Ferdinand Ward still occupies his
old quarters in Ludlow street Jail.
The only callers he has are his wife,
who spends three or four days a week
with him, and his counsel, who appear
about once week.
The car has ordered all his pictures
out of the shop windows of st. Peters,
burg. He says they are treated with
indignity by the people. What a con-
fesSion for the ruler of more than
hundred millions of subjects to make.
Gen. Butler was expected IN Erie on
Wednesday, and crowd waited for
him at the depot. AS the train drew
up to the station there was a sudden
rush towards the palace cars, and a
stalwart voice cried out, "Don't go
there, Gen. Butler travels in an emf
grant car and pays his own fare. We
are all laborers here"
Gen. T. L. Clingman, of North Car
Dina, continues steadfaSt and enthu-
siastic in his faith in tobacco as a
panacea for the ILLS that flesh is heir
to-" and reports several new cases in
which remarkable cures of drop3y,
sore throat, corns, warts, ETC., have
been effected by the application of to-
bacco-leaf congresses.
"Poor Carlotta," the ex-Empress
Charlotte, widow of the hapless Max
imilian, has recently completed her
forty-fourth year. The ex-empress is
a sister of Leopold II, King of the
Belgians, and cousin of Queen Wet
oria. She resides at the palace of
Lacken, in Belgium, and has been
nearly seventeen years widow. She
is still deranged.
Robert Bonner, writing of the
groom who takes care of Maud S.,
says: "He sleeps on cot in her stall,
and one night recently, when the
weather was warm, but threatened to
turn cold, he purposely went to bed
with very little clothing on himself,
knowing that if it turned cold during
the night he would feel 1t and would
wake up. when he could put addition
al clothing on the mare.
The Chicago Tribune says negotia-
lions have been going on for some
time, which are expected to make
Carl SchurZ a resident of Chicago. A
number of friends are said to have
raised the necessary money to pur-
chase the Demokrat, German daily
newspaper started here year ago,
and that the paper will be bought and
Mr.. Schurz placed in charge of it.
Mr.. Morrison tells this incident in
the late Mark Pattison's life: "On one
occasion, when / was speaking of the
mistakes we are apt to commit in es-
timating our Importance in the world,
he answered with his Characteristic
emphasis, 'Yesl Take your worst
opinion of yourself when you are in
the most depressed mood. Extract the
cube root of that and you will be get
ting near the common opinion of your
merits"
Miss Coghlan, the leading lady of
Wallack's Theatre, IN New York, re-
ceives $500 a week. She has a man
cook, coachman, a maid and gen
eral servant, and her dinners are SUI
perb. A theatrical gossip tells of an
other leading lady, who is passionate
ly fond of pigs feet. A short time ago
she ate six plates of pigs feet before
taking time to talk over the neWspa-
per notices she was sure her success
full performance would elicit.
Samuel Primsoll, the sailors friend,
of the British parliament. said to an
interviewer the other day: This is
nv first visit to New York, and l
seem to have struck it at an exciting
time. 1t must Ibe terribly expensive
to conduct a presidential campais n. I
witnessed the parades lastinight; those
uniforms and torches must have cost
a deallof money, and cannot see how
such demonstrations are of the slight
est benefit to hither of the political
parties"
OF the remains of Gustavus Adolf