The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-23
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handsomest old fellow in New York.
John Mccullough is in New York.
He is less dazed, but is still mentally
i'll.
joaquin Miller's real name. as it
leaks out is really and truly Cincinna-
tus Hiner Miller.
George Ticknor Curtis contributes
to the November Century, paper on
How Shall we Elect our President.
W. NJ. Clemens has engaged to edit
Literary Life for the Elder Publish
ing company for five years, at Cleve-
land.
The queens sailor-boy grandsons,
Albert, Victor and George, have writ
ten book entitled the Cruise of II.
NJ. S. Bacchante.'
Boston will award Mrs. Palmer, the
wife of ex-Mayor Palmer, of that city,
$1,000 for injuries received last winter
by fall on am icy sidewalk.
The reported engagement between
Mr.. Emmons Blaine and Miss Medill,
OF Chicas o, is said to be without a
shadow of foundation in fact.
Grizzly DaD," the famous Californ-
ian bear hunter, was examined for in
sanity last week, and promptly COM
mitted to the Stockton asylum.
Dr.. c. G. Graham, of Louisville, Ky.
was 100 years old few days ago.
One hundred leading citizens of Ken
lucky gave banquet in his honor.
The Prince of Wales may now save
up little pocket change to pay on
his debts. Mary Anderson has for
merly announced that she will receive
no more floral offerings.
Ben: Perley Poore is not so poor as
some people suppose he is. He has a
house that contains sixty rooms. Who
will now say that his "reminiscences
are not worth anything?
John A. Logan's assertion that the
south is solidly republican If it would
only have free ballot and fair count,
shows tha the is something of a pre-.
varicator himself.
When Butler spoke at Philadelphia
the other night one of the gallery
gods threw large tin spoon on the
stage The ever brazen Ben picken it
up and used it to make gestures with.
Professor D. Hayes Agnew, DR. Jno.
B. Beaver, DR.. w. A. Edwards and
DIR. r. II. Harte, all of the university
staff, are members of the Young
Democratic Battalion" Of Philadel-
phia.
Chanfrau selected his own epitaph.
1t was a quotation from his Exit, the
Arkansas Traveller" which has most
pathetic sound now: 81 done my
level best; L amt got nothing to take
back"
Vermont now furnishes the Oldest
senator in years, Senator Morrill,, and
in term of office, Senator Edmunds.
Though the latter is eighteen years
the junior, he looks older than Senator
Morrill,.
Queen Victoria has presented a large
number of copies of her book, "More
leaves from My Journal" to the pub
lie libraries of Canada. All that is
now needed is law to compel the
people 60 read them.
Mr.. Winans, the Baltimore million
aire, pays e15,OO0 annually for the
shooting preserves in Scotland, but he
and the mobiles never speak as they
pass by, possibly because they are
envious of his lands.
Will. M. Carleton, author of "Betsey
and Are Out has recently married
and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y. His
wife's Christian name Is Betsey. Per-
haps Mr.. Carleton may give us another
version Of GLOW Betsey and l Made
Up
President Theodore d. Woolsey has
resigned from the Yale college cor
poration, the reason assigned being
his advanced age He will be SO
years old this month. Rev, Amos
Cheesborough of Durham, also resigns
from the same body.
1t is lskely that comparatively few
tears will be shed by the people of
Spain for King Alfonso in the event
Of his taking off-which will prob
ably occur before many months. His
reign has been neither brilliant nor
beneficial one for Spain.
The ten children of Joseph Petit
john, of Prescott, w. t., are marvels
of height and weight. A 17-year old
son is seven feet high and weighs 265
| pounds. The average height of the
whole is six and half feet, and the
! average weight 224 pounds.
II. M. Shaw Josh Billings) does not
take life as huge joke exactly, but
he manages to enjoy himself most of
the time. He has just driven his nags,
Tom and Jerry, all the way from Sar-
atoga to New York, a gay party of
eight serving as ballast for the coach.
Reuben Springer and David Sinton
have offered $25, 600 each to the Gin
cinnati Museum association to pay
for the removal of the present post
Office building in that city to the
grounds of the association in Eden
park, as sample of pure Grecian
architecture.
Commodore Kittson says that John
ston, the PAGER, is not to be had at any
price; OF, in the words of Mr.. Wood
mansee, Kittsons manager, "There
isn't money enough to buy him"
| Woodmansee ranks Johnston with
Jay-Eye-See and Maud S., and expects
record of two minutes in 1885.
Prof. Dewey, the curator of metal
lurgy in the National Museum at
Washington, naturally wants to know
something about his business, and is
now in the mining regions of Monta.
ma, where Dewey from morn till dewy
eve devotes himself to studying the
metallurgical processes in practical
/ use.
| Miss Hu King Eng, Chinese girl
| Is years old, the daughter of Christian
parents, has been admitted to the
Ohio Wesleyan university, at Della
ware, Ohio. She is the first of hel
country women to seek an English
education in this country, her object
being to fit herself for missionary
work at home.
George f. Seward, formerly minis
ter at Pekin, scouts the notion thai
| American mediation can accomplish
anything between France and China
Since the restriction acts America
has lost her influence at Pekin. Mr.
Seward calls this policy very absurd
and stupid and believes that we will
dearly pay for it in the loss of trade.
! A Partisan once remarked to Long
fellow that there was one American
word he never could understand, O.
find in the dictionary. "What is it !?
inquired the poet. "Thatldo," wa
the reply. 81 never heard of tn,
word" said Longfellow. Presently
servant came in to replenish the fire
After putting on little fuel, Long
fellow remarked TO him. "That vii
do" "Ha" exclaimed the French
man, "that is the very word which ha
troubled me-"
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