The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-21
PERSONAL.

Robert Lincoln is said TO be a man
of greater legal sttainments than was
his late father, Abraham.
EX-PreSident Hayes has given |
5000 towards the erection of Meth |
odist church in Fremont, Ohio.
Anna Dickinson will return to the |
East soon. She will deliver her first |
lecture in Boston. Miss Susan B.
Anthony is now in the city.
Gen. Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
who is now in Texas, will visit New
Orleans during the Mardi Gras festiv-
tiles, returning thence to his home.
Friends of Jefferson Davis say that
he has determined not to attempt to
make any more public speeches, and
that he has lately given evidences of
failing health rapidly, the change
from month to month being very per-
ceptible.
The woman suffragists have form
ally thanked Secretary Folger for his
ruling in the Mrs. Capt. Mary Miller
case. As yet no great authority has
thanked him for the silly manner in
which he proclaimed his decision to
the world.
Congressman William Walter
Phelps is very popular among the ru-
raj population in the neighborhood OF
his New Jersey farm, because he goes
about IN the morning in rubber boots,
and is not beyond asking their advice
in regard to planting beans and cab
bage.
Baker Pasha did some gallant work
IN the Crlmea as a captain in the
Tenth HusSarS. He is said to have
been q splendid light cavalry officer,
and as brace man as could be found
anywhere. And in that affair with Miss
Dickerson he is said to have been the
victim of conspiracy.
Mile. Daire, adomestic servant who
is the happy winner of $4,000 prize
} in the French Arts Decoratlfs" lot
terry, arrived in Paris the other day
accompanied by an old friend, and re-
ceived the amount. She invested the
whole sum except 5000 in the funds
Since her good fortune become known
she has been beseiged with offers of
marriage: She intends to give dowry
to her eldest sister, and is spoken OF
as well conducted girl.
The Flathead chief, Carlo, and his
interpreter were both operated on at
, Providence Hospital, and their eve.
|
} der the influence of anRsthetics, and
Carlo, while unconscious, gave the
surgeons quite an interesting enter.
tainment, making speech in his ma.
tive tongue and giving some hair.
, raising war-whoops. The braves were
treated by direction of the secretary
J of the interior.
Sir John Lubbock publicly declared
7 the other day that the neglect Of
science and of modern languages in
the English schools was a national
misfortune. In despite of the code
: however, some school boards do teach
: science. In one part of Birmingham
the science lesson was given on wash
| ing day, and the science lesson was sc
popular that the mothers could moi
b. keep their daughters at home, anC
they were obliged to change the wash
l ing day.
r The Princess George of Saxony
!, whose death is announced by cable
was the wife of Prince George, thu
l heir apparent to the Saxon throne
t She was the Princess Maria Anna
g daughter of King Ferdinand of Por
t tugal and sister of the present king O.
: that country. She was born July 81
e 1843, and was married to Primo,
e George, Duke of Saxony, the youngel
s brother of King Albert, in May, 1853
She leaves six children-two girls anC
!, four boys-the Oldest of whom il
l Princess Mathilda, born in 1868, ant
= the youngest Prince Albert, born il
t February, 1875. The Portuguese,
!, chamber OF deputies adjourned yester
day as mark of respect to her memo
4 ry.
|, There is much that is both touching
S and laughter-moving in Miss Dick
e ems "reminiscences of her father, pub
3 lished in The Youths Companion
t She describes him as evincing for hi
e children a never-failing tenderness
: and sympathy. He had a peculiar
t tone of voice and way of speaking fo
t each OF the children, who could tell
e without being called by name, which
t was the one addressed. He had funn.
S songs which he used to sing to then
before they went to bed. One in par
q ticular, about an old man who caugh
e cold and rheumatism while driving il
3 an omnibus, was great favorite; an,
:; as it was accompanied by sneezes
/ coughs and funny gesticulations, i
had to be sung over and over agail
i before the small audience was salts
e fed. On one occasion, when hi
It two daughters were very small, h.
s took it into his head that they mus
r teach him and John Leech the polka
S so presently was seen the amusing
It spectacle of the two men-Mr. Leecl
g was six feet tall-dancing away a
K the command of the two little dane
o ing maidens. all four as solemn as sol
). emn could be.