The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
PERSONAL.

Chronicles of Celebrities - Paragraphs
About People of Prominence.
Robert Bonner is being urged to ac-
cept the mayoralty nomination in
New York.
F. Won Hornbach, a foreigner, labor
ing on ranch near the city, died sud
denly, to-day, from exhaustion and
hard drinking.
An American prodigy, Ernest Schel-
ling, aged 8, by the help of Ambrose
Thomas, entered the Paris conserve
toire to learn pianoforte playing.
Count Won Borcke, the ex-Confed-
crate cavalryman, postponed his de-
parture for Berlin, and is the guest OF
comrades in western North Carolina.
Mr.. Mason, United States Consul at
Marseilles, has been highly compli-
mented by the state department for
his courage in remaining at his post
during the cholera epidemic.
Simon Cameron will soon be Sc
years old, and he tells his friends that
his mental powers are unimpaired,"
which simply means that he knows
as much now as he ever did.
DR.. Giuseppina Catani has passed a
brilliant examination in medicine at
the university of Bologna, and goss
upon record "as the first woman in
Italy," so runs the account, "to be-
come brother of Hippocrates."
Mrs. Herrick, wife of the rector of
the pretty Episcopal church at For
tress Monroe, has dressed 5000 dolls
within the last two years, which she
sold at 81 each for various ecclesias-
tical and charitable purposes.
Mai. Theodore II. Eckerson, U. S.
A., the soldier poet" will take up
his permanent residence in Washing
ton this winter, having been retired.
Both his sons are army officers, both
his daughters the wives of army Off
GERS.
Congressman Pig Iron Kelley's
daughter, Florence, has prepared for
publication "Twenty Letters from
England" none of them Mulligan
letters. and all of them dealing with
the life of English laborers and the
laws under which they work.
Mrs. Nettie Sanford, of the fourth
auditors office in Washington, is in
dignant because the prohibitionists of
Iowa have nominated her for superin-
tendant of schools, She calls st. John
all sorts of naughty names, and says
she is no more prohibitlonist than
Mai. Blaine is.
Marion Crawford, the novelist, is q
persistent smoker of cigarettes, which
he makes himself very adroitly
When writing he has little Roman
bowl full of tobacco, and book OF
cigarette papers at his elbow, and
whenever he pauses for thought the
time is utilized to manufacture {
fresh cigarette.
Warner Wilson deliberately got
drunk when about to die at Vernon
Mich, because he had observed
throughout his religious experience
that intoxication has always aroused
him to especial fervor. His acquaint
ances say he was sincere in this, as h
, was deeply impressed with the solem
; nifty of the occasion.
; Queen Victoria, according to tn
. Leisure Hour. first brought the re-
( balmoral petticoat into style abou
!. 1886. 1t is said that the late Primo
: Consort, in admiring the effect of tn
Q red petticoat in the landscape, sug
9 gested that her majesty should adoI
/ one also. This sealed the fate c
s white petticoats in England.
r Louis de la Rance, known 6
sOuida," because her brother so stan
mered her first name, is described {
ga woman some 40 years of age, go
geously attired, tall, well set up, wit
l. England's limestone formation in tt
way of bones, well covered with ad
n pose, garnished with light blue ey'
" and an abundance of yellow hair
A. J. Blethen, briefiess young ba
rister in Maine, went west about fly
years ago, and by hard work got 6
u interest in the Kansas City Journ;
The other day he sold his interest f
81 $4,000, and now, in partnership Wi
Sc William E. Haskell, has bought Il
Minneapolis Tribune. Young Ha
ID kell is son of E. B. Haskell, edit
n of the Boston Herald.
n The widow of Gen. e. 0. G. Ord
the owner of the table upon viii
n the articles of capitulaslnn were VIZ
N ten when Gen. Robert d. Lee sure
,v dered at Appomattox court house. Gt
Ord commanded corps in the fedel
u army, and was present when Gel
e. Grant and Lee agreed upon the teri
lnSss of surrender. Immediately afterwaI
u he purchased the table and present
it to Mrs. Gen. Grant, but she declin
OF to receive it. It was taken to q
ey Ord's home, and has been in the p
re session of his family ever since.
Ia Every smoker should try 'Lit
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