The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-28
PERSONAL MENTION.

General Sheridan has four little
girls, two of them twins, and the old
est only seven.
Lord Lansdowne promises to writes
| no book about Canada when he re-
turns to England.
Lester Walleck, the genial actor,
expects TO come south soon in search
OF health and recreation.
Mr. Beecher, like Rev. Joseph Cook,
| has his objection to newspapers, but
it's when the type is too small
Joaquin Miller is one of a small
band who have agreed that their fu-
neral expenses shall not exceed SO.
The dead must be wrapped in the
sheet upon which he dies, placed in a
box and 20 at once under the sod. ,.
The pomp of heraldry, the pride of
power, all that beauty, all that wealth
ser gave, await alike the inevitable
hour; the path of glory leads but to
the grave. Colonel Bethune, Blind
Toms master, was dragged to death
under the wheels of a moving train
at Wilmington, Delaware, the 18th
instant.
General jackson was the first presi-
dent to inaugurate the custom of
shaking hands with all who came TO his
public levees. Before that time the
populace had merely made respect
full obeissance to the President as
their names were announced, but Old
Hickory. who despised all pomp and
affection and was nothing ii not DEM
ocratic, took every hand in his firm
and honest grip.
Kate Kane, Chicag0's new female
lawyer, is described as follows She
is short and plump, and her large,
broad face is surrounded with mass
of very black hair, which is worn in
heavy ringlets, A dark complexion
and very black eyes make up the re-
mainder of her facial appearance.
Her dress is black, and the only relief
to'her dark makeup is white ruffie
and knot Of light-blue ribbon at the
| throat.
Mr.. Horatio Ross, the veteran Brit
ish deer stalker, who has Just cele..
brated his golden wedding. has spent
seventy seasons ON the moors. and
now, when eighty-threey years old, is still
capital shot. A little over year
ago he went out one day at three
o'clock in the morning, fired eighty
three shots and brought down eighty
! three birds. His eldest son won The
first queens prize at Wimbledon, and
his second son was for years the cham
| pion marksInan of India.
| 1t is said that Prince Frederick
Charles of Prussia gets on big DRINKS
semi-occasioDally and that he winds
them up by going home and beating
his wife, who has endured it until il
has become intolerable, and now asks
| for separation. This wife-beateT Is
a nephew of the Emperor Wilhelm.
| John Barleycorn will invade the pal
ace just as quick as he will the hovel.
The Good Templars should take
charge of Charles.
Since the retirement of Charles
O'Connor, the most prominent figure
at the New York bar is uDqaestion-
ably William II. Evarts. He can OUT
eat, outdrink and outtalk any three
men, and all at once, too. At the
Beecher trial, judge, jury and counsel,
at one time or another, all succumbed
to illness except Eyarts. He contin-
ued without intermission to spin his
diurnal sentences, starting with the
subject in the morning and closing
with the predicate in the evening, both
hyphened through the MONDAY by q
chapter of Cicero. And a murderer
in Texas is said to have lately reed -
a regular William M. Evarts sepfence
ninety-nine years.