The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-30
PERSONAL.
Chronicle of Celebrities : Paragraph,
About People of Prominence

PEhSONAL.
Chronicle of Celebrities Paragraphs
About People of Prominence
Prof. Agissiz is still in very poor
health.
Charles Francis Adams, third of the
name, is class president of the Har-
ward freshmen.
Levi w. Golf, of Lancaster, Pa, has
the old bull's-eye watch once carried
by Ben Franklin.
1t is reported that King Alfonso'S
i'll health is due to poisoning through
Cuban Vaccinations.
Miss Nellie Holbrook, of California,
is on the stump for the republicans in
Indiana and is speaking every day.
Madame Albani has had the honor
of singing before the Queen and royal
family several times lately at Bal
moral.
George Gray, who has been the
states attorney in Delaware for five
years. has been reappointed Ivy Gov.
Stockley.
The late Henry J. Byron wrote alto
gether about sixty plays, for which he
received nearly 100000. His will was
proved for $4,000.
Lord-Mayor-elect Nottgate, of Lon.
don, is 30, president of a Photographic
company, has been an alderman and
sheriff, is good-lookiDg, and liberal in
politics.
Princess Wilhelmina, whose right
to the throne of Holland has Just Teen
amicably settled, is little tOddler of
four years OF age, in the royal nursery
at the Hague.
DR.. Spann, of New York city, has
obtained a verdict of 1929 fees for at
tendance on Gen. Sickles' father. It
is said to be the biggest fee awarded
any medical man in New York city.
All Boston is indignant that the
late Jim Fisk's coachman, resident in
that city, has so far lowered the rec
ord as to run away with gentleman's
portable property instead of his daugh-
ter.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
story writer, is again living at HIATT
ford. She is 72 years old. Mrs. Stowe
began to earn her own living at
school teaching when she was a girl
of fifteen.
Joaquin Miller, the professional
poet, has arrived in New Orleans,
where he expects to stay through the
winter, and possibly he may be invited
to write and deliver the opening ode
for thegreat exposition.
The humorous Mark Twain must
feel that the Italians have got the
best Of him just once. A Florence
iC troy lafi -
the works of Marco Duo, further
translated as Samuelo Langhorne
Clemensini.
Prof. Tyler, of Oxford, who came
to this country to attend the Science
Association meeting and has been
making tour among the Zuni and
Mojave Indians of New Mexico, is
said to be striking resemblance to
the poet Tennyson.
After all it turus out that Belva A.
LockWood's canvass is mere adver-
Using dodge for her threatened CON-
ing course of public lectures, just as,
after all, his book agents seem to have
made the most profit out of Blaine's
magnetic tour through Ohio.
The Bach monument recently un-
yelled at Eisenachiis declared to be one
of the finest in Germany. 1t is cast
in bronze and represents Bach in an
upright position at a music desk,
which is in the form OF little genius
as Caryatide. A high relief in bronze
shows st. Cecilia at the organ.
Dwight L. Moody and Mr.. Sankey
are at work in Brooklyn. OF the
former it is said that "he brings tears
to the eyes of the listeners by his word
pictures of the punishment of those
who have trangressed." Mr.. Moody
has grown stouter since his last visit
to the City of Churches, three years
ago, and gray threads his hair.
Husband Langtry does not oppose
divorce but prefers to appear as plain
tiff, but as this would necessitate
whitewashing mot painting, as Shake
speare suggests) the Lily, it is sur
missed that some arrangement will be
made by which he will rest On his
oars in his new life-boat while Lily
paddles her own canoe through the
court.
Victoria's wedding gift to the Am
erican belle, Miss Ida Therese Foote,
of diamond bracelet and gold
breakfast service is fairly extraordin-
airy, since the queens usual present on
such occasions, even to daughters of
mobiles, is one of the camel's hair
sent to her by the bale every year
from whoever may be the viceroy of
India.
Jefferson Davis, in his flight after
the collapse of the Confederacy, aban-
doned his horse fewsmiles from Ma
con and took TO the woods. On the
horse was silver-mounted saddle,
such as the heroes of fiction were
won't to bestride. The saddle has
been recovered after the lapse of nine
teen years, and a Georgian sent it
back to Mr.. Davis as present and
memento.
Henry Grady, sick with a slow fe-
yer in Atlanta, got from his doctor a
prescription that read thus: Spring
water, fresh milk, country air. cattle,
clover, hay goats, trees, buttermilk,
shady lanes, hunting and fshing-to
he taken away from towns and news
papers. This was smart advance
from pellets to spring pullets-and
Grady is milking Jersey COWS with his
own hands on Georgia farm.