The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-03-19
PERSONAL.

Horatio King, Jr., is much talked
of as Swaim's successor.
Mr.. Steinitz, the expert in chess, is
pulling the Layers in Boston.
Senator "Cerro Gordo" Williams is
SAID to be anxious to be made Minister
to Mexico.
Mr.. Tilden's yacht, the Viking, was
decorated with flags from stem to
stern on March 4.
Ex-Governor Waller, of Connectt1-
cut, his friends say, is to be made Con-
sui General to London.
MIR. Van Wyck fuses three desks to
pound on" while addressing the Sen
ate on land grant subjects.
Frederick Horn, q schoolmate of
Prince Bismarcks, publishes an Eng
lish country newspaper in WiscJn-
sin.
William Casey, of New Orleans, has
just died from cancer in the mouth,
which was caused, his doctors certify,
by smoking:
The King ofSiam, not yet 80 years
old, is said to have 263 children.
What blessed privilege it is to not
be King of Siam.
Joaquin Miller's mother has an epic
in manuscript in sixteen cantos.
They all dabble in poetry, she says,
and adds that she herself is as
much of poet as Joaquin.
James Gordon Bennett is cruising
southwardin his yacht, the Namouna.
Gen. Mcclellan is to deliver an ad-
dress at Antietam on Decoration day.
DR.. John Van Bidder, of Baltimore,
has been at work on the subject of
NERVOUS diseases among children. He
finds that such troubles as insomnia
and neuralgia are more frequent
among children than Is usually
thought and he looks on it as stupid
sin and shame that parents should
subject the little ones to mental
overpressure.
DIR. Leland, a Georgia physician
who died recently, was for a long
time unconscious before death. Re
viving, he told his family and friends
that his soul, separated from his body,
had seen all the weeping around his
old frame as it lay dead in the chair.
He was 10th to return to it, but was
forced by an impulse he could not re-
sist.
Abraham Lincoln is the hero of
still another one, to-wit: ga New
York firm applied to Abraham Lin
coin, some years before he became
President, as to the financial stand
ing of one of his neighbors. Mr.. Lin
coin replied as follows: yours of the
10th instant received. / am well ac-
quainted with Mr.. -, and know his
circumstances. First of all, he has
wife and baby; together they ought
to be worth $4,000 to any man.
Secondly, he has an Office in which
there is table worth $I.50 and three
chairs worth say 81. Last of all,
there is in one corner large rat-hole
which will bear looking into. Re-
specially yours, A. Lincoln
Signor Luigi Month makes the as
sertion, and asks us to believe it, that
Lucretia Borgia was a model wife
and mother, and that she deserved to
have been canoniZed as a saint far
more than some saints that have got
on the calendar. Signor Monti asks
too much. The old tradition is too
firmly grounded to be easily given up
At this late day
The London correspondent of the
San Francisco Arganaut (probably
an Englishman) says that it is gro. i;
tesdhe to imagine that Miss Chamber
lain has achieved a great triumph in |
the attentions she has received from |
the Prince of Wales HIS addresses
to English women are confined to |
those who have husbands; no unmar-
ried lady would be permitted to |
receive them. 1t strikes US that this |
is doubtful compliment to England's !
future King.
The Adventists in New Hampshire |
have firmly made up their minds that |
Seriptural prophessing, as well as
temporal wants in becoming there
with, positively point to the 10Th |
day of May (Which falls on Tuesday,
as that on which the Lord will come.
and the reign of milleniel glory set IN.
There have been, within our recol-
lection, many failures of such prophe-
syiDgs-some of which have not been
advantageous in the way of confirm
ing the religious sentiment of this
sect of ultra-adventists, which consti-
tute a very small, but very earnest,
element in our religious popula-
ton.