The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-22
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a Connecticut man has machine
with which General Grant used to
split leather.
Ex-Secrotary Chandler says he was
responsible for the big butter contract
of the Greeley relief expedition.
1t is said that William ID. Howells
has become much embarrassed by the
failure of James X. Osgood n Co.
Noltaire's heart is 10 be removed
from the national library of the Pan.
theon, according to a vote ofthe coun.
ell of the Seine.
The late Sir Moses Montefiore FIRE.
quently sent checks for the relief OF
his needy coreligionist in Boston, and
never less than $500 at once.
Charles Il. Barker, Boston's cham.
pion checker player, is anxious to
play A. j. Hcilncr of Providence "A
checker match for $500 side and the
championship.
Ex.Marsbal Bazaine, the surrender
er OF Metz, Is said to be an inpecu-
NOUS sponger on nomadic French
men in Madrid, or what the New
York yernacular calls "bum."
j. Il. flaming, of Newton county,
Mississippi, was wounded in the face
in 1868. Lastweek the bullet fell into
his mouth, having been twenty-five
years working an inch downward.
Minister Lothrop is still assisting
Minister Kelley In diplomatic duties
at the gay capital of France, but then
there il more 10 do and much more
TO see IN Paris than there il in st
Petersburg or Vienna
Count Stainach, court Interpreter of
Wcstchcster county, n. Y, has fallen
heir to u large fortune in Austria
through the death OF an aunt. The
estate comprises extensive lands aud u
castle aud about $4,000 in cash
Two youhg Philadelphia sportsman
were recently freed for whole day
up in Potter county by a bear which,
as was aticrward found out, was per-
tectly tame-an escaped pet; but they
paid $50 for the privileges OF shoot
ing it.
Edward Strauss has many manner.
isms when conducting an orchestral
concert. According to London
journal he "twirls his violin in the air,
dances 10 his own music and rushes 10
and fro; he mcnaces musician to the
right with his bow, to the lett with his
fiddle. lie smiles. he weeps; he is par
ticularly TO the English mind, quite
absuri.n
Professor Brusch has returned to
Berlin from Persia, after spending
mcnths in that country in the collcc-
ton OF notes to be used IN literary
works. Among his collections IL a
volume of poems and u tragedy by the
Shah, which Professor Brusch propos.
es to translate. lie says that all
plays in Persia are of a religious char.
acicr and that no scenery whatever is
used.
Congressman Reagan of Texas, who
is accused by the San Antonio Times
of having n gubernatorial bee IN his
bonnet, was interviewed by that paper
several days ago. lie had nothing to
say on the subject excepting that the
were all good men, but
asCribed the presidents slowness in
making appointments to his desire 10
to strictly enforce the civil service
rules.
DIR. Delaunay, an eminent French
physician, says that the
most general position in
sleep is on the right side.
Dreams which come to sleeper in
that position, he says, asa rule are il
logical, absurd, mil OF yivacity and ex-
aggeration. Those which come to
sleeper who lies upon his left side, IN
Dclaunay's opinion, are not only less
absurd, but also more intelligent.
They are apt TO be concerned with re.
cent actual events and less with |
Berlin papers annouce with evident
satisfaction that MinisterPendlcton, to
whom they vouchsaie the name of
Gentleman George has taken u
large apartment fronting the Thicr-
garten, and is about to enrich Berlin
with another cosmopolitan saloon. If |
their reports be correct, Mr., Pcndlc-
ton has brought three elegant car
riagcs aud fine horses with him. Con-
Raine is furnishing quar- |
ters in the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, which
he intends to make social rendeh-
yous for American visitors in the Ger