The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-13

The president enjoys the society OF
literary men.
Mr.. Damala, IL is rumored, contem.
plates applying for divorce from
Bernhard.
Should Justice Coleridge's married
life turn out unhappily, he eau grant
himself divorce.
Ex-Governor Dillingham; of YER
mont fell down a stairway last week,
breaking leg. lie is Sc years old.
Angelo, the murderer of General
Prim, is now in spain, and 1t Is feared
he is plotting an attempt ON the life of
King Alfonso.
The Buffalo Advertiser estimates
Colonel lngersoll's fortune al 100000
and says he has made half of this out
oi his inidel lectures.
The substitution of G eneral Roberts
for General Stewart as commander in
chief of the Indian army is possibly a
a concession TO the lingo element of
the conservative party, since he is
known to be in favor OF doing some
Afghan fighting If he has the oppor-
tunity.
The monument to the illustrious
philanthropist, Peter Cooper, has
never been completed. How soon we
illustrious philanthropists are forgot
ten.
List, the pianist, settles the "Abbe"
question by saying that he never was
priest, having only taken minor or
dcrs which are sometimes accorded to
laymen.
Beecher has received n hundred diff
fcrent letters threatening assassination
but he keeps right on piomulgating
new doctrines aud does not lose mo.
ments sleep.
Snow two feet deep was found last
week by Bennington, VI, man under
sawdust near his mill. Vermont, il
will be remembered, is the home OF
Senator Edmunds.
John Everett Millais, who is nearly
seven ct tall and stands highest
among the London artists, is now al
work on the third portrait of W. T.
Gladstone he has painted this year
The Prince of Wales goes to more
balls and dances more than any mar.
ried man of his time of life in London
Indeed. there is scarcely any bachelor
over forty who does SO much in thi,
| line.
Colonel Fred Grant will not write 0
, biography of his father, because lac
realizes that the public want the gen
caral's book and not his. He feels
that If he should write n book IL would
fall Hat lie feelsIight.
On the rendering of the verdict OF
guilty, Riel, the Ca madam rebel, mad,
a speech of over two hours. The jury
was obliged to submit, painfully con
oious OF the impossibility OF making
| the verdict any more severe.
Don Cameron sends word from
southern, California that the reports o
his improved health are too catering
and that he will not return to Penn
| sylvauia in time for the November
election, nor reach Washington unit
just before the meeting of congress in
| December.
Joshua Montefoire, an uncle of the
/ late Sir Moses, was the first Hebrew
commissioned in the British army. liz
was the author or compiler OF "com
mercial and nautical precedents.
"rhc commercial dictionary" ant
other notable works, and after travel
ing in nearly every country ON tn
globe he settled down III his SOth yea
to end his days as Il recluse at st. Al
bans, Vermont.
Like General Grant, the first Napo
leon died of cancer. In his case tn
cancer was in the stomach instead o
the throat. 1t caused him much Sc
vercr pain than Grant suffered. To
ward the last he could not digest hi
food lie was tormentcd by con
slant thirst His pulse beat with fever
ish quickness. lie improved, gre,
worse, and had all the hope, depres
sion, and dispair that marked Grant
illness. unlike the American soldier
he did not retain his mental iacultie
to the last.