The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-09
PERSONS AND THINGS

Mr.. James Russell Lowell has set
tied quietly down with his family in
Boston.
Viscount Trcden, French swell,
has been sentenced to imprisonment
for wife-beating.
II is proposed in Washington to give
Miss Cleveland place on the public
school board.
EX-Presidcnt White of Cornell has
the largest and best private historical
| library in the country,
Martin Van Buren,, grandson of
President Van Buren,, died suddenly
of heart disease in New York Tues
day.
Miss Mamie lngcrsoll. niece of the
famous colonel, is leading Saratoga
belle, neither blonde nor brunette, but
quite beautiful.
General Toombs is on record in an
autograph album as answering the
question, "If not yourself who had
YOU rather bcT' with the word "Glad-
stone"
"Ouida,"-or Louise de Ia Rance,
or Mary Ann Stubs, As the reader
may prefer to call hers, they say,
about to be married. She is fat, fair
and 5O-odd.
Gortschakoil, after the Berlin con-
ferancc, comparing Lord Bca'
consiield's colleague, the pres
ent Prime Minister Lord
salisbury, with Bismarck, said
"he was wood painted to look like
iron,'
Princess Beatrice has "well-now-
Henry wc'll-iust-see- cN-
preston which would put Il more ex'
perienCcd person than Herr Battcn
bug on his guard, SAYS Henry Wat
terson in his lively paper.
Nothing so piqucs thrifty woman
! curiosity aud eurages her rs To have I
! newsboy fleet adowu the street abou
1880 IL III. believing "EresyercNtry
rurble woggle wogglc loo! All 'bou
I the splsion n death nj cresycreNtry.
. "Dog gone III has been cited a
General Grants only oath, or excla
, , nation; but people forget that when
/ two years ago, he crossed kinzal
9 bridge he enriched the English lau'
! guage with the remark; "Judus Prizes
, how high we are"
July has been fatal month fol
presidents and ex-presidents. Joh'
Adams and Thomas Jefferson die,
A July 4. 1926; Monroe July 4, 1881; Tay
lor, July 8, 1850; while in Office, an'
Grant, July %, 1885; while GARFIELD
received his death wound upon tn
2nd OF the some month 1881.
Dallas, Texas, claims TO be the mos
= striking example of growth in tn
southern states. In 1928 it wa
only clump of unpretentious ware
"A houses and shanties ON the Trinit!
u now tits solidly built over MI area eX
tending back two miles from the ri'
er, aud has population over $500
V A cigarette manufacturer at Mer
den, Connecticut, contemplates hirin
readers, who are to sit i'll the cent?
of the work-rooms and read alou
M from the newest novels to the cmplo
rs. lie has imported the idea froi
Havana, where il Is said to be emplo
90 ed with success, diminishing the 10
of time through the gossip and noi'
chatter of the girls.
A prominent Worcester man IN
General Grant at the Fifth Aven'
hotel just before he sailed for ms 10
eiun tour. In the course of the co
- versation the general was asked VI
YOU sail IRON New York; Ills a
Is, swer was: "No, SIR; sail by an Anne
can line from Philadelphia. pref
- to sail under the American hai
Springfield Republican.
Recently the archbishop of Dub
(Lord PlunkeD in opening a chur
bazaar at Kiugstown, spoke in iav
a. of bazaars, and declared himself
'i favor of rallies, which were not,
or said, incentives TO gambling. lie h
. himself invested in more than 800 r
DE lies, but had never secured PR
iea This in itself, he considered, should
n decided deterrent to gambling.