The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-07
MEN OF MARX.

Martin Farquhar Upper has Just
completed his 10Th year.
Fred Gebhardt is still seen in Lon.
don occasionally in Mrs. Langtry's 80.
ciety.
Congressman Collins Of Massachu
setts, has declined a banquet that VA
rendered TO him by Dublin admir-
| ers.
DIR. Sotomayer, Mexican antigua
rian, has written u work which pur
ports TO be key to the Aztec hero
glyphics.
george Washington Childs has il
his office the portrait OF Genera
Grant and the emperor of Chin,
taken together.
Ex-Governor Gleason, of Florida
says that the culture of pineapples in
his state will soon be OF moreilnport.
ance than the culture of oranges.
All the British baronetcies are moi
going begging. Mr.. Il. N. Fowler,
a retired chandler, now mayor
of London, has kindly consented to
take one.
General Merritt is said to take an
especial pride In the class of West
Point cadets that will graduate from
that institution next year. II num-
bers eighty-three members, among
them being some of the brightest
young minds that have been trained
in that institution.
Pope Leo NH has not mastered
English pronunciation fully, and re-
Gently bewildered the Duke and
Duchess of Norfolk by what they
really thought of the character aud
ability of "Corkhill." IL took them
some time to determine that lie meant
Lord Randolph Churchill.
Professor Herbert Smith and his
party OF naturalist from Balti-
more, who have been for some time
in Brazil, have made collection OF
10000 specimens of insects, birds and
animals in eighteen provinces of the
empire. They will explore the valley
Of the Amazon this fall.
There are no hod carriers in Ger
many. Bricks are passed by hand.
The higher up the bricklayers are,
the more men are required to toss the
bricks. Two men to u story is about
the average,with enough more to lead
from the front of the building TO the
place where the bricks are needed.
Louis kossuth is living in the Lanzo
valley at the foot of the Savoy Alps.
Ia the fall he will take up his perina-
nent residence in Naples 80 rs to be
near his son Louis, who is employed
on the Italian State railway. His son
Francis Is manager of the sulphur
mines at Cessna, Italy.
1t is believed that Nj. Roach's assets
will amount to a much larger snm
than has been intimated. And If they
are rated by Mr.. Roach in proportion
to what he charges for "repairs" and
not what he pays for naval junk, they
undoubtedly will.
Robert &. Winthrop, who was at
deaths door so long last spring, is
now at Saratoga III vulgarly vigor-
Gus health, taking great interest in
currant affairs and occasionally ex-
pressing his satisfaction that he voted
for Grover Cleveland last Novem-
Der.
Stanley says that African sunlight,
with all its great heat, appears to him
as a superior moonlight, judging
from its effect ON scenery. lie attrib-
utes the apparent solemnity of the
"solumn looking hill" of which he so
often speaks to this peculiar sunshine.
at deepcns the shadows aud darkeus
the dark green foliage Of the forest,
while it imparts n appearance or
cold reflection of light to naked
slopes aud woodless top hills. Its eff
feet is chill ausierity, an indescriba-
BILE solemnity, a repclling unsoci-
bility