The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-09-02
mEN OF MARK.

Colonel L. II. Hoge, ono of the pro.
prietors of the Atlanta Evening Jour.
nal, is dead.
Sir Charles Dixie. II il said, is pro
pairing TO settle on Dakota cattle
rancho
Edgar Allan Poe's works have jus
been newly translated and published
In France.
All the relatives of of ex-vice-Pres-
ident Wheeler have died during the
past ten years.
II is a notable fact that the invent
or of the Calling gun peacefully re-
sides in the same city with Marx
Twain.
Emperor William of Germany al
ways has chapter from the bible
read TO him Immediately after din
ner.
Ex-Minister TO Japan Bingham has
had his departure from that country
deplored in column after column OF
the Japanese papers.
IL is said that Lieutenant Governor
Warwick of Ohio will be a candidate
for governor, provided Governor
IIoadly refuses denomination.
The possibility OF lighting the city
of Paris by a single great light upon
a high column is beng again discuss-
ed by French engineers.
Millionaire Boyd, the glass import
err, sentenced in New York to two
years in Jail for deirauding the gov
ernmeut, is still in the hospital ward
of the Kings county penitentiary
The Home Rule members of par
Lament have arranged to give a grand
banquet TO Mr.. Parnell in Dublin ON
August "a. TO celebrate the recent
parliamentary triunphs of the Irish
party.
win Carleton, the poet, is soon TO
issue volume OF new poems, under
the title "City Ballads" IL will be
companion piece TO the "Farm Bal
lads" of his earlier days.
The inventor of lawn tennis is
probably known to only small
fraction of the host of dcvotees o
that game. lie is Major Walter
Wingfrld, of her majesty's body
guard, aud he brought out the game
in 1874 under the outlandish name
"Sphairistike."
Roscoe Conkling has written from
Carlsbad to friend in Buffalo that
he is enjoying himself greatly aud Is
In the best of hcalth-and In good
doubtless, TO prepare that
address on General Grant.
Mr.. Hubert ilerkomer, who sue
ceeded John Ruskin, as Slade Pro-
fessor at Oxford, is well known TO
artists in this city aud even better
known in Boston, where he lived in
1SS3-Si, and painted n number OF
portraits of prominent people.
Mr.. A. 5. Abel, the proprietor of
the Baltimore Sun, celebrated his |
sevcnty-sixth birthday on the 10th |
inst. lie Is summcring at Atlantic |
City, and is as hale and hearty as u
large fortune outside of journalism
by judicious investments III railway |
and real estate enterprises.
Hon. Sir Lionel 5. Sackvillc West,
British Minister at Washington, is
described Ms Il small, slight-bald man,
by no means British with pomp, who
OH entering the drawing-room looks
rs If hunting for quiet corner in
which to sit down. When once
drawn into conversation he is very |
but usually there is II
sad, tired look in his handsome eyes.
There has just been admitted TO
the military school at We'll
burg, in Germany youth
with n curious name, and al
still more curious history. He is
called Sedan Bohme. Young Bohmc
is one of very few who can claim TO
have first seen the light on the field
of battle. just after the battle of
Sedan, In the Franco-Prussiau wal, II
sutler belonging TO the German force
gave birth TO child, and il was forth.
with christcned with the name of this
decisive struggle. The crown prince
acted as sponsor. and Silesian bat
TALON of chasseurs, now stationed at
Gorlitz, took the infant under its es-
pecial protection. The son of the
regiment has continued with his mil
itary protectors until quite recently,
receiving frequent tokens of the in-
terest taken In him by the crown
prince, and enjoying the marked care
and attention of the battalion. IL
was naturally decided that Sedan
Bohme should follow the trade of
war aud.so he has Just begun study
In the Weilburg school,