The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

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M. Bartholdi will sail from Havre for New
York by the steamship La Bretagne, Oct. 16
Mr.. John Boyle O'Reilly dedicates his hook
OF poems, SIN Bohemia" to his -four little
daughters"
STANLEY, the African explorer, who is ahnnt
10 return to this country, is said to of
Welsh descent
Nine. Adam got, as editor of La Nouvelle
Revue, $4,000 a year salary and 50 COO a year
more for entertainment expenses, etc.
The volcanic peak, Pabloff mountain, 500
miles southeast of Kodiak, on the Alaska pen
lnsula, is reported in state of eruption
A Montana stockman has standing offer
OF $4,000 to any one who will insure his
range cattle this winter and make good all
losses
Among the regular attendants at the camp
meeting which lately closed at Ocean Grove
wSe Mrs U. S. Grant and her two sisters,
Mrs. Cramer and Mrs. Potter.
Five hundred million dollars were repre-
sented at the wedding of Miss Rita Armstrong
and Mr.. A. J. Drexel, the bankers son, at
Elberon, the other day. Among the presents
were 100000 to the bridegroom
Joel c. Harris C'Uncle Remus0, who has
had months vacation, taken because of his
health, does not improve, and has gone into
the mountains for another month He has a
nervous affection which has SO far resisted
medical treatment.
Mrs. U. S. Grant is DESTROYS of selling her
cottage at Long Branch Housekeeping all
the year round tells on her strength, and with
the cottage out of her possession she could,
she thinks, obtain a beneficial respite from
household cares by travelling about in the
summer.-New York Letter
The Empress Eugene has been recon-
mended to try the Italian climate during the
Forthcoming winter as she is DESTROYS of liv-
ing very quietly. Pisa is the spot which will
probably be selected. Inquiries have already
been made as to which of the many palaces
at Pisa would be obtainable.- York
| Post.
M. Meissonier has left Paris for Venice to
complete on the spot large canvas he COM
menced last year, in which nearly 300 figures
are represented. He paints every morning
in st. Marks, sitting astride on a chair at the
foot of pillar, with his box of colors on the
floor beside him. The painting will represent
a corner of the chapel of the Madonna, one of
the artistic gems of the famous basilica. Paris
Letter.
Governor Porter, of Indiana, finds himself
embarrassed in writing his history of Indiana
from the fact that so few, comparatively, of
the public documents of the state have been
preserved Nevertheless, by searching the
federal as well as private records he has been
oh 70 oh toin lnH, -
and accuracy. The book will be ready for
the printers early in 1SS7-Chicago Times.
Andrew Carnegie is building on the sum-
init of the Alleghenies, near Cresson Springs,
house, or castle, which will cost 81 900, 900.
| The entire walls will be built up altogether
| of the undresSed surface stone which is to be
found on the place, and they are not to show
in any place single mark of the clsel or
hammer. Mr.. Carnege's orders are positive
on this point he having expressed wish to
have, as far as possible, even the moss on the
rocks used in the walls undisturbed. Chicago
Tribune.
Mr.. John D. Lankenau, president of the
| German hospital at Philadelphia, has begun
the erection of the Mary Drexel home on the
| grounds of the institution as memorial to
his deceased wife. 1t will be a Gothic struc-
ture of stone, three stories high, with three
towers-one 200 feet high and the others $50;
have frontage of 245 feet, with two wings As
feet wide and extending back l05 feet 1t will
take nearly two years to complete the build
ing, which will be furnished with picture
gallery and library.-Boston Transcript.
The Chevalier John Sartain, of Philadel-
phia, long distinguished as an engraver, is
almost SO and very vigorous. He introduced
mezzotint into America, established a maya
zine, fed and clothed Edgar A. Poe, received
decorations from half a dozen European po-
tentates, managed the art department of the
Centennial exhibition, still occupies the house
to which he brought his bride from England
sixty years ago, and next spring will proceed
to London to take charge of the art depart
ment of the Forthcoming American exhibit
tion.-Harper's Bazaar
Gen. Adam Badeau, author of "Aristocracy
in England" is short and heavy set. He and
Tom Ochiltree have the same stocky build
only the Texan is somewhat taller. The gen
eral III his everyday attire might be taken
for a prosperous farmer He wears sack
coat of dark material and trousers to suit.
| He has a full sandy colored beard, cropped
off as smoothly as grass in well cared for
parterre. He walks with brisk, quick step,
and has a sharp eye. In conversation,
though he doesn't "shoot pigeons" as Dom
Piatt said of President Cleveland but looks
you straight in the face. His writings about
Gen. Grant and "Arstocracy in England
have made him snug little fortune. He is
said to be always busy writing, having
plenty of material on hand to draw FROM
New York Mail and Express.
With his detective camera under his arm,
so disposed as to suggest gripsack, and thus
to disarm suspicion, Mr.. w. Hamilton Gibson
caught on the fly hundreds of characteristic
attitudes, costumes and facial expressions dur
ing his recent trip south. Among his instan-
taneous photographs are several that illustrate
the process of telling the huge expresses of the
Louisiana swamps, views of the cypress re,
ceiving its first blow from the "swampers'
AK, or just beginning to swerve from the per
pendicular, or falling with grand splash into
the water, Or abandoned by the "swamper' In
his FIGHT from dancer Some of the old slaves