San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-07-19
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

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Congressman Mckinney. Of New Hamp.
shire, reads Hebrow.
Congressman Knutc Nelson, Of Minnesota,
Is n Norwegian by birth.
King Humbert, OF Italy, drinks nothing
but water at state dinners. F.
w.K. Vanderbilt has spent $500, 600 among
London bric-a-hrac dealers.
Bismarck seldom retires before o'clock in
tho morning. He gets up at noon.
Abbotsford, Sir Walter scott's homo, has
been lot TO q Liverpool ship broker.
Mr.. Gladstone s going TO shave try" at
Col lngersoll in ono OF our magazines. SO.
John l.. Sullivan once drove. q street car
In Boston for tho paltry sum OF " per day.
Richard Mansfield, the actor, speaks Eng
lish, French, German and Italian with oqual
easc.
Minister Bragg has made a hit In Mexico.
So far no has deiled all efforts OF the rareiied
air to shake his nerves
Lord Duirerln, latc governor general Of
Canada, Is TO be raised step In tho peerage
for his services In India.
Ex-senator Bruce is visiting his mother In
Kansas She is 90 years old, and she was
formerly a slave in Virginia.
DIR. Schlicmann has set out for the east
with the firm determination OF finding the
real tomb Of Alexander the Great
The Marquis of Londonderry, lord licutcn-
mt of Ireland, has had conferred upon him
the vacant knighthood of the garter.
The sultan has given q pair of splendid
Arab horses to the French ambassador at
Constantinople, ono being for his wife.
The Rev. bartholomew Edwards, rector Of
Ashhill, Norfolk, is the Oldest clergyman IN
England, having just completed his lOoth
year.
Henry Labouchcre says that one of Queen
yictorias drawing rooms" Is, speaking
generally q very indecent and ugly exhi-
bition.
Ye Wan Yong, Yo IIa Yung md VI Hun
Yong, the secretaries OF the Corean legation
at Washington, have started out ON tour OF
the country.
Joseph Willard, the proprietor Of Willard's
hotel, Washington, is worth Sl3,OOOOOO. He
began life as one Of the portersin the hotel
that he now owns.
William O'Brien, M. p, worked out the
idea of novel while in prison, but having
no writing materials was not able to commit
his thoughts to paper. 70
The Prince of Naples, crown prince OF
Italy, is, IL is rumored, a candidate for tie
hand of Princess Sophie, daughter Of Eth
peror Frederick of Germany.
Capt. ]. b. Coffin, of Massachusetts,, OK
poets to have jolly time as American con-
sui at st. Helena. He will have TO be Ma
poleon of cheerfulness If he does
The new Duke Of Rutland, Lord John
Manners, inhcrits 10000 acres Of land, five
mansions and about $780, 900 annual income
from his brother, the bachelor duke.
When Judge Gresham is In evening dress
he is considered by his friends the most at
tractive man living 1t is supposed that he
will wear dress coat at the convention next
sammer.
Senator Chace, Of Rhode Island, Is the only
member of the United States senate who III
vays wears swallow tailed coat, while At
torney General Garland prides himself on
never having owned one
Stenographer d. i. Murphy has been the
reporter of the United States senate for
nearly forty years He has reported Clay,
Webster and Cass, and later Sumner, Sow
ard and other famous men.
Austen Chamberlain, eldest son of the
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, is to enter
parliament. He has been studying in Berlin,
and it is said that Prince Bismarck took q
great fancy to him and frequently enter
tanned him at dinner.
Cypbert II. Gillette, Of Keokuk, Ia, is q
veteran of the late war who is now totally
blind. For fifteen years he has been unsuc-
cessfully applying for u pension. His claim
has Just been allowed, and he will receive
about $4,000 in arrears.
One OF the newspaper men In congress, and
one of the youngest members OF the house as
well, is Jacob Yost editor OF The Valley
Virginian, of Staunton. His boyish face is
innocent Of beard, and he looks half a dozen
years younger than he really is.
Alexander Dumas sat down one night not
long ago and wrote single act play before
he quit tho work. which lasted from 3 O'Clock
In the evening till 2:30 in the morning He
drank eight cups OF black coffee while he
wrote and converted twenty-nine cigarettes
into ashes
Gen. Lew Wallace, the author Of "Ben
Hur," is said to be distrcssingly absent
minded He has been known when at break
fast to put two hcaping teaspoonfuls OF
sugar OH soft boiled egg, and then, almost
before the laughter had died away, to salt
his coffee with great deliberation.
The sultan Of Morocco takes great pleasure
in tho short line of railroad presented to him
by the king or the Belgians. IL is his
majesty's great delight 10 climb into the sa'
loon car and whisk around the palace
grounds, while his dutiful subjects gaze in
wonder upon the strange conveyance.
George Gollop, of Strobe, Dorsetshire
England, is about 10 celebrate his 9Sth birth
day with great festivity. He isa representa-
tive Of a very ancient family In the west oi
England, and succeeded TO its estates in f7s2
He Is doubtless the doyen Of the English
snuirearchy, and when nearly 80 was ths
father Of twins.
Gen. Baron Won Loe, London; Gen. Count
Won Iehndorf, Vienna; Gen. Won Werder
ST. Petersburg; Prince Won Hohenlohe-Ingel
fingen, ROme: Gen. Prince Won Radziwill
Madrid and Lisbon; Gen. Count Won Alten
Paris. and Prince Hatsfeldt- Trachenberg, u
the Vatican, make up the list Of the newly
appointed German ambassadors.
Whenever Emperor William went 70 hi
study window 20 acknowledge a military a
Iute he invariably butto0ed his coat. To I
general. who asked him why he Eas % cere
nlouious, he said: The soldiers have nevel
sen me with my cat unbuttoned, and thel
never shall II Il the one button left unbut
toned that Is the ruin q the army"