San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-16
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

The Harvard University crew will
initiate Yale by putting in rowing
tank for winter work.
Some of the Italians of New York
City who voted for Mayor-elect Grant
supposed, it is said, that they were
voting for the late General U. >.
Grant.
At the high-leaping contest, at the
horse show in Madison Square Gar
den, New York, Thursday night, Fred
Gebhard's hunter, Leo, cleared the
fence at nearly six feet six inches.
Mrs. Mona Card. who started the
discussion on as Marriage a Fail
ure ?n spends most of her time on a
large estate in Hampshire, England,
dividing her time between superin-
tending her farm and performing lit
erary work on typewriter. She Is
the author of two or three novels, and
is said to be brilliant conversation
alist.
The New York Mail and Express,
as is nationally recognized with a
pious smile, each day heads the first
column of its editorial page with Sc
lection from Scripture. What speci-
fic application to current affairs some
of these quotations have is not al
ways apparent, but the text of Thurs
day voices the feelings of several mil
lion republicans: II have fought the
good fight, l have finished the course,
I have kept the faith"
Governor Blake, of Newfoundland,
has been appointed governor general
of Queensland, the place recently
made vacant by the death of Sir An
thony Musgrave, son-in-laW OF
David Dudley Field, of New York.
A salary of $50, 900 and emoluments
which are said to be enormous have
made the office one of the most desir-
able in the gift of British govern
ment.
The new silver tops for penwipers
are among the fine things worth buy
ing for the writer's desk, because, al
though costly, they need no renewal,
but may be used for a lifetime. These
tops are rather simple in pattern, the
designs most used being rosette and
interlaced rings. The wooden pen
wiper leaves are of white and green,
arranged alternately, but as the tops
may be unscrewed, this detail may be
varied at will.
lone account of the slang phrase,
'in the SOUP" says the New York
Sun, lis that it first received its pop
ularity a. the Polo Grounds during a
game of ball between New York and
Chicago. The members of the Chi
cago club made their appearance in
full-dress suits, and were dubbed
to- hxy hA hsan
fered an ignominious defeat by the
score of 10 to 2, whereupon somebody
remarked that the walters were in
the SOUP The phrase spread through
the crowd like wild-fire, and the
cranks kept it up for many days after
W ards.
Mr.. Chamberlain and Miss Endicott
fell in love at first sight one night last
winter at the British Legation. Miss
Endicott was infatua ted with the
Englishman and he was charmed
with the pretty American girl. The
bride to be is finely educated, is an
excellent French scholar, and an ex-
cellent conversatiOnalist. She has
what is called an English girls COM
plexion, and she talks with the true
English accent. Her friends have
no doubt that she is perfectly quail
fled to fill any social position which
may fall to her lot as the wife of an
English commoner. Miss Endicott
will bring to her husband handsome
dowry.
A bicyclist rival of Thomas Stevens
is Mr.. Hugh Callan, Glasgow clergy
man, who, after wheeling from Paris,
entered COnstantinople on October l.
His route lay over France into Alsace
by Belfort, along the Rhine from
Basic to Constance, up the Arlberg
Pass to Innsbruck, over the Bremen
Pass, through Carinthia by Villach,
and Carniola by Laibach, through
Croatia by Agram, and down by the
Save to Semlin and Belgrade. From
Belgrade he rode down Servia to
Nisch, over the mountains to Prot
thence into Bulgaria, through the
Dragoman Pass to Sophia, over Ira
jams Pass to PhijippOpolis, and by
Adrianople and Silivria into Siam
boul. In all about l $50 miles. He
caught the fever in Servia and lay i'll
of it a week in Sophia. His intention
is to prolOng his journey on through
Asia Minor into Syria and Palestine
as far as jerusalem.
Many Chicagoans will be interested
in the following, from the New York
Sun of Friday: "Jere Dunn, the sport
ing man, or more properly, nOw-a-
days, the racing man, is to be married
tomorrow to very beautiful and at,
tractive young woman from Cam
bridge, Mass. She comes from an old
eastern family, is admirably connect
ed, and her people are thoroughly sat
isfied with her choice of a husband