Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-15
NEWS NOTES.


A grandmother. only twenty-five
years old is the chief curiosity in
Handbook, Ind.
The artificial egg factory in New
ark, N. j., has collapsed. As an egg
producer the hen is still king.
Edward Everett Hale is reported at
work on life Of Christ, to be written
from liberal, rational standpoint.
M. DeLesscps has just entered up
on his eighty fourth year and seems
to lose none Of his extraordinary phys
zeal vigon
The writer Of book on dancing cs-
Inmates that eighteen waltzcs' are
equal to about fourteen miles Of
straight work. J.i4
Susan A. Anthony denies that she
ever snubbcd DR.. Mary Wake. She
says that there have been no breeches
between them.
The experiment Of rice cultivation
has been successfully tried in Cali.
fornia. There are large tracts Of land
adapted to this grain.
Westinghouse, the inventor, who
has made half dozen millions out Of
his air brakes, once offered to sell it
outright for 100000.
Jane Hading was disappointed be-
cause divorces can not be purchased
in Chicago for Eve or ten francs
apiece. She wanted to take one back
to Paris with her. 5t
The Taylors of Tennessee are in pub
lie life to the extent of Bob being
democratic governor of the state and
ALT being republican member Of con-
gress. The old man is prohibition
list and got nothing, but he lives in
hope.
An eccentric bachelor of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, who was recently willed'
5000, 900 on condition that he marry
within five years, has since been
flooded with proposals. They come
from women in all parts of the
country.
1t is not the proper thing now to ex-
hibit wedding presents except to i'm
mediate relatives and intimate friends
of the family. At a recent fashiona-
BILE wedding in Washington the pres
ents were not displayed at all.
John Stewart Kennedy of New York
city, has purchased the Murtly and
Grantully estates in Perthshire, from
Sir Douglass Stuart, and he proposes,
in future, to pass half Of each year in
Scotland. This extensive property,
covering about $4,000 acres, includes
some of tho most famous grousemors
in ..the Highlands" notably Loeb
Kennard, Rohallion and Dromour.
The princess Of Wales inherits her
unfortunate deafness from her mother
and not from her father, says the Pail
Mall Gazette. But the queen of Dem
mark makes up, like her daughter, for
weakness in her ears BY exceptional
brilliance in her eyes. 1t is from her
mouth, too, that the princess inherits
her gift of perennial youth, for the
queen, though now we'll stricken in
years, looks at least ten or fifteen years
younger than she is.
Phil DAILY, the gambler, says the
New York Sun, got his great start in
life by winning 500, 900 on Mr.. Cleve-
lands election in 1884, and is said to
have bet the same way this year,
though he settled his bets with loss
Of only about $12, 900. It is said that
in four years just passed he has in
creased his wealth to about quarter
million dollars. He is one Of those
sporting men, not so uncommon after
all, that neither drink, smoke nor
chew. saws
"Freddy" Gebhsrdt effects sombre
attire altogether, a shapely black
flannel long-skirted frock coat, loose
sheperd's trousers, negligent black
satin scarf tied by himself and fas-
tened by small black pearl pin, i'm
maculate white CATERS weather per-
mitting-patent leather shoes, shaped
like the ace Of spades, and lavender
gray gloves, guiltless Of wrinkle.
This is his style. He wears two plain
rings to each of which is sttached
grand listoirette and he smokes thirty
five cent cigars day.
Erastus Wiman is short, thick
set, commonplace looking man, with a
large head and large income. He is
Canadian by birth, and got up a
very elaborate entertainment at the
Metropolitan opera house on the occa-
sion Of Queen Victoria's jubilee, in
the hope, people said, Of being knight
ed, but he still remains plain Mr.. Wi
man. He lives on Staten Island, and