The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-04
PERSONAL POINTS.


William Henry Bishop, the novelist, has
gone to Europe for the summer.
Prince Henry, the future admiral of the
German navy, is a matchmaker.
Ex-Persian Minister Benjamin has settled
down to his old life of art and letters.
Capt Carter, of the Yale University crew,
is nearly six feet and weighs 200 pounds.
While in Berlin Carl Schurz passes a good
part of his time in the Geological garden.
The Duke Of Marlborough will endeavor
to awaken an interest in trotting horses in
England.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
is now considered the best dressed man in
the house.
Robert Louis Stevenson was once arrested
in France. He is now writing up the officer
who arrested him.
Judge Elias Smith, who died recently in
Salt Lake City, left two widows, five sons
and seven daughters.
The Rev. F. j. Kennedy, young priest of
Philadelphia, is the new vice rector of the
American college in Rome.
Renshaw, the civil engineer, who is now a
brother-in-law of the Duke of Marlborough,
is man about G feet inches in height
Sir Morell Mackenzie has introduced a
gondola on the Thames German doctors
say that this is distinctly unprofessional.
j. G. Turnbull is the Jay Gould of Aus
tralia His fortune is estimated at S50,000,-
900 He is now visiting in Philadelphia.
Herbert Ward, the explorer, of whom
much is now heard in connection with Stan
ley, is nephew of Rowland Ward, the nat
uraliSt.
Ross A. Winans, who hires so many deer
forests in Scotland, has been sued by the
trustees of Lord Lovatt for e6,500 for rent
due, and condemned to pay.
Herr Tisza, the Austrian prime minister, is
Hungarian He was born in 1880, and is
very wealthy land owner having inherited
large estate from his father.
Lord Tennyson is great worker, but he is
also a great smoker He is reported as say
ing to friend in regard to a certain verse:
Il smoked dozen cigars over that line"
Edward George Washington Butler, of st.
Louis. is the Oldest living graduate of West
Point. He was graduated in 1918. He re-
NAMED in the army until 1S47, when he re-
signed
President Cleveland continues to receive
curious presents Two small, live red foxes
nave reached him from Dr. Frost, of Rolla,
Mo. The animals are named respectively
Cleveland and Thurman.
President David j. Hill, of Bucknell uni
versity, Pa, will accept the presidency Of
5he University of Rochester, with leave Of
absence to study philosophy and institutions
IN Europe for one year, with expenses paid
James Russell Lowell suffers severely from
govt, but obstinately refuses to comply with
MS physicians instructions. He has Joined
the committee in charge of the commemo-
ration of the bi-centenary of Alexander Pope.
Charles G. Leland is president of gypsy
lore society in England, which includes
among its members Sir Richard Burton,
Paul Batailliard, Archduke Joseph of Hun.
gary and other eminent authors and scholars.
A correspondent says that Samuel j. Ran.
lall has young son known as "Little Sam
Randall" who wears glasses and closely re-
sembles his father 1t is added also, that
the youth is as fat as butter, and as sharp as
as tack.
1t is whispered with some excitement among
Ward McAllister's select 200 that Eliot
Zborowski, the best catch of the day. has
been landed by a fair damsel who is now at
Newport, r. l. Zborowski has an income Of
100000 year.
Joaquin Miller is living the existence of a
hermit in the mountains near Oakland Cal
He is engaged upon a poem of some length,
entitled Legends of Christ" embodying
quaint stories picked up by Miller when he
lived in Levant.
Lord Charles Beresford is coming to this
country in October to join an expedition to
southern California, where there are said to
be miles of UNEMPLOYED country, presumably
as well stocked with gold mines as any other
part of California
Cornelius Collins, of the government bu-
reau of engraving and printing, has been a
most faithful and persevering worker. He
has lost only five days in the twenty-four
years during which he has been in the SER
vice of the government.
Mr.. Hosea H. Lincoln, for forty-two years
principal of the Lyman school, East Boston,
has just entered the ministry of the Unita-
rian church. He is 67 years old, but in
splendid health, and reasonably hopes to
perform many years service in his new field.
Paul Grottkau, the Chicago Anarchist, has
returned to the occupation of his earlier
years and has opened a photograph estab-
lishment near the historic Havmarket. With
strange inconsistency he refuses to take pic
lures for nothing. His is evidently mega
tive philosophy which does not apply to neg
atives.
Mr. Depew was a member of the Yale
class of 1856. Some of his classmates have
also attained distinction. Among them were
Gen. Wager Swayne, John D. Champlin, Jr.,
and the Rev. E. c. Towne, of New York;
Corporation Counsel E p Nettleton, of Bos.
ton, and Col John Mason Brown, of Ken.
lucky.
The degree of Doctor of Music has beer
conferred by Oxford university upon DR.
Walter B. Gilbert, organist of Trinity
chapel, West Twenty-ffth street, New York
The degree of Doctor Of Laws has been con
ferred upon the Protestant Episcopal bish
ops of Fredericton, New York and Mime
cOta