San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-17
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
Senator Edmunds has dog on whicl
he dotes.

Senator Edmunds has dog on which
he dotes.
Nine. Christine Nilsson lie troubled
with continued rheumatism.
Judge Norton, OF Missouri, positively
refuses to become candidate for gov
ernor.
Cornelius Is strenuously opposed to
the sale OF liquor anywhere near rail-
way station.
President McCosh, OF Princeton col
lege, will be given q reception by the
Penn club, Of Philadelphia, this even
ing.
At Evansville, Ind last week, work
men engaged In tearing down an Old
house found a tin box containing 5000
In gold.
The duke OF Argyle 10 In very feeble
health. His death will make Princess
Louise, of Lorne, an English peeress as
duchess Of Argyle.
The king OF Portugal will make tour
OF northern Europe for his health, II IL
remains a healthy country, notwith-
standing the war rumors.
Ex-senator David Meriwether, OF
Kentucky, the appointed successor OF
Henry Clay, has been visiting Washing
ton this winter. He is eighty years
old.
The editor Of a temperance paper who
wrote: "Getting drunk is folly" was
horrihed to read In his sheet next day
that Getting drunk is jolly"
Cheese straws. 10 long sticks like mac
aroni, are growing popular AS a dinner
table feature. They are served with
narrow strips Of ribbon tied at one end.
A protective committee at Buffalo has
collected nearly $1,000 due TO poor
women. 1t was chiefly In small sumo.
There seems to be an increase OF med
ical advisers who now preach only two
meals day, and mo nibbling" between
meals.
Ii is the observation OF Mrs. Grupdy
that Solomon 10 all his glory never WAS
as pulled up, proud or conceited as some
Of the youths who are employed to lead
the cotillion.
Frank Pratber, Of Butler county, Neb,
announces that his wife Ida has left
.'his bed and board" and that this is
the third man she has tried to live with
and the second time she has left me-"
The formal retirement OF DIR. McCosh
from the presidency OF Princeton COL
lege will take place at the annual meet
ing Of the board OF trustees Thursday.
Governor Hill will give reception TO
his personal friends at the Executive
Mansion in Albany this evening. rs
annual legislative reception will be next
week.
MecajohD Hancock, who celebrated
his Tooth birthday at NJ onon, Ind, last
MI laff IN ha Of Lob
Hancock Of the Declaration Of lndepen-
dence fame.
The heir to the Russian throne, the
CZarevitch, is again suffering from the
wasting disease which afflicted him q
few years ago. His early death Is be-
lieved TO be a certainty.
Mrs. John Jacob AstOr left her large
collection Of laoes, valued ut $50,0O0, TO
the Metropolitan Art museum, of New
York, and they will be placed on exhl-
bition there soon.
People don't really kiss the pope's toe.
The pope's foot Is enoased In a silk
stocking. which 10 again encased In a
dainty slipper embroidered with n cross,
which the pilgrim touches with his lips.
W. X. Vanderbilt is reported to have
purchased the magnificent mansion Of
Mrs. BischOtfs, on the Avenue des
Champs Elysee. Paris, for his new rela-
tive by marriage, De Fontenilliat.
Among the men who drew govern
ment salaries as policemen and mechan-
les on the Indian agencies are George
Washington, Grover Cleveland, Henry
Clay, Edward Everett, U. s. Grant,
Matthew Arnold, and Benjamin +. But
Ter.