San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-27
BRIEF MENTION.

1t is reported that the car of Russia
lately presented 1,000,0 900 rubles to
one of his noblemen to relieve his pc
cuniary embarrassments.
Mrs. Boucicault, wife of the well
known playwright and actor, Dion
Boucicault, has obtained divorce
from him. Mrs. Boucicault was also
awarded costs.
Baron Albert Rothschild has ex-
pended $4,000 in the purchase and
setting up of the largest mirror tele-
scope that has been constructed at
Paris for the Vienna observatory.
1t is said that enough salt under
lies the city of Ithaca, n. Y, to sup
ply the world for century, and that
a syndicate has been formed to build
there the largest salt works in the
state of New York.
The king of Hollands heiress, the
Princess Wilhelmina, aged years,
has been betrothed to the l2-year-old
prince of SaXeWeimar and Holland.
The marriage will unite Saxe-Weimar
and Holland.
The Liverpool and Manchester ship
canal, which is to cost $30, 900, 900 and
be built in seven years, will be
dredged by German dredging ma
chimes, as the English con tractor finds
nothing in England to equal them.
The duke of Westminster is return
ed in "Bateman's Land Owners of
Great Britain" as her majesty's rich
est subject; and the young Viscount
Belgrave, if he lives to inherit his
patrimony, will, it is said, be the rich
est man in the world.
One of the finest collections of coins
in the South is owned by Capt. Bas-
com Myrick, of Americas, Ga. He
started it a number of years ago from
a bag of old Spanish and French coins
that he received over the counter
while cashier of bank in Forsyth.
The Stewart will case is still drag
ging in slow length along in the Sur
rogates court in New York. 1t has
been shown that Judge Hilton took
out of the Stewart firm in six years
S., 400, 236 in net profits, interest on
capital and in guarantee commits
siOns.
Twenty-six English sovereigns, $50
in bills, and other small amounts IN
silver and pennies were found on the
person of Ellen O'Hara, who died in
the Albany Almshouse on Monday.
She came to this country from Ireland
about two years ago.
There is now filed with a will in liti-
cation in Monroe county, Ga, a silver
dollar that was issued in IT'S, and has
been in possession of the same family
for more than 100 years. 1t is one of
the thirteen dollars that were paid to
a revolutionary soldier when dis
charged from the continental army.
Organ grinders are to be driven by
the police from the streets of Paris,
and only favored few are to be per-
mitted to play in alleys and courts,
even these being required to wear
badges showing that they have been
duly licensed. The result of this regu-
lation is expected to be general ex-
odus of disguised but "musican Ital-
ians, with London as their objective
point.
Gen. Sheridan has never stopped
growing since he has been sick. He
calls his peptonized milk Internal
stuff" and his chicken broth, "chick-
en- slOp.n Nothing suits him. Every
thing has to be changed, and that inn
He wants roast beef, claret
that he ought not to
have, and pitches into the doctors
right and left the instant he can hold
his head up from the pillow.
A great parrot show is to be held in
Turin this summer. Prizes are to be
given for the polly who can use the
most phrases and for the oldest par
rot. 1t is said that a polly who has
seen eighty years will be present. 1t
is related that Cuvier, the celebrated
had parrot in his vesti-
bule, who, upon seeing stranger,
would cry out, What do you want
with my master?n And when a re-
ply was given he would respond
Don't talk too much.N
John Dillon has gone to Dundalk
Jail for six months under conviction of
a violation of the coercion act, and $50
colleagues in parliament have pre-
sented him with an address of sympa-
thy in his "unmerited imprisonment"
Mr.. Dillon, while mentally full of fire
and strength, is physically weak-of
such mold and mien as so be often
spoken of as the ideal melancholy
Dane" The chances are more than
even that he will not survive the pc
Rod of his sentence.
On opening a package at the Dead
Letter Office, in Washington, last
week, it was found to contain the scalp
of a white woman stretched ..out on a
bent willow frame, and from the
marks on the package the conclusion