San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-19
THESE ALL LIVE,

yard.
Jay Gould has an orchid in his con-
servatory at Irvington that is valued
at So 900.
A western paper speaks of "the
Boston of John l.. Sullivan and Oil
yer Wendell Holmes.
The Marsh family of America will
hold its sixth annual reunion at New
ark, n. j., October 2 and 8.
Martin Farquhar Upper was edu-
Gated for the church, but stammered
too badly to follow that profession.
Queen Victoria, London gossiper
hears, weighs now 1913 pounds: The
royal colonel is quite heavy dragon.
The Washington gossips say Sena-
tor Sabin is to marry Miss Ida Muir
ply, long time close friend of his
divorced wife.
| Vive President Morton's Washing
ton home will probably be the most
elegantly appointed house in Wash
ington.
| The highest salaries paid clergymen
in Cleveland are by Presbyterian
churches. Rev. DR.. G. S. POmeroy
receives $4,000 year.
Mr.. Edwards, United States con-
sui at Berlin, is queer fellow. He
is actually charged by the Germans
with being too closely devoted to his
duties.
Rev. Florence Kalloch, of Chicago,
is one of the most eloquent preachers
in the West. She is tall, slender
woman. with a fine head, and has
great personal magnetism.
Mrs. Ole Bull has had a fine music
room constructed in her house in Bos-
ton. The room is lined with teak and
its acoustic properties are said to be
something extraordinary.
Max Strakosch, who brought some
of the most brilliant singers to this
country that ever left the other side
of the Atlantic, is in the Home for
Curables at Fordham, n. Y, para
lytic.
Col. James Reid, who served as
lieutenant in the Seventh-eight High
landers at Waterloo, but has lived in
Canada for the past seventy years,
has gone to Scotland to visit the
scenes of his boyhood. He is ninety
six years old.
A st. Ignace girl sat on freshly
painted barrel sign the other day, and
then went up street bearing marks,
something like these across the hustle
of her white summer dress: "Krop
ssemn Those who read the mysterious
! words backward tumbled to the sit
uatiOn.
A million Mannlicher rifles have
been ordered by the German govern
ment from the Steyr factories, which
have been working exclusively for
the Austro-Hungarian government
for nearly year past. On October
1st the whole army and the landwehr
will be armed with them.
A large public bath will soon be
erected in Philadelphia, from money
left by Benjamin Franklin and John
Scott. Franklin left in his will,
dated April %, 1890, $4,000 to be used
by Philadelphia in such way that
after the lapse OF century the prin-
cipal and interest should amount to
sum large enough to make valuable
public improvements.
A jury in Indiana bothered their
brains for whole night trying to de-
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bacco ?n and then gave up the task in
disgust. On the decision rested a
suit for damages for the loss of a COW,
the prosecutor claiming that the ami
NAL died as result of eating bag Of
! tobacco, which the defendant left
carelessly lying around.
Probably the longest "bee" line
railway in the world is that from Bue-
nos Ayres to the foot of the Andes.
1t covers $40 kilometres, or about 275
miles, and is as straight as an arrow.
The highest grade is about three feet
to the mile. 1t crosses no ravine and
no stream, and therefore no bridge.
DR.. Benson, archbishop of Canter-
| bury, is shocked at the idea of bride
groom taking part in wedding cere-
mOny in an evening dress. He thinks
such costume desecrates the sanct-
uary, and to prevent such desecration
he has issued an edict against the is
sue of special licenses for later hour
than ) o'clock in the evening.
Referring to his name as "Sunset"
the late Congressman Cox said /:
'"The name stuck, and while my
friends know that my name is Sam
uel Sullivan, the American people as
a general thing is of the opinion that
S. s. stands for Sun Set / have
been introduced to more people as
Sun Set Cox than as Mr.. Cox, and 1
suppose that fully one-half of my
mail comes addressed to me in that
way.
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