San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-12
MRS. GRUNDY'S PETS.

Mr.. Gladstone declares himself to
weigh 16S pounds.
Hon. w. F. Wharton, Assistant
Secretary Of State, is visiting Lenox,
Mass.
Julia Marlowe is angry because her
photographs are used to advertise
soap.
Gen. Boulanger is so superstitious
that he willnot ges out of bed at the
left side.
President Carnot's habit Of talking
in loud voice is due to his wife's
deafness.
Joseph Pulitzer declines to be
member of the New York Worlds
Fair committee.
Father Hauselph Saragian, the Ar
menian patriach at Con- tantinople, is
now in Boston.
court astrolOger beheaded for making
false prediction.
Mrs. Harriet Ketchum has been
awarded the first prize $500 for a de-
sign for the Iowa soldiers monument.
Danl. Dougherty, the silver tongued
orator, who has been basking at New
port, has returned to his city, Phila-
delphia.
Father Damien known as the Ieper
martyr, it is now stated, attributed
his leprOsy to the incubation by flies
of an abrasion on his scalp.
James X. Polk was the only speak
er of the National House of Represen-
tatives who ever became president.
Thirty men have filled the speakers
chair since 1889.
Gen. Malone, of Virginia, is the
son of tavernkeeper. He walked
barefooted to Richmond to secure the
governors's aid to enter the Virginia
military institute.
Henry E. DiXey has begun rehear-
sails of The Seven Ages at the Stan
dard theater, New York. The pieces
will be put on the stage the second
week in October.
DIR. J. H. Hazen, who died at Mar
shall, Ill, few days ago, was proba-
bly, the last of the men who took part
in Perry's famous victory on Lake
Erie in 1913. DR.. HaZen was ninety
one years old.
Mrs. Charles CrOCker's latest gift to
San FrancisCo-a home for girls out of
emplOyment-was opened a few DAYS
ago. The building and site cost S32
900, of which Mrs. Crocker gave S15,-
900.
Col. Paul Frederick de Quincy has
recently been made sergeant-at-arms
of the New Zealand Parliament. He
is the sole survivor of the five sons of
the famous English essayist and Opt
um eater.
Two violins, formerly the property
of Alard, have recently been sold. a
Stradivarious for $4,000 and a Stainer
for e260. A third violin by Guaner-
Jus, the one Alard generally PLAYED
on, was left by will to the Paris con-
servatOire.
Hon. George B. Loring the United
States minister to Portugal, has been
for twenty-five years the president of
the New England Agricultural sOci-
ETY.. To take the place of his usual
opening address at the fair at WOr-
cester he sent this year an entertain
ing letter from Lisbon on the state of
Portuguese agriculture.
Miss Joanna Baker, who has been
appointed to the chair of Creek at
Simpson college, Iowa, succeeds to
the position once held by her father.
At four years of age Miss Baker be-
gan the study of Greek and Latin. at
eight she could read Nenophon, and
at fourteen she compiled a lexicon of
the Edipus Tyrannus. At sixteen
she was tutor of Greek in the college
which has now made her profess or.
There is a curious little museum in
Berlin in which no relics are kept ex-
cept royal garters, 1t is run in con-
junction with the HohenzOllern Mu-
scum, and was founded by William
i. Carriers from the legs Of all the
princesses who have been married
since 1917 are to be found in this uni
one collection