San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-23
THE OBSERVED OF OBSERVERS

| Mrs. Garnelu mas an income D
about $4,000 year.
George NJ. Pullman sailed Wedues
day for a summer European trip.
jaw Gould has settled at his cot
tage at Lyndhurst, for the summer.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistler, will
shortly go abroad for n heightened
stay on the Continent.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will
visit Venice for q few weeks, and
then settle In London for the sum-
mer.
Tennyson's income from his works
is stated at between S25, 900 and $50, 0OC
about five times that of either
Browning or Swinburne.
The statues of Benjamin Franklin
and Josiah Quincy, at the Boston
City hall, have just been cleaned for
the first time in ten years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
will remain in London until some
time in June. when they will again
visit Paris before returning home.
Gen. Franz Sigel will this week
retire from the New York pension
office. He says he has no plans for
the future, and may drift back to
journalism.
Secretary Window has been in pub
lie life since 1852. He was con-
gresham two years before Mr.. Blaine
made his appearance as a representa-
tive.
The marriage of Miss Fanny Daven-
port to her leading man, Melbourne
Mcdowell, will, it is now said, take
place the latter part of this month at
Harrisburg, Pa.
Sir John Millais first tempted for
tune as gold digger in Australia. He
put in three months at the diggings,
and then returned a sadder and a
wiser man to England.
Miss Susan La Flesche, n sister of
the well known Bright Eyes, has
taken her degree at the Woman's
Medical college, in Philadelphia, thus
becoming the first Indian graduate
from medical college.
NJ. Roustan, the French minister to
the United States, is a tnan of medi-
UNI height, with dark hair and eyes
and closely-trimmed mustache. He is
one of the most popular members of
the diplomatic corps at Washington.
Rev. DR.. r. II. Morrison, who died
the other day in Lincoln county, n.
c., was nlnety-one years old, and was
the oldest Presbyterian minister in
the state. One of his daughters was
the wife of "St0newalln Jackson.
The honor of having the most mag
private home in New York,
belongs, it is said, tC'' Henry G. Mar
quand, the Madison avenue million
aire. Almost two millions of dollars, it
is said, were spent by him for the
decorations alone.
Outside the Presidents mail 500 let
ters come to the White House every
day. 1t requires a large force Of men
to work till midnight to answer them.
Lige Halford replies to the most
ones by debating to Miss
Sanger, who type-writes what he
says.
A new work Oh "Half a Century of
Music in England" draws the inter-
esting contrast between the time
when Lord Chesterfield warned his
son against being a fiddler, even in
the amateur sense, and the present,
when prince of royal blood is the
most noted amateur in England.
A contract has been entered into
with Alexander Doyle, the sculptor,
for the long-talked-of monument to
Horace Greeley. The cost will be
$25, 900. The figure will be in sitting
posture, and the statue and pedestal
will be eighteen feet high. The ma
terial of the casting will be standard
bronze. 1t will be erected in City
Hall park, New York.
A new law in Madagascar gives a
husband the power to chastise his
wife with regulation whip only, and