San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-10
SENSE AND SENTIMENTS

SENSE AND SENTIMENTS.
Be good sweet maid, and let who will be cev-
Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
And so make life, death and the vast forever
Charles Kingsley
September strews the woodland
With many brilliant color:
The world is brighter than before
Why should our hearts be duler?
Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather,
All, me! this glory and this grief
Agree not well together.
Thomas W. Parsons.
He who loses half an hour every
morning runs after it during all the
day without being able to overtake it.
-Selwyn.
Incivility Is not vice of the soul,
but the effect of several vices-of van
ity, ignorance of duty, laZiness, stu
pidity, distraction, contempt of others
and Jealousy-[De la Bruyere.
Lady Colin Campbell, who began
journalistic work in 1858, is now one
of the Saturday Reviews regular book
reviewers.
Rufus Hatch says that nobody asks
him for his opinion now that he is
poor. Time was when he could not
give opinions fast enough.
Wagner's only son, Siegfried, now
grown, is studying to be an engineer.
He looks like his father, but shows
no marked musical talent.
NJ. de Freycinet has issued a COM
mission to inquire into the feasible
ness of employing swallows to carry
war messages in lieu of carrier pig
cons.
The wedding of Miss Jennie Cham
berlain, the American beauty, to
Capt. Naylor-Leyland, of the English
army, will take place early next
month.
The king of Spain took his first sea
bath at San Sebastian two weeks ago.
His eldest sister, the princess of the
Asturias, aged nine, carried him in.
III. H. Warner, of Rochester, the
proprietor of the famous proprietary
medicine establishment has sold his
works to British syndicate for S. ,O0O,-
900.
Ninian w. Edwards, who married
Elizabeth p. Todd, sister of A braham
Lincoln's wife, is dying at his home in
Springfield, Ill. He is eighty years
old.
The richest man in the House of
Commons is said to be Mr.. McEwan,
home rule member for one of the
divisions of Edinburgh, worth 500, 600
per annum.
John L. Blair, the Jersey railroad
king, has fortune estimated all the
way from $40, 900, 600 to S60,00,0O0. He
was at one time president of twenty
railroads.
Miss Helen Gould, daughter of Jay
Gould, always believed she had a
mission to teach, and even now in
structs four music pupils members of
her church) at her home.
Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, has
been selected by Cardinal Gibbons to
preach the sermon at the dedication
of the new Roman Catholic university
at Washington, November 10.
Mrs. Julia D. Grant, widow of the
general, who has been spending the
summer in Vienna with her son, the
United States minister, expects to re-
turn to this country and pass the win
ter in Washington.
Gen. Stewart Van Vliet is the old
est general on the retired list in the
army. He is seventy-fonr years old,
and has been in the service fifty-two
years. He served in the Florida and
Mexican wars and during the late re-
bellion.
]. T. Trowbridge, whose stories for
boys have made him famous, was
born in 1927 in Western New York.
He taught himself Latin, French and
German. He writes at the present
time almost wholly for the Youths
Companion and makes a handsome
income. He is a tall, fresh-looking
man, with very pleasant face. He
has never cared for society and lives
in retirement in Boston.
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