San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-21
PICKED PERSONALS.

The prince of Wales owns the finest
railway coach in Europe.
The monument to Lincoln at
Springfield, ILL.,, is tumbling to pieces.
J. r. owbridge, the novelist and
poet, is spending the winter at
Naples.
Mrs. John Wanamaker, who is now
in Paris, takes great interest in re-
ligious work.
William d. HOwells is living quiet
ly in New York city and is at work Oh
New York novel.
1t is said that Queen Victoria has
sent for an eminent Indian scholar to
teach her Hindustani.
Henri Tamberlik, the celebrated
Italian singer, is dead in Paris. He
was born in Rome in 1920.
Hon. Austin Blair, Michigan's "war
governor" is seriously sick at his
home in Jackson, Mich.
The Hon. w. HI. Barnum has so far
recovered his health as to be able to
visit his sou at Mamaroneck.
Chauncey M. Depew will deliver
the commencement grafton before the
students of the Yale law school.
General George A. Sheridan, the
political orator, is said to be in line
for consul-generalship at Montreal.
George Meredith has never been
rich man, and once was so poor that
he lived for year on oatmeal.
The duke of Cambridge is said
IN, ho hn
family who composes his own public
speeches.
Thirteen lectures delivered by DIR.
Howard Crosby during the year 1888,
in New York, have been collected and
published.
M. Renan has contempt for popular
government. "To unclaimed, univer-
sal suffrage" he says, 81 prefer the
most dissolute court and the most
mediocre monarch"
Leslie Crotty, the baritone of Carl
Rosa's opera company, was formerly
a clerk in the bank of Ireland. He was
also famous amateur runner, hold
ing the 100 yards championship in
Ireland.
Thomas J. Crowley, who died this
week in New Haven, was genuine
though humble hero. He saved
twenty-five persons from drowning,
and his death was the result of ex-
posture in that service.
Joseph Nimmo, Jr., late chief of the
national bureau of statistics, will ad-
dress the Manufacturer club, of
Philadelphia, Monday evening next.
on THE Limitations of Governmental
lofi % j. =
Country"
Adam Forepaugh has filed with
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ober-
ly, contracts, accompanied by a bond,
with fifty Sioux Indians of the Pine
Ridge agency, whom the Snowman in-
tends to present in his circus the COM
ing season.
Rev. 5. f. Smith, now over eighty
years old, has adopted the plan of
writing autograph copies of his cele-
brated national hymn, "America, " for
the benefit of the Boston Children's
Friend society, in which he takes a
special in terest.
Walt Whitman is not without
keen sense of the humorous. An am
bilious young poet called on him the
other day to Show him MS. tragedy,
entitled Columbus" "Mr. Whit
man." said he, II should like to read
you my drama, and get your opinion
Off its merits" mo, [ thank you,"
said Walt. owe been paralyzed
once"
The inventor, Ericsson, was practi-
cally secluded from the world during
several years before his recent death.
One writer Mcclellan desired to be-
come personally acquainted with the
great engineer, and employed the SER
vice of John Newton, one of Ericsson's
few friends, to obtain an audience
with him. The captain replied that,
while he felt tiattered by the request,
he was too old to make any new &C
quaintances he must beg to be ex-
cused.n