San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-25

EU2dE TdNCoV " III oDOiNi viz
mer chiefly in the Catskills.
Senator Evarts has purchased a
large tract of land at East Hampton,
l.. 1.
Ex-King Milan is expected shortly
in Paris, where he intends to reside.
Miss Lucy Lacrom is passing the
summer at Beverly, Mass. She will
visit Maine in August.
Philip James Bailey has brought
out the 50th anniversary edition Of
his famous poem. ''Festus."
Rev. G. E. Stoves Life" of his
mother, Harriet Beecher Stowe, is
passing through the press.
T. Adolphus Trollope has finished
another serious of "reminiscences"
which he will publish presently.
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost thinks that
there should be a revolution in this
country once in every ten years.
A volume on George Eliot for the
"Great Writers Series" has been
undertaken 10y Oscar Browning.
Secretary Blaine has been invited
TO deliver an Emancipation Day adj
dress at Knoxville on September %.
Mrs. Logan, the widow of Gen.
Logan, and Miss Pullman, are eXpec-
ted to arrive in New York this week
Oh the Trave.
J. Il. Ward, the sculptor, is about
to build handsome villa upon one
of the clitis overlooking the sound
at Mattituck, l.. l.
Lawrence Barrett writes that the
unsightly glandular swelling on his
neck has already been greatly reduced
by the German walters.
Jefferson NJ. Levy, the owner of
Monticello the famous home of
Thomas Jefferson, has sailed for an
extended tour of Europe.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is said to be
the purchaser, at the Secretan sale,
of a Coypel for 100000 francs and a
portrait by Halls for 10, 800 francs.
Mr.. Surgeons new book, entitled
"The Salt Cellars,n being proverbs
and quaint sayings, together with
homely notes thereon, will soon be
published.
Augusta Victoria, mother of the
emperor of Germany, has entered the
Catholic church, having been admitted
but very quietly it seems, several
days ago.
Almost the only commoner neither
in official or military life at the dinner
given to the shah by the earl of Rose
berry was William Henry Huribert,
the American.
Christine Nilsson may never sing
in public again. During a recent
illness in Paris she was troubled with
deafness and loss of memory, from
which she has not yet recovered.
The Lloyd Osbourne who appears
as a collaborateur with Roberts Ste
venson in the latters last story, "The
Wrong Box" is Mr.. Stevenson's
stepson. He is just twenty-one.
Capt. Charles King, who is becom-
ing one of the most indetatigable
novel writers of he'period, has just
finished a story entitled '"The Love
Knot, or from the Point to the Plains"
Gen. Rutler sailed in the America
Monday for an extended cruise along
the New England shore, touching at
Portland, Bar Harbor, Mr.. Desert,
Halifax, n. S. and the Bermudas.
Arrangements ar now complete for
the reception of Mr.. and Mrs. Glad
stone in the National Liberty club,
on the evening of the Goth inst, in
celebration of the golden wedding of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone. The men,
bers of Mr.. Gladstone's last admins
tration and representatives of Liberia
lism from all parts of the country will
be present.
Mr.. Ruskin was once asked if it
would not be well for the Welsh
language to die out and he replaced
by the English. "God forbidr' he
replied. 1.-THE Welsh lang uage is
the language of music. There is no
genius about the English language.
The Scotch have got all the poetry,
and the Irish all the wit; and how
the devil we got Shakspere, do not
know
MISSIONER, when in Paris, works
before large baywindow, ION a tiny
easel In keeping with himself and his
microscopic paintings" He has only
a few pupils, his son Charles. Detaille
and one or two others. Meissonier
claims that he has no method, and
consequently none to teach. Look
at nature and copy 1t, as l do" is
what he is quoted as saying to young
artists who ask his advice.
Il mend and make and will take