San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-08
GOT THEM ON THE LIST.

Cyrus w. Field wears No. boot,
for which he pays $50 pair.
Levi P. Morton wears button gait
ers, the best quality. No. 6 is his
size.
Gen. Lawton has determined to re-
sign his position as minister to Aus
tria March 9th.
Mrs. Burnett, again a Washington
resident, wears her bronZe-red hair
cut almost as short as brush.
Hon. William H. Barnum is better,
and his friends now confidently look
for his entire restoration to health
and strength.
Francis Murphy, the temperance re-
vivalist, contradicts the report that he
is to take the stump for prohi in
Pennsylvania.
Miss Cleveland is now in her winter
home at Naples, Fla, where she has a
five acre orange grove and cozy six
room house.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes has pre-
scented to the Boston Medical associa-
ton his medical library, containing
96S rare and valuable volumes.
Jay Gould's yacht, the Atlanta, is
to 60 into commission again, and
there is talk of another long cruise in
foreign waters by Mr.. Gould and
members of his family.
B.P. Hutchinson, the millionaire
grain speculator of Chicago, may fire.
quently be seen in a cheap restaurant
making a meal of sandwich and a
cup of coffee, at a total cost of ten
cents.
Frederick Billings, of Woodstock,
VT, who gave the State university at
Burlington new library building
costing S150,000, some time ago, will
add a wing to the southern side dur
ing the coming season.
Complaint is made that King AL
fonso of Spain, has "nobody to play
with" OF course his rank forbids
him from playing with any baby be-
low king, and as he is the only baby
king in Europe, he has to go it alone.
The late Charles A. B. Shepard, the
Boston publisher, and the late d. r..
Locke Petroleum V. Nasby) were on
terms of exceedingly close intimacy
many years, each was accustomed to
write a letter to the other every day.
Sir Robert Morier is to be sent to
Washington as British minister, &C
cording to recent reports from Lon
don. In st. Petersburg he receives
SAC, 900 per year and ranks as ambas-
sador; in Washington he will have
$50, 900 and rank as minister plenipC-
tertiary.
Louis Kossuth, the aged Hungarian
patriot, sent letter to be read at a
banquet in Vienna the other day, and
the guests stood while it's ringing
sentences were being read. He de-
clared that Hungary must have ma
tional army, with Hungarian colors,
Hungarian commanders and Hunga-
rian feeling, and that the man was no
Hungarian and ought to be abhOrred
who would surrender those rights.
Daniel Webster once found good
way of getting rid of a borrower.
Webster" said Rufus ChOate one
day, II want to borrow $500 and
wish you'd lend it to me-" 81 haven't
the money today, Mr.. Choate," said
Mr.. Webster, "but you give me your
note and can get it cashed for YOU
Gratified beyond measure ChOate sat
down to write his note. "By the way,
Choate," said Webster in an off-hand
way, "you might as well make that
note for 81 900 and 1 can use $500 my
self" "Certainly," said Choate, cheer
fully, and he signed a note for an even
| 81 900. Then the immortal Daniel
sauntered down to a bankers office.
"Ah! anything can do for you today,
Mr.. Webster?" Can you discount a
note for 81 900 for me?" "With pleas
ure." The great statesman pOcketed
81 900 in bills, gave $500 to ChOate,
who was ELUSIVE in his thanks, and
kept the other $500 himself.
A piano being built at q Hamburg