San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
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Henry irving ID SAID 10 De q clever
draughtsman.
Lady Randolph Churchill is still al
Melton. .She is confined to her bed.
Gen. Robt. +. Lees birthday, Jan
10, Is now legal holiday in Virginia
Judge Turpie. the Indiana senator
is small man in physique, and pos.
sesses soft, squeaky voice.
There are now 200 regularly or.
dained women preachers in the
United States, where forty years age
there was only one.
The report that Mrs. Harrison is
complaining about Mckinley prices
is probably an invention of the en-
envy. She is more of diplomat than
that.
Mrs. Stanley is receiving great
many letters from people who have
taken seriously the story that she Is
writing book called How Found
Stanley"
Gen. Booth is a tall, stoop-shoul-
dered man, with prominent Roman
nose and patriarchal white beard.
He is sixty.one, and the father OF a
large family.
Gen. Trei, who has just been elected
Switzerland, was formerly private
in an Illinois regiment, and spent
many months in Libby prison.
Russell Sage, the financial magnate,
is tall-built, gaunt, keen-eyed, hay
seed-looking man, of nervous manner,
with q long, clean-shaven face,
fringed with a scraggy, iron-gray chin
beard
John G.. Whittier is still fond of
pets. He has three handsome dogs.
two cats and three fine horses. When
the poet goes abroad in pleasant
weather q young st. Bernard dog is
constant companion.
Coffee Merchant Arbuckle declares
he will pay the $4,000 damages a.
warded to the fair plaintiff in the
baby Bunting" case. He has made
up his mind since all the courts have
decided against him.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has express
ed a great liking for Seattle, Wn., and
has purchased some property there,
near Turwater Falls, which is said to
be one of the most picturesque parts
of the State.
Mime. PATHS new theatre at Craig
y-Nos has dropped curtain decor
ated with an immense portrait Of
Patti as Semiramide, driving a chariot
and q pair of horses, the picture
covering the entire curtain.
Mrs. Chancey M. Depew has given
it out in concealed state that her
I husband must not attend so many
public dinners. Henceforth he will
remain at home the greater part of
the time and let Mrs. Depew do the
talking.
The young Duke of Orleans propos-
es to soldier In Russia for q year, and
has applied for attachment to one of
the Infantry regiments. He will
probably be sent to the Caucasus,
where there is possibility of fight
ing with the Turks.
Mrs. Margaret Sangster, the editor
of Harper's Bazaar, Is tall, we'll
formed woman with pink cheeks and
snow-white hair. She is hard work.
er, but there is no trace in her
pleasant countenance of the worry
that sometimes comes from literary
work.
Charles Louis de Sauces de Frey
cinet, the new-chosen "Immortal,n
was mining and railroad engineer
by profession until the revolution of
1915, since which time he has been
almost continuously in public life.
He has just entered upon the sixty
third year of his age.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton's doll took the
prize at the New York show as the
dressed in the prettiest evening COS
tune and sold for $50. Mrs. Har-
rison's doll sold at auction for 500,
while Sadie Martinez invested Sll5 in
the mimic lady by Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land.
The condition of p. T. Barnum is
much improved, and his friends are
beginning to be more hopeful. He
rests great deal easier and takes
considerable food. DIR. Loomis, of
New York, who is attending him,
will allow no one but the immediate
members of his family TO see him at
present.
~ frederick Wilhelm, the Crown
y sw'e of Germany, is a handsome
'ruptlosf seven, who is every inch q
.oze oNzollern. He wants his own
<esyHs much as any boy in the king
Apvkt Ole does not like music. He
wSdld' much rather play horse or
soldier, but 1t is his fathers orders
that he must learn to play the violin,
and he dare not disobey.
They take prophets pretty seriously
in Bombay. One of them recently
predicted that the city would be
swept by . tidal wave on Oct. /, and
the authorities promptly out him in