San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-17
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Points Pertaining tn Prominent PEG
pie PertinentIy Put.


ligious care every pipe her husband
smokes and every oaken stick he
carries.
Mrs. Parnell is not dying. On the
contrary che Is recovering, although
she is said to be still Frustrated with
grief,
1t is said tnat South Carolinian
bearing the name of Henry c. Grady,
bears q striking resemblance to the
late Henry w. Grady, of Atlanta.
The Oldest living ex member OF the
cabinet Is James Campbell of Phila-
delphia, who was one OF PRESIDENT
Pierce's secretaries. He Is living
man of so.
DIR. Depew tells the latest OF his
interyiewers that he raises himself
from the business level to the plane
of after-dinner speaking by reading
Macaulay's essays.
Samuel H. Ingersoll, of Minnesota,
met his twin brother, John b at
Nutley. n. ID the other day. They
are rs wears ola, and had not seen
each other for thirty-three years.
The duke of Norfolk has taken his
deaf, dumb and blind l2-year old son
to the shrine at Lourdes, France,
hoping to secure a miraculous cure for
the unfortunate child.
Walt Whitman. James Russell
Lowell. Julia Ward Howe, Edwin T.
Whipple, w. w. Story, DR.. J. u.
Holland. Herman Melville and Tho
mas w. Parsons were all born in the
year 1919.
Nine. Nevada's little daughter,
Mignon, when asked by visitor how
she managed to pass the time, salo:
sometimes I play with my dolly,
but usually / mediate over mama's
career"
Jerry Simpson ls averaging 50 0 in
come per week, or about what ne
used to get per annum. Or this sum
he gets 500 as his congresslonal sala-
nv, S57 tor his harvest and f200 Tor his
campaign speeches.
North Waterford, Maine, boasts of
a smart woman, Mrs. benjamin Jack
son. who recently walked three miles
to do washing, carrying in her arms
a baby only II days old, and wheel
ing girl not quite years old In
carriage.
Arthur Balfour, the new leader OF
the British parliament, is thorough
tory, cool, reticent, self-possessed,
plucky, full of facts, ready in debate,
complete master of himself and the
situation. Besides, he can play golf
like fury and is q bachelor.
The ghost of Lester WallacK Is said
to peram bulate the dusky recesses of
the Star theatre, New York. The
actors in that temple of Thespls, how
ever. view with unconcern the re-
- lon q
al ghost main tsins his weekly walk.
Col. Pug Jones and Col. Dave Nichol-
son are the two Dromios of st. Louis.
They each weigh about two hundred
pounds, and attend the same theater,
eat at the same restaurant, bet on the
same horses, get left on the same
baseball game, and otherwise daily
pool their separate fortunes.
The great Napoleon smoked tobacco
but once, and then at the instance OF
the Persian am bassador, who present
ed him with magnificent oriental
pipe. The experiment upset the en-
porer's stomach, and he never repeat
ed 1t, though later in life he became
devotee of the tnuft-box.
A. Major, the now wealthy proprie-
tor Of well-known concentrating
industry, obtained the recipe for it in
trade a few years ago, when both
he and the other man were almost
penniless. He had just pawned his
valise to buy a dinner, and gave away
the pawn ticket for the formula, out
of which be Don made a fortune.
The duke and duchess of Leinster
are visiting Turkey aud have been
g NY nil q
quite gallant In his invitation to his
lady visitor to make herself quite at
home in rambling around his palatisl
establishment, drew the line at the
duke, and buried him off to the stables
and billiard room.
Sarah AIthsa Hill-Terry walked
recently into the Office of the United
States marshal in San Francisco,
showed au order from Judge Morrow.
and demanded the return of two self
cooking revolvers. They had been
used in exhibits, but the Judges or
der indicated that the famous litIga-
ton in which she was interested had
been closed.
Gladstone and Tennyson are alike
in age 50, and have been friends and
literary co.workers for more than half
a century. Gladstone Is a woodman
and Tennyson farmer, but notwith-
standing their similarity Of taste, the
poet has never yet offered to supply
the statesman with milk and butter
less than market prices.
There is a good deal of caddish pet
tiness in the action of Sir William
GordonCumming in protesting against
the town of EIgin rendering recep.
ton to the duchess of Fife, daughter
of the prince of Wales; and it is gen.
orally felt that when a man will in
suit q lady In order to spite her father