San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-17
PERSONAL AND IMPERSoNAL

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham was
called Eolus Pitt, from a jest made
about him by Lord Chesterfield.
Gabriel Hanotaux, the new French
minister of foreign affairs, is but little
over forty. He has made a speciality
of the relations of the French in Africa
and to the Congo state, and his ideal of
French craftsmanship is said to be en-
bodied in Cardinal Richelieu.
Elijah Bryan, of Nevada, Mo-, has
still in his possession an old flintlOck
rife with which he helped to defend
the homes of settlers in Charles
county, Missouri. against the raids of
Black Hawks warriors. Mr.. Bryan,
who has never been out of the state, is
related to Daniel Boone. He is in his
95th year.
Senator Caffery, of Louisiana,
thinks Misunderstanding is a senseless
thing, and refuses to practice it. When
a stranger is introduced to Caffery, he,
of course, stretches out his hand in
greeting, but the Louisiana senator
pays no attention to it, and the man
has to draw it back For years he has
observed this custom. ..
Frau Cosima Wagner, of Bayreuth,
widow of the composer, is causing
much comment by her growing eccen-
tricities. She recently composed five
poems in honor of her son Siegfried' S
five dogs. On Siegfried's birthday
she gave reception, and after the
guests had assembled she called in the
dogs and had her five poems recited
and sung for their benefit.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,
possesses a collection of jewels prob
ably surpassed alone by that of the
| empress of Russia. Besides the family
gems. which are passed on from one en-
| press to the next, the empress posses
ses collection o, jewels which have
been presented to her by the emperor
and foreign princes, valued at four
million or five million marks.
There died recently in Madrid Don
f. Madrazo. one of the most gifted art
lists in Spain. He had reached the
biblical limit in age. Among his most
| famous pictures are Godfrey OF
Bouillon Proclaimed King of Jeru-
SALEM" painted in 1899; Marie Chris
tine as a Nun at the Bed of Ferdinand
VII" "WOmen at the Sepulcher of
Christ and many portraits of Spanish
aristocrats. There is great regret in
Spain at his death.
"A well-knOwn divine of Boston
was also president of railroad. He
had occasion to go out into the railroad
yard one day, and witnessed the I'M
loading of carload of rails. The men
were pitching them over in careless
manner, and he demonstrated with the
workmen. One of the men gently told
him to go to hades. "Oh, shame!'
said the ex-clergyman; that's the last
place you ought to send me to-" ''FaiX,
l think you are right" replied the
workman; there's no doubt but it
will be the last place you'll go tor
II consider it delightful thing tc
do, and at the same time as very del
icate way of putting it," said New
| York man of moderate means, ''for
my laundryman to put in my bundle OF
| clean clothes, without comment, the
| circular of a shirt-repairing establish
ment; for most of my shirts certainly
do need repairs, some of them to such
an extent, indeed, that practically they
need rebuilding. learn from this cir
cular that new neckbands are put in
for so much, new collars for so much,
| and new bOSOms. wristbands, and cuffs
for so much. observe only two omis.
sions in this list, sleeves and bodies
and it is to a place where these are
supplied also that some of my shirts
would need to be sent. / can scarcely
imagine, however, that there is such a
place, for l suppose the line must be
| drawn somewhere"