San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The manuscripts of the fifth and
twelfth centuries are written with
very good black ink which has not
shown the least signs of fading or OBJ
Iteration.
Lii Chang-fang, the adopted SON of
viceroy Ii Hung Chang, since his re-
turn from the peace conference in
japan last April, has been occupying
his leasure hours in experimenting
the building of q handsome house in
foreign style inside the capacious gar
dens of his father at Wuhu.
Gustav Freitag ordered in his will
that all letters written to him should
be restored to the writers or their
heirs, and that nothing of his own
should be published that he had not
expressly intended should be printed.
"What is not finished or is failure"
he wrote, ''does not belong to the
market, and / do not wish to annoy
readers by my youthful efforts"
The German Emperor William has
sent portrait of himself to the emf
nent painter Andreas Achenbach, who
has just celebrated his eightieth birth
day at Dusseldorf. Herr Achenbach
has received large number of con-
gratulatory letters and kilograms from
various academies of art and from his
admirers.
The sultan of Turkey spends fivo
thousand dollars daily for his table.
He has no dining-room and the serv-
ants serve his meals wherever they can
find him. The dishes are covered and
sealed with the imperial seal, which is
put on in the kitchen by the grand
vizier, the idea being that the sultan
may be certain that his food has not
been poisoned or tempered with.
Mr.. Eivind Alstrup, who accom-.
panied Lieut.. Peary in his first great
Journey over the ice-gap of Greenland
to Independence bay, is writing book
on the experiences of himself and gall
liant leader. As a matter of honor, Mr..
Alstrup will not have the work trans
lated and published in English until
after Mr.. Peary has issued his book.
But three members of the supreme
court were not appointed by either
Mr.. Harrison or Mr.. Cleveland. These
are Justice Field, appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln in 1868; Justice Harlan.
of Kentucky, appointed by president
Hayes in 1877, and Justice Gray, OF
Massachusetts,, appointed by President
Arthur in 1881 to the vacancy which
the late Roscoe Conkling emphatically
declined to fill.
The Codex Upsal differs from every
other known manuscript in the fact
that it was written with silver ink on
violet parchment, the initials being of
gold. The secret of the manufacture
of this silver ink is not definitely
known, though it is suspected that
some solution of the metal was en-
ployed in the writing and then subse-
quently treated with chemicals to give
the metallic luster and effect.
Mrs. Newcomb MCGEE, of Washing
ton city, daughter of, Prof. Newcomb,
the famous astronomer, has the dis
tinction of being the second woman
elected fellow of the American Assoc
citation for the Advancement of Science.
She is also member of the Anthro-
biological society. She was graduated
in medicine from the Columbian uni
versity in Washington, and is now at
work in the Johns Hopkins hospital in
Baltimore. Mrs. MCGEE has visited
with her father all the great observa-
tories of Europe, and now accompanies
her husband on her geological expedi-
tions