San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-14
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Boswell was too great Ounce to
know how good his Life of johnson"
really was. So far as known, he wrote
it simply to crafty his itch for writ
ing, and had no idea of its excellence.
Emperor William has sketched the
general plan of a history of the war of
1870. and has commissioned Prof Lind
ner, of the university of Halle, to write
it. 1t is to be ready in time for the
celebration in September, and will be
issued in an edition of 100000 copies.
Bishop Wesley j. Gaines of
Georgia, the new star in the theolog-
ital armament, is a colored man of vast
proportions. He is said to have won
derful fund of oratory, originality, and
wit, a man who believes in putting, as
he expresses it, lots of ginger into his
sermons and who realizes his senti-
ments.
President Faure of France, when
on his travels, is accompanied by two
Wallets, one of whom has the single
duty of looking after the presidents
wardrobe. This, however, is no light
task, as the number of suits and cos.
tunes which the president is obliged
to carry about is considerable.
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgin'
son says of Oliver Wendell Holmes: "It
was uncertain to him, and always re-
manned uncertain, whether his main
claim to fame was to rest upon his pro
fession or upon literature. Outsiders
generally made up their minds that he
always chung to the laurels that came
from both, but in his early years he
undoubtedly preferred his profession.
If Henry A. Dupont goes to the
United States senate from Delaware
he will add one more to the number OF
millionaires in that body, and will be
the first really rich man to sit for Del
aware. He is not an idle or a luxuri
Gus man, as it has been the way of the
Duponts for century to learn the
at it, at first with their hands and
later in the executive department OF
the Office.
William S. Steel, chief coiner OF
the United States mint, whose resigna'
ton, rendered more than a year ago
has recently accepted by President
Cleveland, had been in continuous
service for thirty-four years. He en-.
tered the institution in 1861 as assist.
ant weigher in the deposit weigh
room. He was made chief coiner in
1885. and since that time the entire
coinage output of the government has
been under his supervision.
MIR. Gladstone has been telling
about his present manner of life. He
gets up at o'elok in the morning, hav.
ing had about seven hours of sound
sleep; takes his bath, shaves, goes into
the garden, or lin rainy weather. does
a little reading, and at seven sits down
to breakfast. Then he goes to church
every day., and on his return settles
down to work on his correspondence,
After luncheon he takes walk or
drive, if the weather permits He sits
down to dinner at eight, and half-past
ten finds him in his bedroom.
Digging up coffin in order to OBJ
tain memoirs OF the first Napoleon
hardly seems necessary nowadays.
That was done though, it is said, for
those of Planat de la Faye, his orderly
officer, which were recently published.
His widow had only three copies of the
memoirs printed, and deposited one in
her husband'r coffin, after having it ex-
humed with great trouble. When she
died she left directions that the book
should be printed from the other two
copies, but as they could not be found,
the executors were obliged to take out
and open the coffin again, and it is
from that copy that the book was
printed