The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23
HOUSTON POST LETTER BOX

main object is TO supply out-cf-the-way facts
and curious Information. Questions OF per-
scnal interest only will not be answered. No
business or personal addresses will be given.
Al, correspondence should be addressed 10 The
Letter BOX. care Houston Post. Owing 10 the
large number OF questions received. answers
can not always be given promptlyo
Some time ago The Post referred casually
to plcnnerhassets Island and the man who
gave the place its name Can you tell me
something about him. LA'W'
Herman Biennerhasset bore the odd dis
tinriion of having a German name. though oi
English birth and Irish descent. He disposed
o. Ills English estates and bought the island
IN the Ohio river. where he erected probably
the finest mansion so far west at that time, In
iSos Aaron Burr happened to visit the place
and succeeded In enlisting Blennerhasset Ia
his Mexican scheme. II Is said Burr was 60
be emperor and Blenncrhasset a duke OF
something OF the kind. Blennerhasset invest
&C practically all his resources In the scheme.
He was finally apprehendcd but the case
against him fell through. BY that time MA
island home was IN the hands of his creditors
He Invested some money in a cotton planta-
tion. but the war OF 1912 made that q failure
Then he practiced law IN Montreal and went
to ireland TO prosecute some claims there. But
things went from bad to worse, and he finally
had to depend for support upon the estate oil
a maiden sister. HIS wife, the daughter OF
a governor OF the Isle of Man, was buried by
the Sisters of Charity in New York, and Blen-
nerhasset himself passed away on the Island
Of Guernsey in 1851.
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, word usoa In sneak
,ns ~n nS French poliacss &.G.
| onportun,sm means ouickness to grasp fav-
orahla opportunjtes and 10 modify ones con
| a,o, or no,irv In accordance with them; IN a
| bad sense II means the sacrifice of consis-
,encv and PRINCIPLES to policy. In French
notifies an opportunist is member OF that
| section OF the republican party which believes
in regulating political action in accordance
Nm circumstances and not by dogmatie
,rinoIples. This word first came into use In
ls7s The opportunists were the party OF
concession and occupied an intermediate po-
s,,,op between the various groups OF monarch
lists md intransgentists the extreme section
n, the republican party. Their leader was
| camhetta.
| .,o, no tne
French and are any OF the aese9 ,iui,n IN IN,
! original colonists there nv" iNs- =. r.
town?
| The Mission Refugio was fouhoeu ny Wv
| Spaniards In i19l, not by tue frsnen'
we're some attempts In the l'2o's 10 occupy .n'
! su,f coast for the French, but none resulted
| in n permanent settlement, You possibly nav
In mind the colony of French refugees "h
| settled on the Texas coast In 1873 Thcir COZ
my however, was near the mouth OF IN
Trinity. 1t was called Cham dAsile ana wa
soon broken up by drouth ana the spaniarus
| There were also some french coiohies es'hp
| lished in Texas at a later date
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Parliament establishes for her civil hst'
All the revenues of the crown arc part OF
the consolidated fund. The queen has an
annual allowance of si.s2SoOO. or this sSo''-
900 is paid into her matesty's privy purse;
sl.256SO0 for salaries OF the roSai noueuno.'
s22l 200 for pensions for servants SODIUM iof
aims etc, Tho surplus Is applied TO inc keu'
ersl expenditure OF her majesty court
queen has other revenues, hotapp tnoso y,
the Duchy OF Lancaster l""' ''''
her 100000.
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year, how Is u ina, we 40 no, 'ee N "a. a
IN inc sam pin.e az ~ oar,h,s no,es CAUSED
inc 'ne'.ua mo .ossons Durinx the
the phehonena " H. =, ~. equator "a al.
who,e yea ~" no sun. during our sum.
reVes ws.,,,.. ha,,i,nher. is exposed more
nlei tho w. ,avs a, the sun. and thus
ufe'' .,,.r xv,,l. during the same
,.,. IN. southern hemisphere. where the
months INC oou'NS -, 10. a.. ,y,nte,
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