Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-22

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Me.ssonier has lost his wife
John Wauamaker's Life is insured for
el,OO0, COO.
Prince Bismarck is shaved every day By
his valet.
Gen Schenck is living quietly in Washing.
ton he IS 19.
James ". Morrissey is spending the sum-
mer Ii Montreal
Fred Douglass, now nearly so years old, Is
to go upon the stump this fall
Count Anton Appoint pocketed $50, 600 by
winning the Austrian Derby.
Cardinal Manning rises at every morn
ing. He viii De SO on the 18th.
Sir John Lubbock spends nearly all his
time Studying the habits Of ants.
Buffalo Bill stepped on banana peel the
other day and picked up diamond pin
John B. Stetson, of Philadelphia, carries
insurance policies aggregatlns S7oo,oOo
Professor Huxley's second son Is student
at St. Bartholomew hospital. London
Lucky Baldwin owns 10000 acres OF
land and has the wool clipped from 10000
sheep every year.
The bronze statue Of Sir William Wallace,
recently unveiled at Aberdeen, is seventeen
feet high and weighs nearly i've tons.
E1-Pres1dent Barnard, of Columbia col
lege. is now doctor Of laws, Of civil law, OF
letters, of divinity and OF philosophy.
Charles Wood has been the king Of the
English jockeys since Archer's death Last
farr hara = win lYr1-r
mounts.
Blackburne, the famous chess player, while
playing refreshes himself with coffee and to-
bacco, and after day work takes little
whisky.
Cardinal Monaco, commonly regarded as
next in the succession to the triple crown, Is
en- UitraInontane and extraordinarily firm
il his convictions.
Before he discovered the cholera microbe
Robert Koch was known simply IS Dr.. Koch
Now be is Herr Geheiner Medicinal Rath
Professor Doctor Robert Koch.
II. Moifer, the wealthy Parisian, who
arnuses himself and the fashionable world
with IN amateur circus, has now rival in
Tou-aina, whose establishment is said to be
as fine as Moler's
The Duke Of Edinburgh. who YVES recently
poisoned by the bad water Of Gibraltar, has
long had passion for quack medicines. He
is son- ling Of a hypochondriac, and IS
always dosing himself with some patent
nostTum-
Mr.. Hoses Il. Lincoln, for forty-two years
principal Of the Lyman school, East Bos-
ton, has Just entered the ministry Of the
I-ri-ar;ar church He il az wears old bIlr
In splendid health, and reasonably hopes 20
perform many years service IN his new field
Professor Arthur L rockingham, associ-
ate in the chair Of art at Princeton college,
has been invited TO accompany the exploring
expedition which is TO be sent to Babyionla
By tie University Of Pennsylvania. IN his
studies Professor Frothing hsm has devoted
particular attention 30 Babyionian and
ancient art
Mr.. T. NJ Wells has completed a clay
model Of he bronze statue Of James W.
Marshall, to be erected on the spot where
gold was first discovered III California Ii IS
OF colossal size and represents Marshall clad
in a miners dress, holding a nugget in his
right hand and with his left pointing to the
spot whence it was taken
When Phil Armour, the great Chicago pork
packer, goes on 4 Journey De gre2ses his way
as no other millionaire in the country does.
be goes to New York by the Vanderbilt
roads on one Of the vestibule trains, and gives
the engineer, conductor and Wagner con-
ductor each a S. note. Then he gives the
brakeule1, walters and barber each 81. And
vet be does not travel whit Elore comfort
able than any one else