Wichita eagle., 1888-11-23
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

PERSONAL GOSSIP.
John L. Sullivan has just celebrated his
50th birthday.
Long John Wentworth was worth t6,000,-
900 when be died
Charles King, Of Middletown, Mass. is 107
years old and has over 600 living descend
ants.
Miss Crabtree Gotta, has just spent SIS, 900
for bric-a-brac to ornament her house at
Lake Hopatcong.
The young Duke Of Newcastle is "a years
old and not at all handsome, but be has an
income Of s300,O 900 year.
Mrs. Funi Ando, the wife Of the japanese
consul general at Honolulu, devotes her time
largely to temperance work.
Sir Morell Mackenzie was impelled to
study medicine and surgery by the earnest
advice OF his widowed mother.
Henry Willard says he attributes his success
as a railroad man to the knowledge he gained
of human nature by newspaper work
A handsome offer has been made to Col
Robert G. Ingersoll by a foreign manager to
| deliver forty lectures in Europe next spring.
The Contesse de Paris has ordered 1850
small gold roses to present to some OF the
most faithful adherents OF her husbands
family.
John Ruskin has ut length permitted a
photograph of himself TO be given to the
public. Ruskin loves beauty, but he is not
beautiful.
john G. Whittier's great ambition when
be was boy was to become politician.
But the world gained by the fact that he did
not lay his pipes, but piped his lays.
'sMr Gladstone is at work on his own auto
biography" says Chicago newspaper. Glad
stone is great man, but he could hardly
write another mans Autobiography.
The Duke and Duchess d'Aosta dispensed
with honeymoon and are living quietly at
the dukes palace. They will shortly pay a
visit to Empress Eugene at Marlborough.
Mr.. Hubert Herkomer, in recent lecture
upon art, said that an artist had mo right"
to paint the portrait OF man with whom he
had no sympathy or of a woman whom he
did not admire
The Rev. F. L. H. Pott, young Episco-
palian clergyman of Greenwich, Conn, who
went out to China about year ago, has
married Miss S. n. Wong, whose father was
the first Chinese convert to Christianity.
Cardinal Gibbons Is a small man with steel
gray eyes, close cut gray hair and q genial
manner. He never refuses visitor, and is
always willing, when interviewed on any i'm
portant subject to talk-about the weather.
The late Mrs. Burns Macdonald, men
toned by the queen in her Journal" as sole
heiress and descendant of the Macdonalds of
Glencoe, fascinating little grand
mother at the age of 10, excessively fond Of
dancing, particularly waltzing. and beau
tiful embrOiderer of her own evening dresses.
The news from Europe that Nine Nicolini-
Patti, not being able to find purchaser for
Craig-y-Nos, has decided to turn the castle
into an institution for the cultivation of the
voices of poor but gifted girls If she shall
carry out this design her farewell concert
tours and even her high prices will be for
given.
The Duke Confucius, lneal descendant Of
Chlna's greatest sage, is one of the greatest
personages In Pelin. He is about 90 and
of singularly aristocratic and prepossessing
appearance. His nose is of a kind very I'M
common amongst the Chinese, being of the
type known as the Roman, but small and
finely chiseled.
Mrs. Towhom, who had been housekeeper
at Warwick CASTLE England, for a great
many years, has just died, leaving fortune
of $3.50, 900. All of this money she bequeathed
to her master, who is not wealthy. Mrs.
Towhom made her money from tips obtained
from sightseers-a case of getting wealth in
fee simple, Is it were.
Lord Hereford, who arrived in San Fran
cisco from japan, took pains while travelling
to the east coast of Africa to visit many Of the
localities made famous in Rider Haggard's
''She" On ono spot where two tribes fought
a battle, in which 2,000 men were slain, his
lordship picked up 4 number Of human bones,
which be prizes highly as souvenirs.
Rider Haggard has a curious theory re-
garding the fate of Henry u. Stanley. He
thinks that the explorer is alive, but that he
has been seized, taken into the interior OF
Africa and deifed by some of the tribes He
is inclined to think that Stanley will be
treated with the greatest kindness and ven
GRAFTON. but that he will not be permitted to
escape.
Alderman Whitehead, who will be installed
lord mayor OF London, is a fan maker by
trade. He is, Of course, very wealthy, Us
the salary for his year of Office, $50, 900, will
not suffice for more than half Of his ex-
penses The glories Of the position are many.
The lord mayor ranks and has the precedence
of an English earl during his reign Of twelve
months
Chief Justice Fuller's family will bea great
addition to Washington society. OF his
numerous daughters three are old enough to
indulgein social gayeties They are pleasant,
well hammered girls and will be popular
There is q fourth daughter, who is studying
music in Europe, who has reached the age
deemed necessary for an entrance to society.
She will be home this fall.
George ". Ckilds has at his country seat,
near Bryn Mawr, grove of trees each Of
which was planted by some famous person.
Gen. Sherman planted pine tree there on
Pennsylvania's Arbor Day Mr. Childs
greatly regrets that ne has not tree planted
by Sheridan The late Lmented general in
tended to plant a tree at 'Wootton" last year
when Mrs. Cleveland went through that
ceremony.
Professor Won Lauer, physician to the late
Emperor William Of Germany, holds the
rank OF general in the Prussian army. In
December be will celebrate the sixtieth ami
versary Of his entrance into the public
service. He was appointed surgeon at the
Charity hospital, Berlin, in 1873, and re-
manned there over two years, when he was
made an army surgeon He has just CON-
pleted his SOth year.