Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-16
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PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The car has started on two months tour
Of southern Russia.
Samuel j. Randall never studied law, in
spite Of the fact that most people have the
impression that he is q lawyer
The trustees appointed by Kaiser Freder-
lex LII were Queen Victoria, the king of the
Belgians and the Duke Of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha.
Carl Schurz viii prolong his stay in Ger
many until the end of October, owing to a
painful operation recently performed upon
his SON
Greenoush has been modelling the bust of
George Bancroft for the Harvard library.
1t is larger than life and is TO be cast in
bronze.
Joseph Thomson, the plueky African ex-
plorer, is only 81 years old eHe is Of medium
height, but is robust and wiry. He comes
from Dumfries.
The late King Ludwigs executors have
almost cleared of the kings debts. There is
a good prospect of rebuilding the Bavarian
royal fortune.
Admiral Porter, in his nth year, preserves
his health by eating simple food, rarely
drinking tea and Coffee smoking in mod
Grafton, and keeping pleasantly busy.
Gen. Boulanger and bis daughter are stay
ing at Christiania, Norway, according to an
authoritative announcement. His Journey
to that city is not connected with politics.
Secretary Endicott has returned to Wash
ington and is again in charge of the war
department He has been spending the sum-
ner in the cooling shadow OF his family tree.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, the ex-Confed-
crate leader, is living quietly at the Palace
hotel, San Francisco He is the last of the
officers of the COnfederacy to bear the full
rank of general
Thomas Connery, who recently resigned
his position as secretary of the American
legation in Mexico, will, it is said, soon pub
lish e book upon Mexico, which he prepared
while in that country.
England is now stirred up over the question
rs to whether Mr.. Gladstone speaks with
provincial accent. Whether he does or does
not is not essential. What he says is not
provincial by good deal
Louis, King of Portugal, is seldom to be
Seen without a cigar, and he converses
fuently in English, French, Italian, Portu-
guese, Spanish, German and Swedish He is
pleasant and tells ever SO many anecdotes.
K Tatsumo, professor in Toxic university,
and japanese authority on engineering and
architecture, is now in the United States
studying American architecture, preparatory
to making plans for the Imperial bank build
ing of Japan.
The Sir John Savile to whom Queen Vic
toria has lately granted peerage has been
well known in the United States, where he
served in diplomatic capacities from 1854 to
1857. He was familiar figure both in Wash
fngton and New York
Enoch Pratt, who gave Baltimore, Nd, a
free library, has just celebrated his eighty
first birthday. Mr.. Pratt gave property
worth SZZ5O, 600 and his check for $3.50, 900 to
tho city and agreed to give $4,000 year II,
the support of the library.
Herman Meriva!e, the poet and playwright
who was lately travelling on the continent
with his wife, found their names oddly en-
tered on one hotel register by German
waiter who thought lie knew English Tho
inscription was, 'Mr. and Mrs. Human Mar
veLn
Mr.. Andrew Carnegies income is set down
at 81 800, 900 per year, which means S125, 900
per month, SOS, 4S6 per week, 81, 120S5 per
day, sSi3. 40 per hour, 1912 per minute and
95 l-3 cents per second, the latter sum being
q few cents more than an iron ore miner in
Pennsylvania receives for working IS, 200
seconds, or II hours per day. No juggling
can change these figures.