Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-08
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

under an alias
Justice Stanley Matthews viii summer at
Pittsfeld, Mass
Judge Tourgee, tho author, has patented
metal fence post
The car of Russia plays tho trombone a
we'll as the autocrat.
Cardinal Gibbons was bishop at 3S and
an archbishop at Al.
Lord Shrewsbury has made big thing out
of his noiseless tire cabs.
Dr.. McCosh is preparing q set OF lectures
on Fundamental proof"
The late Marshal Lebouf was physically
the finest man in the French army.
President Dwight, Of Yale, has received
the degree Of LII. D. from Princeton
Bishop O'Sullivan, of Mobile, was at one
time sexton Of church in Jersey City.
E. P Roe entertains guests by reading to
them chapters from his forthcoming novel
Wilkie Collins letters are headed with
a monogram in which quill pieic',s the
letters.
Master ]. Miller, Is years old, Is the organ
ist of ST. Clements Episcopal church In
Philadelphia.
DR.. McCosh, ex-president of Princeton col
lege. will spend the summer in Maine and
New Hampshire.
Sheridan knew nothing Of his mothers
death, and the old lady knew nothing OF her
great sons iunesa
The fine imposed upon Gen. Cafare1, i'm
dictated in the French decoration scandal,
has teen RENTED.
A. W. Longfellow, Of Portland, Me-, is 70
years old and bears strong resemblance to
his brother, the poet.
The prince of Wales has seventeen brothers
fn-law, sixteen uncles, ifty-seven cousins and
ffty-eight nephews and nieees.
Mr.. Waiter Besant is small, animated,
bright eyed and black haired man, fond
of the theatre, claret and pipe.
The emperor of Brazils bill for one months
living expenses for himself and suite at
Milan, Italy, amounted to $4,000.
Lord Wolseley has presided over meeting
to consider military cycling and pronounced
the bicycle military instrument Of great
promise.
So far Pasteurs receipt for killing the Aus
tralian rabbits with chicken cholera has
failed The rabbits inoculated showed no
signs of disease.
The father of Mr. Blackburne, the great
chess player, is professional phrenologist,
and predicted of his son, when a child, that
he would become exceedingly proficient in
chess.
Mad King Ohio, Of Bavaria, no longer
iamuses himself by peeGng potatoes, but now
imagines himself mole and hides in dark
corners or crouches beneath beds and other
articles OF furniture.
The word bandana comes from Hindus-
tani. Band hnu band hna, to te), mode
of dyeing in which the fabric is tied in knots
SO as to exclude the color from the knotted
portions, and thus produce white spots
When he was offered barooeucy Mr.
George F. Watts declined it. 1T would" he
said, 'Inake me paint neither better nor
worse, nor would it affect in any way the
quality of my work, SO where is the use Of
it,"
Mrs. Donald Crawford, whose name was
connected with the famous Dixie scandal,
has become very devout of late. She has
joined the Wesleyans in London, and is an
enthusiastic adherent Of the Rev. Hugh Price
Hughes.
Sir Moren Mackenzie, it is rumored, is
likely to be made a haronet by Queen Vic
toria, as an additional mark of gratitude for
his services to her daughter, the empress,
and her son-in-law, the late German en-
peror.
N. de Blowitz, the eccentric Paris CORE
spondent of The London Times, is inclined to
think that the new French rife is a wonder
full weapon. he says that it is both noiseless
and smokeless and sends bullet with perfect
accuracy a distance Of four miles
Mayor Filter, of Philadelphia, is rope
Iuaker, and he sometimes exhibits to h!s
friends curious rope cable thar he keeps IN
his Office. 1t is made Of hangnen's ropes,
each strand having been taken from rope
by which some poor criminals neck was
broken.
Prince Rupert, heir presumptive to tho
throne of Bavaria, has been ordered to re-
mote town in mad King Otho's domirions,
with instructions to report for duty as subal-
tern Of an artillery regiment. He is in dis
grace with the regent for having run of for
q weeks spree in Paris without asking leave