Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-29
Capt Carter, Of the Yale University crew,

Capt Carter, Of the Yale University crew.
is nearly six feet and weighs 200 pounds.
While in Berlin Carl Schurz passes good
part of his time in the Geological garden
The Duke of Marlborough will endeavor
| TO awaken an interest in trosting horses in
England
Representative Dalzell, Of PENNSYLVANIA
| is now considered the best dressed man in
| the house
Robert Louis Stevenson was once arrested
! in France He is now writing Up the officer
| who arrested him.
| Judge Elias Smith, who died recently in
! Salt Lake City. left two widows, five sons
and seven daughters.
| The Rev. F. j. Kennedy, young priest of
/ Phfladelphia, is the new vice rector of the
| American college in Rome.
| Reushaw, the civil engineer, who is now .
brother-in-law OF the Duke Of Marlborough,
is a man about feet inches in height
| Sir Morell Mackenzie has introduced
| gon6ola on the Thames German doctors
| say that this IS distinctly unprofessional
J. G. rurnbul is the Jay Gould OF Aus
| tralia. His fortune is estimated at 81, oOo.-
600. He is now visiting in Philadelphia
! Herbert Ward the explorer, of whom
much is now heard in connection with Stan
/ ley, is nephew OF Rowland Ward, the nat
uraist.
| Ross A. Winens. who hires so many deer
forests in Scotland, has been sued by the
trustees Of Lord Lovatt for IS 500 for rent
due, and condemned ~ pay.
Herr Tisza, the Austrian prime minister is
Hungarian. He was born in 1880, and is 4
very wealthy land owner. having inherited
large estate from his father
Lord Teanvson is a great worker, but he is
also great smoker. He IS reported as say
ing to a frield in regard TO a certain verse.
Il smoked a dozen cigars over that line"
Edward GEORGE Washington Butler, of St.
Louis, is the -dezt living graduate of West
Point. lie was graduated in 1918 He re-
manned in she army until lS47, when he re-
signed
President Cleveland continues to receive
curious presents. Two small, live red foxes
have reached him from Dr. Frost, of Rolla,
Mo The animals are named respectively
Cleveland and Thurman.
President David J. Hin, of BuckneN uni
versity, Pa, VII accept the presidency of
the University of Rochester, with leave of
absence to study philosophy and institutions
in Europe for one year, with expenses paid.
James Russell Lowell suffers severely from
govt, but oDstinately refuses to comply with
his physicians instructions. He has Joined
tie committee in charge of the commence
ration of the bi-centenary OF Alexander Pope
Charles G. Leland is president of gypsy
lore society i'll England, which includes
among its members Sir Richard Burton,
Paul Batail lard. Archduke Joseph of Hun
gary and other eminent authors and scholars
correspondent says that Samuel j. Ran
dali has young son known as Little Sam
Randall WHO wears glasses and closely re-
semb!es his father 1t is added, also, that
the youth Is as fat as butter and Us sharp as
as tack.
1t is whispered with some excitement amorr
Ward AtAE4ster's select 400 that EIlot
Zb3rowss1i, the best catch of the day has
been landed by "a fair damsel who is now at
Newport, = l. Zborowski has an income Of
5000 year.
JOAQUIN Miller is living the existence of a
herm.l ia the mountains near Oakland, Cal
He Is engaged UPON poem of some length,
entitled "Lesencs # Christ" ernbodying
quaint stories picked up by Miller when he
lived in Levaut.
Lord Charles Beresford is coming to this
country in OctoJer to join an expedition to
southern California. where there are said to
be mics OF UNEMPLOYED country, presumably
as wei s5oclel with gold mines IS any other
part oil California.
Cornelius Collins, of the government bu-
reau Of engraving and printing has been a
most faithful and persevering worker He
hes lost only FIVE days in the twenty four
years during which he has been IN the ser
vice OF the government.
Mr.. Hosea Fl. Lincoln, for forty-two years
principal of the Lyman school, East Boston,
has just entered the ministry of the Unita
ran Chureh. Tie is 81 years old. but in
splendid health, and reasonably hopes TO
perform many years service in his new field
Paul Grottkau, the Chicago Anarchist. has
returned TO the occupation sf his earlier
years and has opened a photograph estab-
lishment near the historic Havmarket With
strange Inconsistency he refuses 10 take pic
lures FOR nothing. His is evidently mega
tive philosophy which does not apply 70 neg
atives.
Mr.. Depew was member OK the \ ale
class Of 1856 Some of his classmates have
also attained distinction. Among them were
Gen. Wager Swayne John d. Chsrnpiin, Jr,
and the Rev T. c. Towne, Of New York;
Corporation Counsel E. F. Nettieson, Of Bos-
ton, and Col John Mason Brown, Of Ken
lucky.
The degree Of Doctor Of Music has been
conferred by Oxford university upon DR.
Walter 8. Gilbert. organist Of Trinity
chapel, West Twenty ffth street, New York
The degree Of Doctor OF Laws has been CON
ferred upoa the Protestant Episcopal biEh-
ops of Fredericton, New York and Mime
sofa.
SOME FISH STORIES.