Wichita eagle., 1889-09-14
PERSONAL GOSSIP,

| men, IS superstitlous-
| The youngest admiral of the English feet
{ is Sir Godfrey Horribly
| ". S. Huntingdon says railroads viii soon
make 100 miles per hour.
| The Comte de Paris is supposed to have
4Oo, 900 or 500, 900 francs year.
George Meredith has an intellectual, deli
cateIy cut, highly spiritual face
Samuel Trust, of Ripley county. Ind, is
| seven fest tall and is still growing.
Lord Brassey's London house is described
as a dream of loveliness from floor 30 ceiling.
! Hadje Hassein Ghooh Khan still has Ameri-
can newspaper clippings sent to him il Eu-
| rope
Brown-Sequard has become-a more inter
esting parsonage to visitors in Paris than Pas
| teur.
Jerry Moron, of Hancock county, ". Va,
| is over 20 years of age and scarcely three feet
high.
Ex-Mavor Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia,
was the first American to dance with Queen
Victoria
George Bancroft preached from his fathers
pulpit several times during his tutorsnip at
Harvard In 1872.
John L. Sullivan considers his experience
in Mississippi court the best advertisement
he ever receiyed.
NJ Charks GARNER, the famous French
architect, has refined nervous face and hair
touched with gray.
The pope has had his large bedroom fillai
with beautiful birds and seems TO take, great
pleasure Ii watching them.
Tony Pastor. now SO years old, made his
first appearance before the public at the age
OF o years by singing at temperance meetings.
Commodore Robert w Whiting, of Brook
lyn, is IA years old, but he is having a new
boat built with which he expects to row 100
miles day.
Lord Robert Cecil, the second son of Lord
Salisbury, is practicing at the English bar
He means business, and bids fair to become. a
good lawyer.
Mr.. Gladstone says that he brought his
children up without cpnstraint. They have
never been governed at any period Of their
lives by force"
Mr.. Labouchere kindly observes that the
German emperor seems to be manly young
a
is comnlendable.
sir Edward Wetlzim has formed company
with capital of 81 900 900 for the erection
in London of a tower twice the height of the
Eiffel tower at Paris.
The Swedish composer, War Hsllstrom,
has just completed an opera, ''Neaga," the
Hbretto of which is from the pen of Queen
Elizabeth of Rolunania.
The oldest admiral in England is Sir
Provo Wallace, aged 90 He was in the fight
in 1872 between the Shannon aud the Chesa-
peake,. but he never commanded steam YES
sell
III. SolabeI, French architect, who has
been employed of late i'll the palace of the
king of Corea, was recently stoned by the
servants of the palace and had to fee for his
life
Mr. Maybrick f'Stephen Adans'1, the pop
ular English singer is much distressed at the
death of his brother and the sentencing Of
that brothers wife for murder, and has cam
celed all engagements for year.
Capt Sidney NJ Hinman, the young navi-
gator who made the voyage from New York
to Boston in thessmauest boat that ever made
the trip, is preparing for trip from New
York to Key West Fla, in a dory.
Justice Field is a small man, owing to his
short legs. His front is impressive. His
forehead is high, running back into polished
badness; his remaining hair is bushy and sill
very and his beard a venerable white.
William Waldorf Astor, who is the heir
presumptfve To about $500, 900. 900, is a model
man for a mil honaire's son. Although mod
erately fond of horses and yachting and a
good boxer and fencer, he is more OF man
of business than man of pleasure
Oliver Optic thinks that if he had half a
dozen wide awake American boys to amuse
he could do it better in Constantinople than
in London or Paris. The two latter cities
would not seem so much unlike New York or
Boston to them, but in the city of the sultan
everything they saw would have the charm
OF novelty.