Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-28
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Senator Cullom prides himself on looking
like Lincoln.
Mr.. Bret Harte has taken up his permanent
residence in London
Secretary Rusk is addicted to the old fash
toned habit Of taking snuff
Sir Julian Pauncefote is one Of the cleverest
swordsmen at Washington.
Herbert Gladstone says his father is still
good for twenty mile tramp.
Charles Dudley Warner is paid 81 200 a
year for his department in Harper's Magazine.
Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, is confined
to his bed from a complication of ailments
due to old age.
The emperor of Russia has purchased ST
emiradzke's colossal picture Of 'Phryne in
Eleusis" for 20, 900 rubles.
Adolph Sutro will build magnificent Ii
brary for San Francisco and also give the
city park Of 400 acres.
Professor James Russell Lowell will return
to his residence at Cambridge, Mass, when
he has finished his English trip.
Archdeacon Philpott, who lately died in
England at the age of nearly 80 years, left
thirty-six grandchildren to mourn his loss.
Three of the richest merchants in the
country are comparatively young men Wan
anaker is 81, Marshall Field, of Chicago, IS,
and Phil Armour, IS.
IL Gaume, the Catholic bookseller of Paris,
who recently died at the age of 50, was one
of the last survivors of Napoleon's armies,
and took part in the expedition to Moscow.
John Sherman is the only man now in the
senate who was a member of that body when
the bill was passed abolishing slavery in the
District Of Columbia, twenty-seven years ago.
In the whole history of opera in England,
Carl Rosa appears as almost the only man
ager who always paid twenty shillings in the
pound, and who died worth handsome for
tune.
George W. Winans, state superintendent of
the schools of Kansas, twenty-one years ago
worked as laborer in excavating for the
foundation of the building in which he now
holds, worthily, an honorable Office.
The manuscript of John Lothrop Motleys
''Rise of the Dutch Republic was returned
by Murray, the publisher, with thanks. 1t
was no loss to Motley, but Murray missed a
book that had items of thousands in it,"
President Carnot, of France, is very fond
of Americans, and is cultivating sedulously
the society Of our countryInen now in Paris.
At his receptions moro Americans are to be
found than in any drawing room in Europe.
The shah Of Persia, having been made &C.
Guainted with Sir Edwin Arnold's poetical
work, "With Sadi in the Garden" has con-
ferred upon the author the decoration Of q
commander of the imperia. order Of the Lion
and the Sun.
Capt. Jake" Vanderbilt, the only surviv-
ing brother of the commodore and uncle of
the late William r. Vanderbilt, is on the
ragged edge of four score and two years in
age but is still as hale and hearty as a man
not yet two score.
Justice Gray is the giant of the supreme
bench, and one of the tallest men in official
life. He has dark hair and the forid COM
plexion of the typical English squire. He is
genial. hospitable and greatly given to the
charms of homo life
Henry George has made a wonderful i'm
preston on the Britishers The London and
provincial press agree in saying that he has
swayed the masses more powerfully than any
man who has appealed to them from the
platform in a generation.
Autograph hunters viii do well to let Dr.
Hans Won Bulow alone He has engaged
clever young Russian to write replies to such
bores for him, and she does so in Russian,
generally with touch of satire, as Hans
Won Bulow, commercial traveller in Beetho-
ven."
Mr. Robert u. McIane, recently American
minister at Paris, thinks that Boulanger's in
fuence has fallen OFF a little, and that ii
would fall or a great deal more if he were to
go back on his republican professions and
record-a thing the generals friends tell Mr
McI4ane DO viii never do.
William Dean Howells has returned to Bel
mont, Mass, Of which town he expects to be
come a permanent resident The novelist
used to live there number of years ago and
regards the spot with good deel of affection.
His home there is fine old mansion, sur
rounded by beautiful grounds
One Of the few genuine Cossacks to be
found in New York may be seen In the Office
of the Russian counsel His name Is Or.
Peter PopofI He is 1.-THE, alert and Of sen
guine temperament. He is q scholar Of rare
attachments and man OF the most piacii
disposition. He is a graduate Of the Uni
versity Of ST Petersburg.
What most took the shRh's eye on the &C
caSon Of bis visit TO the car was tie supurb
uniform Of the 400 Imperial Horse guards
who surrounded tbs Russian ruler whsa b
received bis visitor In person at the railway
station The Uniform consists Of spotless
white coat, top boots reaching above tie
knees, and hslmet of what looks Like pure
gold, surmounted By an enormous eagle of
silver.
Mr David Laurie. Of Glaxgow. has refused
$40 900 for the famous "Alard" StradivartGs
violin, but 49, 800 has now been offered On
behalf Of Cd American, and the natter Is
under colsiisratioz- The "Aiard7 formerly
belonged 10 J. B. VuiIlaums, the ezpert. who
gave Ii to bis sonin-law, 81 Dolphin Al.rd,
violin professor a. TIE Paris coDscr- stotre,
who sold il 10 1ir. Laurie. Il Is dated IT'S,
and the oz,ly alteration since made is Sigh:
lergtheaing Of TIE neck
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