Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-05
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

E1-Empress Eugene is making prepare
| tons for two months tour In Grenada
| Spain.
Anton Rubinstein viii celebrate the fiftietf
anniversary Ct bis first public performance
| on July %.
The Duke of Westminster will run hi:
| great two-year-old Ornament for the frs1
| time at Ascot.
Professor and Mrs Phelps, Of Andover
have gone to Bar Harbor, the first of the
summer cottagers to arrive there
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain have pur
chased plot of ground in Kensington court
! wherein beautiful house will be soon built
Robert NJ. McLane, ex-minister of the
United States to France will spend year in
( Paris after he is relieved by Whitelaw Reid.
| Henry George and Samuel Smith, Glad.
stonian member of parliament, will engage
| in a public debate in London some time II
May
The lord mayor of London has raised g
| fund of 5000 to pay the expenses Of a dele
cation of English workingmen at the Pari:
| exposition.
1
Bismarck with an enormous hund in place
! Of the chancellor s famous Reichshund, who
died some months ago.
DR.. and Mrs Harvey Lindsey, Mr. Cleve-
lands Oak View tenants, will celebrate there
some time this summer the sixtieth anniver-
sary of their wedding day
Robert Patterson Kane, the only surviving
brother of the celebrated Arctic explorer,
lives IN Philadelphia. He is a distinguished
looking man, about IS years Of age.
H. Rider Haggard is at work on a novel
which he says will be bis greatest effort.
He is putting a great deal of polish on it
and the work will not be completed for two
years.
Hiram Williamson, one Of the immortal
1900" who rode into the valley of death, II
at Balaklava, in 1854. has just been made
chief porter at the Boston postoffice. He is
20 years of age.
The English press Is demanding new song
for use at public meetings in place of Hes a
jolly good fellow, which, it is insisted, is in
appropriate to Gladstone Salisbury, and al
most everybody else in whose honor it is now
sung.
800, coo to his grandson, and only life inter
est in half that sum TO his daughter, the
grandson's mother. The young man has
just made an absolute gift of 81, 100000 to
his mother
In place Of the yellow button which usually
suImounts the top of the cap Of a mandarin
OF high rank, the Chinese minister at Wash
mgton wears a magnificent opal as large as a
pullet's egg, surrounded by a circle of two
carat diamonds
The bishop of Nisch, who opposed the di-
vorce of King Milan of Servia from Queen
Natalie, and was therefore deprived of his
see, has now mysteriously disappeared. 1t is
intimated that through Milan's agency he
has been secretly shut up in some remote
monastery.
Pat Feeney, popular Irish comedian, who
not long ago gave $4,000 to the Duchess of
Marlborough's fund for the relief of misery
in Ireland, is now SO reduced in circum-
stances, owing to illness, that he is depend
ing upon the proceeds OF benefit at Dublin
to keep him from starvation
A conspicuous leader of society at st. Pc
Cersburg just now is Count Sheremetieff, who
belongs to one of the best Russian families,
and Is at The same time one of the richest
members of the Russian aristocracy He is
still a young man and married to a daughter
of Count Heyden, governor general Of Fin
land
That everlasting marriage with a de-
ceased wife's sister" business is still vexatious
in England Here is Miss Ethel Huxley,
daughter OF the illuStrious scientist, engaged
to her late sisters widower, the Hon. J.
Collier. They can't be married in England,
OF course, so next month the whole Huxley
family has to go over to Christiania for the
wedding, which is allowable under Norwegian
law.