Wichita eagle., 1889-08-22
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Daily Eagle
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Gen. Horace Porter is the youngest looking
pnan of his age in the country.
Ex-President Cleveland is said to have in
vented a new fy for trout fishing.
Lord Tennyson received royal order for
poem on the recent Fife wedding.
Attorney General Miller will not enter any
rarriaGe unless he can handle the reins him
self.
Secretary Blaine spent twenty-eight years
of his life in Washington, and never Joined
club.
Milan Obrenovitch, ex-king of Servia, has
an income of s9O, 900 and is steadily running
into debt.
The amount devoted by the Prince of Wales
to the provision of his daughters trousseau
was 100000
Mr.. Ernest Longfellow has just developed
beautiful set of views taken during a recent
trip through Italy.
Joseph Chamberlain once wrote a comedy
which was Immediately rejected as ''unsuit-
able to any stage"
Col. A E. Jones, who was murdered in
Cincinnati, was an uncle of Robert J. Bur-
dette, the humorist
Senator Quay is said to receive more let
ters than any other man in the United States
except the president.
Phineas T. Barnum's activity and energy
at this period Of his life are surprising, even
to the people who know him best.
Martin Farquhar Upper, the famous au-
thor Of "Proverbial Philosophy" lives in a
IL
NJ. Renan declines ell offers TO write for
foreign periodicals lie says that lie must
devote all his time to French literature
The shah's present visit to England has
brought out the fact that at his last visit he
tried to buy the Duchess Of Manchester.
u. Jules Simon, the eminent French states
man, has quiet dignity, ease, a cool head, and
the faculty to simulate warmth and genuine
emotion.
Marshal MacMahon, ex-president of France,
now in his Slst year, is as fresh a boy, and
has never yet had from a natural cause
days sickness.
In summer Louis Kossuth lives at a villa
near Rivoi, in winter in the Via del Mile, at
Turin, and is always accompanied by his SIS
ter, who adores him.
T Wemyss Reid, who drafted the Liberal
clubs address to Mr. Gladstone on the occa-
sion of his golden wedding, is one of the best
whist players in the world.
President Carnot of France is dreadfully
stiff and correct in everything, rather, in
short, too conscientiously gentleman like and
200 scrupulously well bred.
1t is rumored that Ckuuncey NJ Depew
has invited Gladstone to visit the United
States and to make trip to Alaska, and
that there is some prospect OF his acceptance.
Count Tolstoi. the famous Russian novel
writer and philanthropist, after being an in
veterate smoker recently stopped entirely.
He says that ever since he can't write and is
helpless without tobacco.
King Alexander of Servia is only - years
old, but looks like an English boy Of sixteen.
He has bright features His forehead is low,
his eyes are large and soft, but his nose and
mouth show indecision of character.
NJ Jules Simon, the eminent French states
man, has dignity, ease and the faculty to
simulate emotion. He is good speaker and
steers clear Of defamation, using a vein Of
irony AID sarcasm that can completely over
throw his opponent.
Robert Browning has been very generally
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on the memory of Fitzgerald. He is at work
on a series of short poems on various sub
jects, written in the semi-bumorous, philo-
sophical vein Of "Jocoseria-"
The Duke of Fife can never be quite at his
ease with his wife's relations, as under no cir
cunlstances must he ever turn his back to any
of them, not even to Princess LouiSe's sisters,
with whom it is reasonable to suppose he en-
joys q fair degree of intimacy.
joseph Skipsey, the new custodian of
sShakespeare's birthplace, a miner before
he became poet, beginning as trapper boy
at the age of Z. That was just fifty years
ago. He learned TO read on Sundays, not at
Sunday school, but at home in his fathers
garnet.
When Mr. Andrew CiGrke entered London
hospital rs an assistant he was in poor health
Poor Scotch beggar," said one OF the facul-
", ''let him have a place; he cannot possibly
live more than six months" He is now, after
these many years of eminent service, Sir An
drew Clarke, perhaps the most famous ply
Hcian in England