Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-03
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Is an Illness"
e Sir Julian Pauncefote is an invetera,
| cigarette smoker
W. Clark Russell, the Aovelist. suffers te,
n ribly from rheumatism
: The late Sir Thomas Dakins body wa
l. buried in paper coffin
The Duke Of Portland Is now eonsidere
the luckist man in England
Dr.. Austin Phelps is at Bar Harbor, randi
regaining health after dangerous illness
: Kaid Mclean, Scouchman, is command =
in-ch'ef Of the army Of the sultan Of Morocco
Professor g. G. Stokes, the president Of tn
Royal Society Of England, has been made
baronet.
t Jules Ferry, the eminent French statesman
is bent and gray, and has aged ten years il
: the last two.
Louis Kossuth has so greatly improved il
health that it is now thought he may liv
several years
N. Taine, whose study Of English 1iteratur
has been little less than profound, does no
speak word Of the language
Mr.. Charles Morley, nephew Of Mr. job,
Morley, is one Of the cleverest writer's on tn,
staff of The Pail Mall Gazette.
Prince Albert Victor will make tour Il
India during the coming winter. The triI
will include visits to all the native states.
Secretary Noble finds Washington 50 pleas
ant after St Louis that he is going to stay
there this summer, and his wife will stay with
him.
E. G. Benedict win pass the summer enter
tanning on bis yacht Edwin Booth and T. B.
Aldrich, and possibly Richard Mansfield and
Lawrence Barrett.
The late Baron Ignaz Kolisch was ten year.
ago one of the best chess players in Europe
He was for some years owner Of The Vienna
Allgemeine Zeitung.
Barrett Wendell, the Boston writer, author
of 1.-THE Duchess Amelia" is IS years of age
and at present assistant professor Of English
j literature at Harvard
BADGES, is of slave descent on his mothers
side, and is the first mulatto who has received
the honor Of knighthood.
Arab Pasha, the Egyptian patriot, COM
plains that his incarceration at Ceylon is kill
ing him. The climate is too damp. and be is
tortured with rheumatism.
Theodore Tilton, now a white haired old
man, is to be seen every night at famous
chess cafe in Paris. There is talk that he will
soon publish history Of the great Beecher-
| Tilton trial
Edward Hanlan arrived at San Francisco
on the steamer Zealandia, after an absence Of
nearly three years. He says that his rowing
| days are over, and that he is going back to
Toronto to live.
The shah Is everywhere accompanied by q
boy Of only or years of age, famous
soothsayer Of Teheran having told the shah
that he viii have nothing to fear as long as
that little boy is by his side.
When Secretary Tracy, of the navy, was a
newspaper man he took up only very weighty
themes in politics He was very exact in his
phraseology, and took the utmost care in pre-
pairing bis manuscripts for the printer.
George Augustus Sala, the journalist, who
was the special correspondent of several Eng
lish newspapers during the centennial in
Philadelphia, is reported to have declined an
offer of knighthood from Queen Victoria
Capt Murrell, of the Missouri has received
piece Of plate and purse Of So 500 from the
lord mayor and citizens of London. Each Of
the steamers officers received a gold watch
and two months pay and each member Of the
crew two months pay.
Munemitsu Mutsu, Japanese minister to the
United Stataf, has rented for the summer a
residence ab Mount Pleasant, suburb Of
Washington. He will entertain bis friends
there and there is prospect that his subur-
ban home will become famous
John Fiske, the historian, who now turns
the scale ct 24S, was very slender as youth,
and at the time of his marriage had scarcely
more than half his present girth. Hestudied
law at Harvard, but did not like the practice
of it. and commenced author"
DR.. James B. Hunter, who died recently in
New York, was one of the best known sur
geons in the country. lie served during the
war in the Sixtieth regiment Of Indiana vol
unteers, and was afterward editor of The
New York Medical Journal He was an au-
thority on cancer
Capt. r. B. Forbes, of Boston, who is now
In bis S5th year, is engaged npiling &C
counts of some of the principal shlpwrecks of
the past fifty years They win be published
in book form, and are designed for the in
struction Of seamen, who may learn wisdom
from the misfortunes Of others
Leonard SWEET, who died in Chicago re-
Gently, was one of the leading residents of
that city. For years he had been promi-
nent member Of the bar. He made the nom
nation speech Of Abraham Lincoln for presi-
dent In 1860. and performed the same service
for Walter Q. Gresham in 1855
The Earl of Caithness fifteenth Of his title,
whose death was announced recently in Lon
don, IN the S1st year Of his age, will be re-
membered in America as Lord Berriedale.
He visited this country some ten years ago
with his father, the late earl Both peers were
men of much scholarly attainment
Mr.. John Mayo, of Dooly county, Ga, is
splendid shot He is an invalid, and sits in |
the door of his house and shoots lizards from |
his fences with a rife He shoots crows on |
the wing with a pistol When he has hogs |
killed negro man jumps astride Of hog, |
catches hold Of both ears Of the animal and /
turns Its head toward Mr. Mayo, who will |
shoot it IN the head with his rife
Mr.. Eyarts is knocking down at one blow
one Of the most cherished theories Of physi-
clans by stating that the reason why he has
never been sick day in his life, and, al
though a spare man. he is capable day by day
Of unremiting work, and always able to dine
freely in the evening, and afterward to return
to his writing table, Is that be never takes
and never has taken any physical exrcise
Admiral Porter manages to keep two sec
retaries and his son busy attending to his cor
which is very largo and help
ing him In his literary work Hi workshop
Is large, airy room. the walls Of which are