Wichita eagle., 1889-04-12
9ai1Y = eagle
a GRIST OF GOSSIP.

PRINCE BISMARCK sleeps ten hours day,
but heis the widest awake man In Europe
the other fourteen.
Mrs. KUKI the wife of the japanese min
lister at Washington, is said TO speak "the
prettiest sort Of crazy-Quilt English"
THERE is not cross-eyed baseball player
in the - atry. It is a general superstition
that - ss-eyed man would irretrievably
hoo-doo the game.
Mrs. DR.. SCHLIEMANN won the love of her
husband when she was girl OF eighteen.
She talked Greek to him, and he replied with
passages from Ovid.
Dr. E. N CoLT recently lost $4,000 in
Wall street. Now he is in an insane asylum,
and imagines that he is Jay Gould's partner
and worth S50,00O,000.
IT'S said that every year Worth, the
Partisan dress-maker, allows each Of his
lady employees choose a dress and have it
made up according to her own taste
GENERAL BoULANGER recently sent his
autograph to a Chicago collector thus:
General Boulanger, a simple soldier in the
French army and friend Of the Ameri-
cans"
Ex-Governor MERRILL, of Iowa, who went
TO California less than two years ago, is
said to be several times a millionaire al
ready, his land and mining speculations
having all been successful.
The home of the late W. ". Corcoran at
Washington Is now deserted save by the
care-takers. The servants have been dis
missed, and the members of the family
have scattered themselves far and wide.
CAROLINE HERscHEL, the discoverer of
eight comets, and the accomplished partner
of her brothers astronomical labors, never
could remember the multiplication table,
ard always had to carry copy of it about
with her.
DR.. MoRELL MACKENZIE is friendly to re-
porters, in which respect, as well as in
others, he differs from his colleague, DR..
Bergman, who, when recently approached
by would-be interviewer, said, abruptly:
NGet outi or FL have you arrestedp'
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was sixty-nine
years Of age on the 2d, Washington's birth
day. In recent letter he says: II had the
misfortune to be born on the 22d, and thus to
be brought into competition once year with
the most august figure in our history"
THERE are but two original portraits Of
Edgar Allen Poe in New York City. One is
an oil painting of the poet in his better days,
and hangs in the gallery of the Historical
Society; the other is small water color of
him in after life, with mind and body nearly
wrecked, and belongs to a private collec-
ton.
PEOPLE who keep posted on such things
say that Mary Anderson has at last lost her
heart to a big German student in Heidel-
berg, who has mus tache that he can lie in
double bowknot at the back Of his neck,
and who has fourteen scars on his aqUiline
nose, as result Of a score of duels-stu-
dents duels.
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD has been telling
English audiences what he thinks of this
country. The only cheap luxuries that he
discovered were oysters and ice. What
most displeased him was American town
nomenclature, and ''Griggsvilhe,' Briggs
ville," and the like set his teeth on edge.
Mr.. Arnold has good taste.
! Mr.. AND Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt are
said to have been frightened out of their
Bavarian castle by ghosts. They had leased
the royal house for several months, but
only remained in it two nights. Their rest
was disturbed by peculiar noises that could
not be accounted for, the lease was given
up, and the disturbed couple returned to
Paris.