Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-18
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

| vember.
Thomas Nelson Page, the Virginia author,
is now making tour through Ireland
Mr.. Parnell is troubled With insomnia, but
Is otherwise in better health than usual.
Professor Whitney, of Nele, has been made
an IL D. by the University of Edinburgh.
The German composer, Brahms, has been
gazetted Knight of the Order of Leopold.
Julian Hawthorne says that autographs OF
his father ''are as rare as icicles On the equa-
tor"
Felix, the Partisan dressnaker, says that
| be and Worth divide the world OF fashion be-
| tween them.
The Earl of Zetland has been appointed lord
lieutenant of Ireland in succession to the
Marquis Of Londonderry.
John W. Arnold, of Providence is thought
| to be the Oldest wheelrnan in America He
is rs years old
Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, says that the talk
| about the possibility of Cardinal Gibbons be-
| ing elected pope is mere nonsense"
Jean de Reszke, the tenor, has been suffer-
ing from blood poisoning for some time, in
consequence of bite from q favorite cat.
Lord Londonderry has spent during his
brief viceroyalty in Ireland nearly ESQ, 600 in
excess of his official income and allowances
Dr. Temple, bishop of London, has been in
the habit Of drinking strong tea In quantities
which would have startled even DR.. johnson.
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro recently
had his minister Of public instruction fogged
with birch rods for tampering with the state
archives.
Don Francisco Garcia has lived in Los
Angeles sixty -four years and is now los years
old. His present wife is IS and his youngest
child is years old.
Whenever friend of W. D. Howells mar
ries the novelist always sends as wedding
present copy of ''Their Wedding Journey"
bound in white velvet.
Secretary Ben Tracy finds it hard to tear
himself away from Brooklyn, and very often
leaves Washington to visit his old homo in
the City OF Churches.
A new italian composer is being talked
about in Italy His name is Martucci. He
was born in 1856 and is a director of the con-
servatory at Bologna
Siberian exile is the punishment which the
car has infictedupon his brother, the Grand
Duke Alexis, because of the latter's intrigue
with the Countess de Beanharnais.
Gen Sherman is credited with possessing
the happy faculty Of never telling the same
story twice. He also possesses the equally
happy faculty of telling it well the first time.
Emperor Francis Joseph has ordered that
the house in which his son killed himself be
pulled down, and every effort made to oblit-
+l,,.c Of no md f0
be forgotten.
Martin Irons who at the time of the strike
on the Gould lines five years ago was too ar
rogant to grant General Manager Hoxie an
interview, now earns scanty living from a
little fruit stand in st. Louis
D. K. Pearson, the Chicago millionaire, has
adopted the sensible plan Sf disposing of his
great fortune before his Death. During the
last few years he has given away nearly
$4,000 to educational institutions in the
west
Professor E. B. Andrew, of Cornell, who
has been appointed to the presidency of
Brown university, was gallant soldier dur
ing the war For several years there has
been a strife between Brown and Cornell for
his services.
G. B. Studd, the famous cricketer, who
played for Cambridge university and the
Gentlemen of England and also in this coun-
try, is missionary In China, where he was
seen recently playing his favorite game in
Chinese dress, with pig tail" Neither
hand nor eye had lost its cunning.
Mr.. G. R. Sims author of ''Ostler joe"
"The Lights of London" etc., is receiving
hundreds of sympathetic letters from people
who suppose him to be Identical with the
newspaper reporter, Mr.. Simms, who had a
difficulty with the Duke of Cambridge. The
two are entirely different men, however.