Wichita eagle., 1889-01-15
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

| Lawrence Barrett was born In Paterson,
/ N. j., fifty years ago Last April
| Emperor William hes forbidden horse rae
ing in Prussia on Sunday and holy days.
Tt is said that Browning wrote ''Lady Ger
aldine's Courtship" in two consecutive hours.
Although nearly 60 years of age, Alphonse
Daudet does not look it by at least ten years.
The only jubilee gift which Emperor Fran
els Joseph accepted was a mosaic image OF
the Virgin from the pope.
In spite Of tempting offers Lord Tennyson
| refuses to write his memoirs. Who says
! Tennyson is not a great mani
Mr. Froude's book on Australia has given
birth to a new word in the assembly house at
Melbourne. tits 'Froudacity."
Judge Charles j. McCurdy, Of Lyme Conn,
| is now the eldest living graduate of Yale. He
was graduated in the class of 1917.
Mr. Gladstone bought over fifty copies of
Mrs Burnett's story, Little Lord Fauntle-
roy,n for presents to his juvenile friends
Mr.. Williamson, who has given $1,000 900
to found a mechanical training school In
PHILADELPHIA, has carried tho same umbrella
for fifteen years
Gladstone usually has three books in read
ing at the same time and changes from one to
the other when his mind has reached the
limit of absorption
Count Won Moltke, while making purchases
for Christmas, was surrounded by wild
and enthusiastic mob Of friends and admirers
in Berlin and cheered until be was obliged to
retreat into cab.
George W. Williams, the negro historian,
has recently returned from Europe laden
with the fruits Of long search through the
libraries Of the Old World for matter per-
tanning to Toussaint rOuverture.
A fine marble bust of David Davis, made
from death mask, is to be presented to the
state Of Illinois by Messrs. Leonard Swett
Robert T. Lincoln and others. It will be
placed In the capitol at Springfield.
Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, although
nearly four score and ten years of age, makes
a trip to the New haven postoffice daily,
never varying a minute in the time Of his
going and passing the city hall just as the
clock strikes o.
Lord Tennyson's LIES work is practically
finished At the age Of 70 he is too feeble to
think of undertaking any other work than
slight revision of his noble poems. Mr..
Browning, who is only three years younger,
is as robust as man of so.
In appearance Osman Digna is a remark
ably fine looking man. He is tail and well
proportional, though somewhat inclined to
be fat He wears a long, black beard, and
the vacant sleeve of his left arm is always
pinned neatly to his Left shoulder.
Gen Boulanger's one idol in life is said to
be bis mother. She was with him in 1859
during the ten months in which he was in
danger from a wound received at Solferino,
and which has never entirely healed He
spends every Sunday afternoon and evening
with her, and if away, always sends her
telegram.
William Henri Washington, French am
bassador IN England, was born in Paris, Of
English parents, and is just 62 years Of age.
He was educated at Rugby and Cambridge,
England, where he was a scholar of Trinity
college, and took very high degree. He
pulled with the Cambridge crew that beat
Oxford in 1919. He has occupied the position
of French ambassador at the Court of st.
james since 1888, andjis true and patriotic
citizen of his adODted country, France.