Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11

Cassius n. Clay, who is now in his 18TH
year lives e retired life on his estate near
Richmond, KY.
The present Earl of Granville's father was
famous for having lost $3.50 at whist in a
single sitting.
Bowling takes up all the spare time OF
Senator Reagan Of Texas, according to a
Washington correspondent.
At 90 years Of age Ex-Governor Berry, OF
New Hampshire, is in vigorous health and
goes out walking or driving almost every
day.
Emperor Francis Joseph feels compelled to
state, for the information of the reading pub
lie, that the cheapest cigar he smokes costs
five cents.
The sultan of Turkey, who is most tickle
man regarding his fads. has become inter-
ested in typewriting and is practicing the
art sedulously.
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, who visited
Philadelphia some years ago, has for years
been the morganatic husband of the Rus
sian poet, Ionkofiki
Rider Haggard's friends complain that,
while he received only $3.50 for the origina!
edition of king Solomon's Mines" the pub
fishers have made $50, 900 out of the book.
Mr. Lik, who is in charge of the Corean
legation at Washington, hos disappointed
lovers Of the picturesque by adopting the
hats, trousers and coats of an American.
The Rev. Henry White, of the Savoy
chapel, London, states that out of 1000
couples which he assisted to join together
only one pair had found marriage failure.
Soon after the young emperor's departure
from Rome his holiness was heard to speak
Of him as "a very odious fellow" and to say,
"He is bad son, and he will be bad ruler"
Professor Freudenthal, of Breslau, is in
great luck The Berlin Academy of Science
has given him 500 marks to enable him to
study the philosophy OF the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth centuries in England
At a recent sale of autographs, held at the
Hotel Druot in Paris, a letter from Henry
" to Gabriel d'Estrees, dated 1898, and
closing with the ardent phrase, 81 kiss you
hundred thousand times" brought SEQ
francs.
Speaking of Hadji Hassein Ghouli Khan, a
Washington correspondent says: "The Per-
sian minister is in rather disconsolate mood
He knows no language but his own, and there
is but one person in Washington who can
speak Persian"
There are more than twenty Russian
princes who are entitled to be styled grand
dukes. There are five Grand Dukes Nicholas,
three Grand Dukes Michael and two Grand
Dukes Alexis, Sergius, George, Alexander
and Constantine.
The Grand Duke Paul of Russia, youngest
brother of the car, has made public his in
tention Of presenting dots to a hundred young
women of Athens to celebrate his betrothal
to the Princess Alexandra of Greece. The
Athenian girls are inclined to think that
Paul is Russian matters.
Church and stage were brought into closer
communion when Bishop Carl Sass won the
prize for dramatic works established by
wealthy Hungarian, by his tragedy in verse,
''The Death of Attila." The play will be
brought out at the National theatre of Buda
Pesth this winter.
Robert Garrett, Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, is a remarkable man in some re-
spects, when viewed from a tailor's stand
point. He has always had an irresistible
love for sack coats of the pepper and salt or
dark gray pattern. He must have had
seventy or a hundred suits OF them in his
wardrobe
Consul General Russell, Of Liverpool, has
been calling upon President Cleveland at the
White House Russell was the first appointee
of the consular service under the present ad-
1t is said that Mr.. Russell and
Waller will go into business to-
gether in London at the expiration of their
terms of office.