The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-12
personal GOSSIP.

Oscar Wilde, 50 it Is reported, wears 3 fam
nel shirt embroidered with flowers.
Baldwin, the baIloonist. has made go, 600
by his parachute descents In England.
The Duke of Fife is one of the incorporar
tors of the British South African company.
The venerable Professor Sir Richard Owen
has entered his Seth year in excellent health
DIR. Brown-Sequard is not, as is supposed,
an out and out Frenchman, but is the son Of
a PhiladeIphian.
Owen K Studebacker. the well known
brewer Of San Francisco, wants to be COVER
nor Of California.
Mr.. D. c. French, the sculptor, has com
pleted his model for the Stafr-King monu-
ment at San Francisco.
4 16-year-oId boy, professor Franken-
stein, yields the baton at the concerts of the
West Side park in Chicago.
Ferdinand Guzman, the most famous ban
dit In Spain, is a dwarf, who at one time
kept small store in Granada.
Hon. Samuel s. Cox is said to be the only
living man In public life who voted for the
admission Of Oregon as state Feb IA, 1852
Thomas A Edison rarely sleeps more than
four hours a day. He says that when he
sleeps eight hours he feels badly when he
wakes up.
Senator J. P. Jones, of Nevada, and D. O.
Mills, of New York, own gold mines in Alas
ka which are said to yield net profit OF
81, 800 a day.
The leading tenor of today, Tamagno, Is
about 40 years of age, and originally assisted
his father In the manufacture OF mineral
waters In Turin.
Ronald Mcdonald, son of the distinguished
English writer, George Mcdonald, he's been
appointed head master Of Ravenscroft school,
at Asheville, N. c.
Cen Gordon's cook has turned up alive at
Assorean, having come into the English
lines from the Mahdi's camp. he has bios
somed into doctor.
The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale says
that when he was a college student he and
his chum took the first daguerreotype picture
ever made in Boston.
ivan Stepanoff, Of Tobolsk, Siberia, was at
one time governor of one Of the Siberian
provinces He is about 5 feet inches in
height and weighs $50 pounds.
Ex-Congressman William L Scott hes &C
quired another large tract OF coal lands, and
is said to be the largest owner Of this species
OF property IN Western Pennsylvania
Dr.. Charles G.. Eames, Of New York city,
owns an old stone house in Berkshire county,
Mass, and close by 1t Is the Teritable black
smith shop Of Elihu Burritt. the Iinguist.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania. deter
mined when he assumed his present Office to
visit every county In the Keystone state.
He has just completed his task by his visit to
Pike county.
According to Mr.. Ruskin,s recent criticism,
there Is no genius about the English LAM
guaRe He defines the Welsh language as
the language Of music, the Scotch Of poetry
and the Irish Of wit
The pope recently gave Archbishop Corri-
gan. Of New York city. two of bis jubilee
presents-a chaifce and acibQ9iun-both Of
which are Of gold, while the chaliceis studded
with amethysts and rubieA
W. T. Anderson, of Warwick, n. Y, has
curious history. Ie was e gIrs OF lEIliianl
". king of England, 70 Kamehameha Il,
king OF the Sandwich Islandz
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that IA re-
viewing his life he hnds that he has taken
mora interest In surgery than IN poetry, but
he realizes that his tame win rest upon the
efforts Of his pen, not Of his knifs.
The next candidate for literary honors Of
the historicosupernatu school Is said to Be
son Of Sir Edwin Arnold, Er. =. L Arnold.
His story Is entitled ssThe Wonderful Adj
ventures Of Phra. the Phunician-n
John Huntington and his son, W. 7. b
Huntington. OF Cl9FekAnQ, own TWO OF Tie
best watches in the world They are dupli-
Gates and were ordered by the senior Hunt
ington in 1881 IN Geneva, Switzerland.
Tennyson has a horror Of the bicgrepEler-
| He keeps no diary and has destroyed his cor
respondence and al records Of It. He Is re-
ported to have said to friend recently:
ssWhen ana dead I win take good care they
shan not rip ms up like a pig
Fire Bianarcks special medical attend
o6ess Schwenfnger, who cured the
q .eIIor of his too pronounced tendency "a
sto6tness, Is, By particular desire CT the sal
| tan, abcuk to instruct two Turkish phyn-
clans Ia his special method Of treatment.
/ Mr.. Gladstons bad been acquainted witt
/ his futura wife for i've years before they
were married Their first meeting took
| place IN 1884. at the house In Tilney street,
i Park lane. Of Mr.. Mines Gezkell, who was
an intima4s friend Of Mr.. G1adstons at Elton
and Oxford
Mr. Laurence Hutton has hit upon nove
idea for decoration IN his study. The friezs
( that runs around the room p made CT ths
| death uasaks CT diskiilg uLEhed men and women.
The eject Is striking. and not unsuggestiyt
1 Of tia famous room III Huebeards castle.
Sir Edward yTatkin proposes, 4 ever b
gets his Channel tunnel cut through and
that's 8 Big, big ito run trains direct from
Lcnscn 70 Gzbra1tar, transfer cars b boat
4 - T,aneisr. ana tEseucs along she north e1ast
IL Afrsca. through Ezypt. dorm The FszsiaE