Wichita eagle., 1889-11-27
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Carnegie viii spend $3.50, 900 on his pubic
library at Pittsburg.
Chauncey NJ Depew carries life insurance
amounting to $500, ool
Ex-QReen Isabella of Spain recently won
sl,eo0 francs on horse race.
Historian Bancroft says that he feels as
well as be did sixty years ago.
Edison is Il theossphist end has grown
fiesaY and his hair Is whitening
The Hra. Hannibal Hamlip has done a
g1 eat loG of partridge shooting this year.
Jay Goald holds SO, 400 600 of the $50 coo,
O0Oof capital stock OF the Western Union
james Russell Lowell saws that he is going
20 spa nd the remainder of his life in America.
HERMAN Schurig, the German sculptor,
cas CON 10 the United States to make bust
Of Edison.
FriedriAh Spielhagen, the most popular
German no velist recently celebrated his 10th
birthday.
Vice President Merton will receive a rental
of 10000 a year fol"his new apartment house
in Washington.
Oscar S. Strauss. ex-ministsr 20 Turkey,
makes hobby Of collecting and dtudying
books on American history
II cost Andrew Carnegie about $4,000, to
allow hds men to attend Superintendent onee'
funeral by shnEttdng down day
Edwin Everett Hale says that when he waS
in college he and his chum took the first
daguerreotype ever made in Boston.
ii. Nantet reached the Paris exposition
after a seven~dayS journey from Brussels in
a phaeton drawn ny pair of dogs.
Brayton Ives, of Wall street, has perhaps
the finest and most valuable collection of old
manuscripts, missals and rare books in the
United States.
Robert j. Buriette, the professional humor-
Isl, has been acting pastor of the Lower
Merton Baptist church, Philadelphia, during
the last summer.
DIR. Talmage estimates the net loss to his
church from the recent fire at about S3S, Oo0.
The total insurance on the building and con-
tents was sl29,450.
Mr. Gladstone has found a rival in Cardinal
Manning, who SINCE the London dock strike,
has been called by his admirers "The grand
est ol0 man OF CUR tlnaes."
Edwin Booth is an enthusiastic whist
player He plays scientifically, and nothing
pleases him more than to have a good rubber
with three other good players.
The late Wilkie Collins never passed a day
without taking up one of the Waveriy nov
els He had a very warm admiration for the
genius of the elder Dumas and of Bskac, but
especially the former.
Marshal Won Moltke is one OF the most
venerable veterans livang in a double sense
a GOV OF 10 years. and ON The Goth of Novem-
Der he entered upon the 9ebh year of his age
Gen. Grenfell, the hero of the last Egyp-
tan campaign, given a glorious recep-
ton at the hands OF his fellow townsmen Of
Swansea, in Wales, recently, on his return
to his native city. The freedom of the city
was presented TO him with imposing ceremo-
MES.
Gen. Boulanger has been compelled TO con
fine his diet TO fruit and cereals. He is al
lowed to drink milk but is vigorously denied
wine. His complexion is very pale ana he
looks far from well He is now obliged 30
pay more attention 10 his own constitution
than 10 that of France.
Professor Todd, OF Amherst who has
charge OF the expedition to ST. Paul de Loan
da, on the west coast of Africa, TO view the
eclipse, has planned a system OF pneumatic
valves, to be operated by electricity, by
which the Photographic apparatus may lie
operated automatically during the period Of
total eclipse.
Sir Frederick Young, who is over 20 years
OF age, has returned to London after a re-
markaoe journey. During his sojoorn ia
South Africa he has visited the kalfrs in
their kTaals- passed fortnight in the bush
without entering a house, interviewed Mr.
Paul Kruger, completely traversed the
Trsnsvaal and Travelled altogether just Ia
900 miles