Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-10
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The naharajah of Bankapoor has just mar
ried his forty-sevenrh wife.
The oldest living peer is Lord Teynham,
who has just completed his 9lst year.
Signor Ta,nagno, the noted tenor, used to
| he manufacturer of mineral waters.
DR.. George Macdonald, the novelist. is leo
turing and preaching in the north of England
The shah Of Persia does not speak English
or German, but can carry on conversation in
| French
| Cornell university has a japanese noble
| man, the Vicomte Michama, of Toxic, among
| her students.
The Duke Of Newcastle is expanding nearly
| $3.50 coo in building a church on his grounds
| st Clumber, England
| The Persian minister at Washington is
| learning the English language and getting
! over his homesicsnesS.
| One of tia most eminent Russian composers
V a general of the army, Cesar Cut He has
written several operas.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell has built
'houseboat" in which he viii cruise in Nova
Scotian waters this summer.
Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, says that the talk
about the possibility of Cardinal Gibbons be-
ing elected pope is mere nonsense.
Thomas Delworth, who was once a slave II
the south, is now president of the Builders
Laborers' union at St. Catharine's, Canada
Anton Meucci, Garibaldi's old co1npatriot,
is still living at the old house at Clifton, S. l.,
in which Garibaldi manufactured candles
when in this country.
Jules Ferry is beginning to show his age
An American who saw him recently in Paris
says: He is bent and gray and has aged ten
years in the last two"
The viii of the late Gen. W. S. Harvey is
published. It leaves all his estate, valued at
$50, 900, Internationally to bis wife, and
makes her sole executor.
Ex-Attorney General Garland has allowed
well known artist to hand him down TO
posterity in oil. The likeness is perfect. and
it now adorns the walls in the department of
justice.
Arab Bey, the Egyptian patriot whose
plans were foiled by England, is languishing
in Ceylon. He complains that the climate is
shortening his days and that sickness is tor
turing him.
Edward Burgess, the yacht designer, looks
more like professor Of mathematics than a
practical boatbuIlder He is 10 years old,
member Of an aristocratic Boston family,
and graduate of Harvard.
Hon. William G. Perley, formerly of New
Hampshire, now member of the Dominion
parliament, will present to the city of Ottawa
two Of the Clapp drinking fountains manu-
featured at Concord, n. Il.
The Duke of Portland has decided to de-
vote all his past and future winnings on the
turf TO the erection and endowment of aims
houses for the poor people at Walbeck- The
scheme originated with the duchess
President Garnet OF France is very fond
of Americans, and is cultivating sedulously
the society OF our countrymen now in Paris
At his receptions more Americans are to be
found than in any drawing room in Europe.
Gen. John c. Fremont, the great path
finder and the first Republican candidate for
president of the United States, is now g
years old, but he gets around in a remarka-
bly, active manner and looks good for ten or
fifteen years yet
DR.. Bushong, Of New York, enjoys the val
liable distinction of being the president of
the New \ ork Assembly Of the AgaSsiz asso-
citation, which was founded in 1880 by Pro
fessor Ballard, Of the Lenox academy, for
personal Observers Of nature
Col Olcott is making a tour in japan lect-
uring on Esoteric Buddhism He has been
well received by the Buddhist priesthood,
and is advising the people to maintain the
principles OF the Buddhist faith, and not to
change for western doctrines Of any kind
Muneuitsu Mutsu, japanese minister &c !
the United States, has rented for the summer |
q residence at NJ. Pleasant, q suburb Of !
Washington. He viii entertain his friends /
there and there Is a prospect that his sub /
urban home viii become famous Mutsu /
knows how to Do a host
The Conte de Paris head OF the Bourbon I
family. who recently celebrated bis silver /
wedding, Is 8 worker he rises az $50
O'Clock in summer and at 6o'cIock In the ,
winter, and, lighting his lamps If necessary. /
begins tee labor Of the day. He has little 4
breakfast with his family et O'Clock, then /
he returns to his work