Wichita eagle., 1889-01-03

s1So, 900 for public baths in that city, but it
is not probable they viii be completed before
next season.
Sydney Bartlett, who was graduated from
Harvard seventy years age and is over 80
years of age, argsed case before the supreme
court Of Massachusetts the other day with
marked success.
| Hsdii Sulyrnan Saba, of Constantinopie,
was 81 years of age when he teolZ his last
wife, and he lived to be 1872. He had sixty
sons and nine daughters, and seven wives,
and survived them all.
Col Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill
! has been raised to the dignity of general Of
/ Nebraska militia He is now Oh his ranch,
and is enjoying himself highly after his
arduous .Wild Vest campaign.
Marshal MacMahon, who has just entered
upon bis 81st year, has been residing for the
past few months at the Chateau de Ia Foret,
| near Orleans, dividing his time between
shooting and working upon his memoirs.
1t is denied that Rev. Alexander Fownes
Luttrel, who died recently at the age Of &c
years, was the Oldest Anglican clerg nan in
England. Archdeacon Philpot is and
Rev Bartholomew Edwards is 80 years of
age.
James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, testiies
to the whistling ability Of Elijah Halford,
the president-elects private secretary. Mr..
Riley SAYS that Mr.. Halford's whistle is low
and beautiful This should end the discus
sion.
Count Won Moltlze has deposited his will
in the Probate court at Berlin It is thus
i'm in 1SnlI ho,,d ic
my last will. 1t is my desire that no seals
be put upon my belongings. Moltke, Field
Marshal
Hadji Hassein Ghouli Khan, Persian am
bassador at Washington, is delighted with
American society. Heentertains handsomely
at his house on NJ street, and his dressing
table is constantly covered with cards OF III
vitation from the most select houses at the
capital
George Augustus Sala, the English jour
nalist, always wears white waistcoat He
says: You can't very well murder when you
have white waistcoat on. By donning that
snowy garment you have, in a manner, given
hostages to responsibility" Perhaps he is
afraid of being mistaken for "Jack, the Rip
per-"
Paulus. the French comic song Singer now
receives S120 a night. a few years ago his
fee was sl25. His song, al Revient," is con-
sidered to have made Gen. Boulanger He
lives in great style with his wife and five
children, and his Paris establishment includes
three or four horses, a secretary and a com
poser.
Prince Won Pless, who is at present achiev-
ing great deal of noUoriety by engaging
himself to various American girls, according
to the cable, is a German nobleman of semi
royal rank, ancient pedigree and large fort
une He is tall, thin, awkward and washed
out in appearance, and he has two whins,
British clothes and American girls.
The Duke of Hamilton's family mausoleum
rivals anything of the kind. 1t cost $780,
600. The tomb is a model of the Castillo di
San Angelo at Rome, and the internal dec
orations are superb, the gates being copy
of the Ghiberti gates at Florence, and the
coffin o. Duke Alexander, who built the
mausoleum, is inciosed in an Egyptian sar-
cophagus Of black MARBLE covered with hie-
roglyphics, which was brought from Alexan-
dria
Congressman Roswell P Flower has added
immensely to his fortune in the past two or
three years. His money has been made
largely in promoting railroad enterprises and
in big stock and bond sales Mr. Flower is
worth $1,000 600 or $1,000, 600 He is Of me-
dunn height end quite stout. He has great
habit Of holding an unlighted cigar in his
mouth, and be does not remove it in CONVEX
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