Wichita eagle., 1889-09-12
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

NIL shirt embroidered with flowers.
Baldwin, the balloonist. has made $50. 900
by his parachute descents in England.
The Duke Of Fife is one of the incorpora-
tors of the British South African company.
The venerable Professor4Sir Richard Owen
has entered his Seth year in excellent health.
DIR. BrownSequard is not, as is. supposed,
an out and out Frenchman, but is the SON of
Phiadelphian.
Owen <. 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 Starr-king monu-
ment at San Francisco
A 16-year-old boy, Professor" Franken-
stein, wields the baton at the concerts OF the
West Side park in Chicago.
Ferdinand Guzman, the most famous BAN
dit in Spain, is dwarf, who at one time
kept a 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, 1859.
Thomas A Edison rarely sleeps more than
four rours a day. He says that when he
sleeps eight hours he feels badly when he
wakes up.
Senator ]. 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 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, has been
appointed head master Of Ravenscroft school,
at Asheville, n. c.
Gen. Gordon's cook has turned UP alive at
Assorean, having come into the English
lines from the Mahdfs camp He has bios
somed into a doctor.
The Rev. DIR. Edward Everett Hale says
that when he was a college student be 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 8 inches in
height and weighs $50 pounds.
Ex-Congressman William L. Scott has ac-
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 it is the veritable black
smith shop of Elihu Burritt, the linguist.
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 Ian
guage. He defines the Welsh language as
the language of masic, the Scotch of poetry
and the Irish of wit,
The pope recently gave Archbishop Corri-
gan, of New York city, two of his jubilee
presents-a chalice and a ciborium-both Of
which are of gold, while the chalice is studded
with amethysts and rubies.
". T. Anderson, of Warwick, n. Y, has
in his possession flntlock musket which has
a curious history. It was gift of William
", king of England, to Kamehaneha II,
king of the Sandwich Islands.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in re-
viewing his life he finds that he has taken
more interest in surgery than in poetry, but
he realizes that his fame will rest upon the
efforts of his pen, not of his knife.
The next candidate for literary honors Of
the neutrality-suspicious. school is said to be
q son of Sir Edwin Arnold, Mr.. E. l.. Arnold
His story is entitled 1.-THE Wonderful Adj
ventures of Phra, the Ph9nician."
John Huntington and his son, ". T. r.
Huntington, Of Cleveland, own two Of the
best watches in the world They are dupl-
Gates and We're ordered by the senior Hunt
ington in 1881 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tennyson has a horror of the biographer
He keeps no diary and has destroyed his cor
respondence and all records of it. He is re-
ported 10 have said to a friend recently:
''When l am dead | will take good care they
shall not rip me up like pig"
Prince Bismarck's special medical attend
ant, Professor Schweninger, who cured tho
chancellor of his too pronounced tendency to
stoutness, is, by particular desire Of the sui
tan, about to instruct two Turkish physi-
clans III his special method of treatment
Mr.. Gladstone had been acquainted witt
his future wife for five years before they
were ueii lSb LllctLlIS tOOh
place in 1884 at the house in Tilney street,
Park lane, of Mr.. Mines Gaskel, who was
an intimate friend Of Mr.. Gladstone at Eton
and Oxford
Mr. Laurence Hutton has hit upon a novel
idea for decoration in his study. The frieze
that runs around the room is made of the
death masks of distinguished men and women.
The effect is striking, and not unsuggestive
of the famous room in Bluebeard's castle,
Sir Edward Watkin proposes, if ever he
gets his Channel tunnel cut through-and
that's big, big ito run trains direct from
London To Gibraltar, transfer cars by boat
to Tangier, and thence along the north coast
of Africa, through Egypt down the Persian
gulf TO kurrachee, and so on to Calcutta,