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

Mr. Gladstone declares himself to weixh
1853 pounds
The pope has full set of pearly white teeth
well preserved A
Whenever Edison appears at the Paris ex-
position the band plays Yankee Doodle"
Mr.. Selah Chamberlain, Of Cleveland. gave
his beautiful niece $40. 0OG as a wedding pres
emit
President Carnot's habit of talking in q
loud voice is taid to De due TO bis wife's deaf
ness
DR.. Nanse., the Arctic explorer, is engaged
to be married to Miss Eva Sars, a well known
Norwegian singer.
John Templeton, Of Adams county, Pa, IS
years of age, has a jackknife that be has car
ried since he was Is years old
Samuel Crook, of Williams college, has
won one of the Golden club silver medals for
proficiency in political economy.
ON Joseph Dugniol, e1-president Of W K
Vanderbilt's Kitchen is the title New York
paper gives to Mr.. Vanderbilts ex-cook
The Marquis Ginari, of Florence, has
bought the island of Monte Cristo, made so
celebrated through Dumas great novel
George W Childs owns many Of the pa
pers OF Andrew johnson. Among them is
the account book which be kept when he was
a tailor
Henry E. Abbey's running expenses in his
new ventures for this season, no. to mention
his new theatre in Boston. will be about sIO,-
600 per day
Mr. Henry NJ Flagler is going to add to
the Injuries OF his Florida winter hotels
mighty baseball ground, with special surgical
and medical facilities for urnpires.
David n. Blakely, a graduate of Dartmouth
college in the class of 80, has received the
appointment of instructor in English of the
American college at AintaO, Turkey
DR.. Washington, the late dean of Dur
ham, was great epicure and one OF the oest
judges of wine in Europe After his death
In 1869 his cellar realized very large sum.
DR.. George f. Shrady, of New York,
spends most of his spare time at his farm ON
the Hudson river near Kingston, WI ere he
trims trees and looks after herd of Jersey
and Holstein cattle.
Professor Armenius Vambery, the Hun
garian traveller, is a short, thick set man,
with face worn and frame bent with travel
and exposure, slightly lame, with keen, dark
eyes, a frank manner and perfect command
of English.
Secretary of State Salisbury, of Delaware,
is a striking man in appearance, nearly SIX
{ feet in height with sharp, piercing eyes and
q manner which Is sxtremely attractive He
has just issued new volume of Delaware's
laws, the eighteenth since the state was
founded.
Vice President Morton's new nome in
Washington contains thirty-two eIouisitely
decorated rooms The suite of rooms on the
first floor far exceeds in beauty the White
House parlors There is large new dining
hail, which will be used as ballroom on state
occasions.
'Gen." Booth, in opening a new Salvation
hall in Liverpool defied any one to point out
any authorized doing of the Salvation Army
not justified from the Bible They had 2.700
societies and 900 officers, for the most part
!self supported, and the annual income was
snot less than s4,O0O,O00
Mr.. George Gilbert Anne Murray, who has
been chosen 20 succeed Professor Jebb in the
Greek chair at Glasgow university, is young
Oxford fellow of only "a He is an ardent
Home Ruler and Liberal, non -smoker, q
total abstainer and in his undergraduate
days was frequent speaker at the Oxford
union.
DR.. Seward Webb, one Of the Vanderbilt
sons-in-law, who recently started with his
family for an $4,000 mile pleasure trip, trav-
eled with every luxury and convenience in
his train of four saloon cars The nursery
car was not only stocked with toys for the
children, but had swings, rocking horses and
other juvenile toys, and the bath room tank
held 500 gallons of hot and cold water