Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Since his recent marriage Meissonier has
neglected his palette.
President Harrison has leased his house in
Indianapolis for three years.
The Rev. Ellis Howell of Marshall, Ills,
has lust married his one-thousandeth couple.
DR.. Nansen, who lately completed an adj
venturous journey across Greenland, Is only
q years old.
Gen. Crook says that Sitting Bull has no
reputation among the Indians as brave, Du1
only as a medicine man.
Samuel Ayres, an Adventist, living in Wor-
cester, Mass, predicts the end Of the world
on the night of Oct z, 1889
Edwin S. Connor an aged actor of Phila-
delphia has acted Richelieu lob times, but
has never seen any one else act 1t.
Ex-Mayor MCGOWAN, of Trenton, who Is
prominently mentioned as a candidate for
governor, began life as newsboy.
Mr.. Gladstone allows all the people in the
neighborhood of Hawarden to freely use his
splendid library of 10000 volumes.
Henry Irving writes to a friend denying
emphatically that he has complained OF un-
fair treatment by the American press
DR. Talmage says he has been deceived and
defrauded by many people, but that no news
paper man ever broke professional faith with
him.
Sims Reeves, the English tenor, is about to
take another farewell of the public. He con-
siders the money thus obtained the cream OF
ta-ta
DR. Oscar Montelius estimates that the
stone age ended about $500 years ago in
Sweden. where it reached very high devel-
opment.
It has been stated that the lamented Father
Damien attributed his leprosy to the inocula-
ton of an abrasion in the scalp through the
agency of flies.
Eighty years ago Tennyson, Darwin, Glad
stone Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar
Allan Poe and Lord Houghton were born;
1909 was great year.
Lord Charles Beresford is authority for
the statement that the guns of the transit
Iantic liner Teutonic could have sunk Mel
sons whole feet in half an hour.
Gustave Dumoutier has constructed veri-
/ table Buddhist temple in Paris, on the Champ
! de Mars. for the use of Annamites and Chi
/ nese who may visit the exposition.
The president Of the French council, M.
| Tirard is a 'Cockney Partisan" Before en-
/ barking in politics be kept jewelers. shop
! imitation jewelry and "Brummagem" clocks.
Philip Grenan, who left the United States
forty years ago, is now at the head Of prob
/ ably the largest stevedore business in Bonn
bav, India, employing no less than 1000
men.
Alexander Mackenzie. ex-premier of Can
ada. is in delicate health. Mr.. Mackenzie was
offered thesdoubtful honor of knighthood ten
Years ago and refused it. He is bricklayer
by trade.
The late Judge Terry took part in the first
battle of Bull Run, fighting in civilians
clothes on the southern side He commanded
an independent body of Texan cavalry later
! in the war.
The late Daniel K. Steward, who is said tc
have been tine wealthlest man in Virginia,
made his money on snuff and tobacco. lie
was a Scotchman and never surrendered hii
allegiance to Great Britain.
Chauncey NJ Depew, who has recently had
an opportunity of making an instantaneous
study of Emperor William, is very much inn
pressed by his militarism. He says that
William looks every inch the emperor.
Robert Ray Hamilton is 81 years old
though he looks younger. He is an agreeable
conversatloualist and a fair public speaker
1t was he that conducted the proceedings
against Capt Cregan in behalf Of Aler
Thorndike Rice, whose close personal FRIEND
he was
Gen. n p Banks has had a varied career
He was ''bobbin boyn in a factory, an actol
fifty years ago, having played Claude Mel
notte in the Lady of Lyons at the old Ma
,ional theatre Boston. Later on he was {
lawyer, and still later general in the army
governor of the state Of Massachusetts,, anc
speaker of the house in the same state.
The late William Thaw, of Pittsburg, Pa.
was a man of extraordinary intelligence, hav
ing a remarkable memory, and discussed th'
affairs of the world at large with rare de
gree of discernment and power Of expression
possessed by but few individuals. HI
dressed plainly, with a noticeable absence q
jewelry, and his generosity was proverblaL
The name of Charles A. Absolom, WHIT
came to death by an untimely accident on tn
steamship Aiurie, is known 10 al cricketers
He was graduated at Oxford at the head o
his class, aud was a man of good birth anc
breeding. In his youth he was the most Ia
nous cricketer in all England His eccea
tricitv was to play without his hat. In Aus
tralia he PLAYED bareheaded under the broil
inc sun, with the mercury at 10 dogs, an
while in the West Indies he slept on decl
hsreheadai in rain and dew.