The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-20
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Edgar Allan Poe, the captain of the Prince
Ton football eleven, is a very effective preach
er as well as good athlate.
The most skillful arrateur bull fighter in
Mexico is the son-in-laW of the president Of
the republic. He is a man Of great wealth.
Baron de la Grange, French nobleman,
has ordered a lot OF American corncob pipes
to be sent as present 20 the Comte Jean de
Kergorlay, n Rue Matgnon, Paris.
Sigror Succi, the Italian scientist, has come
to the front again with his discovery of a
liquid the use of which enables man to go
an unlimited length of time.witheut food.
1t is said Of the late Edwin Cewles that by
peculiar physical defect he never heard the
Kissing sound of the human voice, and, so far
as he was concerned, there vas no letter S in
the alphabet
Marshal MacMahon twice president of the
French republic, sent his hearty congratula-
tions to the young Due d'0rleans upon the
step he had taken in going TO France in def
ance Of the law.
The present head of the Shelley family in
England is Sir Edward, nephew or the poet
He is widower, 60 years Of age. and until he
settled down, in 1868, led life Of wild ad-
venture in all parts OF the world
Speaker Reed has received aslenst one novel
by every mail since it became known that he
is fond Of light literature. Duplicate copies
Of the same work have sometimes reached
him from the author and publisher.
Pope Leo uses gold pen for his correspond
ence, but his signatures are always attached
with quill from the wing of dove or stormy
petrol, opinion is divided as to which. This
pen has been in use by the pope for forty
years, and is kept by him in case Of ivory.
Young Abraham Lincoln while abroad
once wrote to friend ia Chicago: 81 am en-
joying myself here, and have had good
time in England and France since 1 left
home; but there is no place like America for
me- long for a game Of baseball with the
boys"
Edwin Booth severely rebuked two sentt-
mental Baltimore girls who became so fasci-
mated with him as a stage Iago SIS to call
upon him, under assumed names, at his hotel
He advised them never to run after an actor
again and to be more careful of their good
names.
Panabokke Samastaw awirama Karunatilaka
Abhayawardhana Bhuwanasekra Jayasun-
dara Mudlyanselage Tikiri Banda Ratemahat-
Haeya is the name of a Cingalese gentleman
who has been appointed by Queen Victoria
to a seat in the legislative council Of the
Island of Ceylon.
George " was more uneducated than a
7-year-old boy ought to be, but because of his
grand and suave manners was pronounced
''the gentleman of Europe" He was in heart
and soul a thorough snob. Thackeray de-
scribed him as "a waistcoat, an under waist
coat, another underwaistcoat, and then moth
ing"
When the Duke of Aosta returned from
Spain III 1873, his wife, in his presence, pre-
sented to the Philippine fathers white silk
mantle, in which she had wrapped her new
born infant during the journey, and desired
that it should he used for some sacred pur-
pose. 1--WE will use it TO carry over the
Host" said one of the friars. "Yes," said
the Duke of Aosta, ''and you will use it when
you bring the Viaticum to me-" The sacred
baldaquin was made, but never used.