Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-08-02
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.

One of the most famous short dis
lance runners in England Is Sir Charles
Ross, ninth baronet Of that house, who
Is student at Elton.
Washington Dodge, q printer who
helped to get out the first issue Of the
New York Tribune fifty years ago is
still employed upon that paper.
The books Of the late Samuel j.
Tilden show that he expended in all be-
tween 100000 and 5000, 900 on Grey
stone, his summer residence on the Hud.
son.
John T. Wood, who died in London
the other day at the age of seventy, was
the principal authority on the architect
ural work of the Asiatic Greeks. He
made the excavations of the Temple OF
Diana at Ephesus and restored much Of
details.
During the summer holidays of each
year the immensely wealthy Duke of
Westminster takes in about $1,000 in
sixpences and shillings, paid by sight
seers for admission to his country seat,
Eaton Hall. He gives every penny Of
1t to charitable institutions.
"A clever French diplomat was asked
the other day what he thought Of EN-
peror Wilhelm. The answer was: HE
has como to the throne twenty years too
soon. He is well-informed, and under
stands what he has learned, but he
fancies that his emotions are thoughts"
1t is claimed that among the fifty
six children born to Brigham Young
nearly every profession and calling Is
represented by the "boys" Several Of
the latter graduated from the Annapolis
Naval School, and ono of them IL Q
Colonel in the United States army.
-Alva II. Walker, brother of DR..
Mary Walker and we'll known charac-
ter, died day or two since at his resi-
dence at Bunker Hill, Oswego Town, in
the fifty-sixth year of his age. The re-
lations between the doctor and her
brother had been strained for number
of years, each accusing the other of be-
ing eccentric.
Stanley, who Is Welshman by
birth, United States citizen by afilia-
ton and an African by exploration, has
as temptations to become an English
man handsome, clever and wealthy
fiance, public subscription, Knight
hood and much honor from all men.
Less than this would surely have
changed even the famous ''ruler of the |
Queens navee. Montreal Gazette.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the American
whistler, first discovered her remarka-
BILE facility In whistling by attempting
to teach favorite bird to improve its |
voice.. A friend presented Mrs. Shaw
with brilliant specimen of the mock
ing-blrd which sometimes mad curious
periods of utter silence. To awaken
her pet from its lethargy, Mrs Shaw
would whistle by its cage for hours.
From this incessant practice her whist
ling assumed firm and sustained form.
AT Myersdale, Somerset County,
PH., there is family hard to match.
Edward Deal, the father, is ninety years
old, reads without glasses and lsbors at
his trade, that of miller. The mother
Is several years his junior, reads with
out glasses and can pass any of her girls
on the road. The sixteen children were
all born and reared on farm in Somerset
County. The sons have all mastered
the trade Of the father, but four of them
ire engaged in milling. Tho eldest
member Of the family was eighteen
years of age when the youngest was
born, so stthst time there were eighteen
places at the table daily without corn
oary
in contest between a sufferer and