The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-02

Deacon" White, formerly crack pitche,
of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, wears
eyeglasses, and is the only professional
baseball player who does
Ernest c. Richardson, the new librarian
at Princeton college, is young man in his
thirties. He is mentioned as practical
man, and an accomplished and agreeable
one.
General Manager Beck, of the Illinois
Central railroad, was once train hand,
and he can still turn switch or couple
freight cars with an experiences acquired
only by long practice.
Mr.. Ganson Depew, nephew of Chauncey
N. Depew, is mentioned as one Of the
''rising men" of Buffalo. He is said to
have marked talent and is member of an
eminent law firm in that city.
In his dining room in Berkeley square,
London, Lord Rosebery has given the place
of honor to portrait Of George Washing
ton. 1t is said to be one of the only two
genuine portraits now existing, painted
from life.
Cardinal Lavigerie has an extensive ac-
quaintance with modern literature, es-
pecially history and polenics, though he is
known to the world more as a man of
affairs than an eloquent preacher and
student.
Charles Delmonico, the proprietor of the
most famous restaurant in the world. is a
handsome man with a small mustache
He is one of the busiest men in New York
city and attends rigidly to the affairs of his
big restaurants.
The late British Admiral, John Ross
Ward, organized the working department
of the National Lifeboat Institution, and
during his thirty-one years of service as
general inspector of lifeboats that institu-
ton saved more than 10000 lives.
Joseph P Hazard, wealthy spiritualist
of South Kingston, r. l., has contracted
for the erection of a huge tower eleven sto-
nes high at Tower Hill, near Narragansett
Pier 1t will be dedicated to the advent of
modern spiritualism. The cost will be
$4,000.
Mr. Asger Hamerik, the director Of the
Peabody Conservatory of Music, Balti-
more, who has recently been knighted by
the Danish king, was born in Copenhagen
in 1643, and was a student under Gade,
Berlioz and DR.. Won Bulow. He has held
his present place since 1871.
Senator Wolcott is said to make $50, 600 a
year by his law practice. but is very care
less of money, and consequently liberal In
the west he has the reputation OF a
"plunger," and it is certain he will play
for high stakes, not with the hope of gain,
but for the love of excitement.
Sig. Arrigo, the Italian banker recently
ransomed from Sicilian banditti for the
round sum Of $25, 900 in gold, says that his
captors kept him in the bottom Of a dry
well, where they furnished him regularly
with food. At the end of a certain time,
unless ransomed, he was to be killed.
The late Ezra Farnsworth, of Boston, is
reported to have given away $4,000 year.
He was kind to young men, and more than
one successful business man in Boston to-
day owes his start to the $1,000 or IS, 900
which Deacon Farnsworth loaned him az
low rate of interest, upon no security save
his personal note.
The late Robert Gladstone, brother of
the British statesman, was perhaps the
most noted man in Liverpool in his day,
for be was very Interesting character. He
made IL strict pracCice TO VlSlC the uSh
market every day of his life and bargain
with the fishwives He was a terrible bag
gler about price, but he did it for fun, and
it is well known that in the end he used
pay dear for his joke.
On his way back to France Eyrsud, the
French stranger, asked for kniie TO cut
his finger nails. The officers in charge
feared that he contemplated suicide and
refused to give him one, whereupon he
said: IF l wished 10 commit suicide /
could readily force my hands between my
ribs and make away with myself" He
was soon alter mal2cled TO prevent him
from doing this