Wichita eagle., 1890-02-21
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Senator Cullom Is said owear his'hair and
bard exactly as Lincoln Ad- BE Is supposed
/, to do this to intensity his striking resem-
blance to the martyr preSdsAt.
I Lord Chancellor Halsbury, Of England, is
fond OF mechanics, and spends much of his
leiE1re time in small workshop that he has
erected at his country place nesr Stanmore.
The late Sir William Gull was q years old,
! and one Of the most distinguished and emil
nent physicians In tho world He was made
q baronet in 1872 for his success in treating
the Prince of Wales for typhoid fever in
1871.
| Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is thick SGT
| OF build, broad OF beam and short OF neck.
He has well kept blonde mustache. His
manners are polished, and bis fund Of jolhty
| is as inexhaustible as the Vanderbilts' bank
account.
Chief Justice Corliss, Of North Dakota,
| who enjoys the unique distinction OF being
the youngest chief justice on record, is pro-
foundly broad shouldered man Of angular
build and tawny complexion, with wisp of
dense black hair and salary of 8, coca year.
He is 81 years DID,
The lord mayor cf London is the recipien.
of much curious correspondence. Among the
oldest letters which have reached Sir Henry
lsaacs since his election is one from a gentle
man who proposed, for a modest salary, TO
write all his iordshipS speeches throughout
his public appearances OF the year.
The late Mr. Talbot. father of the English
house Of commons, had been member sixty
years. Hs was very wealthy and extremely
eccentric. He would sometimes go to the
Wild Of Vel iva in
for while. He wes fond Of yachting and
his pennant is known in all parts of the world.
The late emperor of Germany kept up
constant correspondence with the king of tho
Belgians for the twenty years preceding his
death, and these letters formed, it is said,
several most curious and entertaining vol
umes about European current events. They
were all destroyed in the recent fire at the
Laekin palace.
III. Gounod, the famous musical composer,
is a man Of intense religious feeling. As he
has grown older he has become more ascetic
and exclusive in bis habits, until today be
lives almost the life of hermit. He has
great dislike for the frivolities Of Partisan
society, and confines his visiting solely to the
old, aristocratic families of the Faubourg st.
German.
Adam Forepaugh's success was due to thor |
ough application to his business and to shrewd |
business methods. He was kind at heart |
especially SO to animals-rough in exterior, !
fond Of a joke, naughty and brusque to his
employees, except heads of departments, and
he attended to tho smallest details himself. |
When all went we'll he used to go to his bed |
in his private car every night at 10 O'Clock; !
at home this was his invariable hour of re- !
firing.
Bishop Crowther. of Africa, has remark !
able history. When lad on the Benue river |
he was torn from his mothers side by slavers, !
and, after months of misery on the coast, |
was shipped in @ slave ship for America. One
Of the most romantic incidents Of his life was
when, quarter of century after his capt
ure. an old woman rushed from a crowd Of
natives 20 whom he was preaching, threw her
arms around his neck, and he found she was
his mother