The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04

| beard and looks decidedly Teuton1c. He Is
! paralytic, but does great deal of work.
Mr.. George Payne, state coachman to the
! queen, has recently retired after fifty-three
| years spent in the service of her majesty
and previous period in that of William
".
The body of the late Junius S. Morgan,
who died at Monte Carlo and was buried at
Hartford recently, was conveyed from
Monaco to Havre by a special train at a
cost of S, 600
Gen. Caprivi, Bismarck's successor, is a
bachelor who exhibits no fondness for the
fair sex. Heis strikingly handsome man,
and bears strong resemblan to Bismarck
in height and physique.
The author of the Passion Play" NJ de
Harancourt, is marquis of undoubted no
bility. He was one OF the four mobiles of
Lorraine before it was annexed to Ger
many, who were dubbed the 'Quatre Che
YauX."
FraSk Jackson, of Sampsonville, Erie
county, Pa, can place his arms against a
wall and reach feet II inches. He has re-
markably long arms. Jackson is six feet
high. The best reach heretofore on record
is seven feet.
Hiram Powers studio in Florence, where
he worked so long, remains just as he left
it. His widow is still living, a by no means
aged parsonage, and his son, Nicholas
Longworth Powers, is at work in the old
place, doing almost as well as his father.
Ferdinand J. Dreer, of Philadelphia, has
presented to the Historical Society Of Penn
sylvania a collection of 5000 autograph let
ters and reliquary curios. The collection
embraces letters of revolutionary interest
and the signatures of distinguished men
and wemen of the last 100 years.
Gen. Fremont is living on Staten Island
in great retirement. But he is apparently
good for many years yet. His form is erect,
and his eyes have the same flash as when
he crossed the Rockies and wrote those en-
chanting reports which, strictly true as
they are, have all the freshness and vigor
of a romance.
DR.. Hans Won Bulow has written the fol-
lowing sentiment in the visitors book at
the Casino, New York: "There are but two
places III the world where I have found
and realized the dream OF theatrical model
performances, Bayreuth for Wagner's
musical dramas and the Casino for Often
bach's burIeSque operas"
Lord Roseber!hy has become the possessor
of the original drawing of Punch's famous
cartoon, Dropping the Pilot" He is, by
the way, said to be great admirer of two
men, Napoleon Bonaparte and Bismarck.
He disagrees with the methods of both, but
admires their genius immensely, the one as
a soldier and statesman and the other as
statesman.
When N. Saint-Saens disappeared so
mysteriously from Paris recently he went
to Las Palmas, where, under the name Of
DR.. Charles Sannois, he passed himself off
for an Englishman. His identity was at
last suspected because of his musical per-
formances. He ran away thus simply to
get rested and restore his health, and in
this he succeeded.
DR.. William Moon, Of Brighton, Eng
land, the wonderful blind man whose af-
Fiction has been the cause OF incalculable
good to the blind all the world over,
through his promoting the circulation of
books printed in embossed type, was re-
Gently presented with a handsome Ginning
clock, check for 81 ESQ, and a testimo-
NAL The occasion was the fftieth ami
Versary of his work On behalf of the blind.