The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-29
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

William Walter Phelps is said to be worth
! SS,000,0 900, the greater part Of which is in
vested in railroad securities.
Sardou, the French dramatist, started out
as a surgeons assistant and became pro-
fessor of mathematics before he took up play
writing
Gen. Caprivi, Bismarck's successor, is an
! lnveterate smoker. He smokes pipe now
and then, but he usually takes his tobacco In
the form of cigarettes.
When P. T. Barnum was introduced to Sir
! Arthur Sullivan, he remarked: 81 am glad
! to have the opportunity OF meeting you
| You are celebrated. l am notorious"
Jacob Bupp, of Pittsburg, Is certainly one
! of the most enterprising noosenen of the
/ day He has made the ropes with which
/ eighty-eight murderers were hanged within
the last thirty years,
! The inventor, Kinkel, who has designed
Sower that will surpass the Eiffel structure
and viii be erected in London. is a German.
He has been in America for thirty years and
Is resident of Washington.
Rewi is the last survivor of the great fight
! ing chiefs of New Zealand. His defense Of
Orakan against the British troops under Sir
| Duncan Cameron is the most brilliant achieve
ment in the history of Maori wars.
| Jan Hofmeyr, ''the Parnell Of the Dutch, :"
tall and large and speckled, and created,
owned, and made his mark by writing for
The Zurd African, South African paper
| which voiced the sentiment of Dutch Caps
Colony.
It is said that Mr. Parnell was never known
but once to quote poetry in a speech, and
then he got the line wrong: First flower Of
the earth, first jewel Of the sea" Gem,
gem, - said Mr.. Dillon, at mis- elbow. "Oh, jew
els the better word, responded Mr.. Parnell.
It is related of John Rogers, the sculptor,
chat he began life as q clerk in a dry goods
store in Boston, and not until he was 81 years
old, after he had gun locomotive, worked in
a machine shop, and been srVveEoS- did he
produce his first group, the ''Slav&.Aucticn." ="
Mr. Gladstone has always been more scru-
pulous in his attentions to the humber classes
than 70 the nobility and wealthy. Once, when
prime minister, be called personally on a
tradesnan one Sunday morning 10 deliver a
ticket for admission TO the house Of commons,
which had been requested.
Ferdinand de Lesseps leans heavily forward
as be walks, and his hair IS white as Stacked
lime yet he still retains a buoyant flow Of
animal spirits, and his handwriting IS any
thing but shaky. He still affects receptions
with a vengeance and personally conducts a
volummous correspondence. He IS justly
proud of MS thirteen children, d" VINO range
in years from TO -. He IS himself s..
The late Archbishop Heiss, of Lacrosse,
Wis, was a saving man, and would walk
rather than incur expense by riding. Return
ing from wearisome journey, he was met at
the station by a number os priests, They in
sisted that, being tired out, he shoald go home
in & carriage. No, be would not; tbs amount
Of fare could be saved. Then some one re-
minded MIN Of ais heavy satchel. "On, am
sure Brother Bernard this old and tried at
tendane viii take that, &c replied, aud both
walked OF, much 70 the discontinue of the
marty.