The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-24
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

William Schaeffer, OF Lnheld, Montgom-
ery county, Pa, has made cane of 1854
pieces.
Senator German has q smooth, boyish
face and the smile of a clergyman. And
yet is 50 years of age.
Ward McAIlister is hard drinker-of
tea. He prides himself most upon his
ability to judge of the quality of teas:
Gen. Booth is tall, stoop shouldered
man, with prominent Roman nose and a
patriarchal white beard. He is 81, and the
father of a large family.
Professor Koch takes horseback ride at
O'Clock every afternoon. This is his only
means of exercise, and by O'Clock he is
back at his work in the hygienic institute.
Ralph Ingalls,, the second son of the SEN
ator. when he finishes his course of study at
the Columbia law school, will go into the
Office of William NJ. Evarts. in New York
city.
Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot, is
passing his old age in the bitterness of pow
erty. He is "a years old, feeble and sad
hearted, and will not long remain un-
| claimed by death.
Russell Sage, the financial magnate, is a
tall built, gaunt, keen eyed, hayseed look
irg man OF nervous manner, with long,
clean shaven face, fringed with scraggy,
iron gray chin beard.
Baron de Hirsch will fit up the mansion
in Paris which he bought over the heads OF
the club that blackballed him, and will
throw it open to any friends who may visit
him in the French capital
NJ. julius Stewart, the American artist,
leads happy life abroad. He spends his
spring on the Riviera, his summer cruising
in his yacht, autumn in his chateau in
Normandy and winter in Paris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Salisbury, of Lac
Qui ParIe, Mimi, are probably the oldest
married couple in the United States. Mr..
Salisbury is 103, his wife l0l, and Jan. II
they will have been married eighty years.
Austin Corbin, the railroad millionaire
and magnate, is a baldheaded, nervous man
of 56, who possesses indomitable energy.
He has been called the dictator of Long
Island. Fifteen years ago he was unheard
Of
Frederic Ives, the former young Napo-
leon of finance, is living quietly in New
York and devoting his attention to the ac-
quiring of another fortune. He is the same
well dressed, suave and self confident char
acter that he was before his fall.
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, who is serv-
ing his second term, was poor boy In
young manhood he made an earnest effort
to rub off the rough corners by hard study,
and through pluck and enterprise laid the
| foundation of future prosperity.
D. A. Tenant, of Norfolk, Va, has lately
been offered 81 500 for watch which has
been in his family 172 years. The offer was
declined On the dial is engraved "Will-
lam Tenant, IT'S" The watch was made
in London, and still keeps good time.
LISTS watch is now owned by musi-
clan named Crosse, who bought it of Solo
mon lsaacs, who bought it Of Mr.. Fried
helm, who received it as a present from
Iiszt, who received it aS present from the
| duke of Saxe-Weimar forty years ago. 1t
is extremely small.
Professor William James, of Harvard,
who is becoming almost as famous out Of
college as in because of his interest in psy-
choogy and in societies for psychological
| research. is a brother of Henry James, Jr,
the novelist The father OF these two IA
nous sons is a preacher.
Justin Mccarthy is gray haired, bushy
bearded, mild hammered little gentleman
of 80 and wears spectscles. He is gifted
| with much energy, which breaks out in
various ways, being at once a politician,
editorial writer. novelist and historian.
He is profoundly courteous.