The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-03
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Young Mr.. Aston Is tai, lean and xzziA-
be young fellow, COED natusd to H
markab3e degree.
Charley johnson, Of Amber township,
Mason county, Mich, is only 6 years old
and yet ne weighs $40 pounds.
It is said of Senator German that he is 50
cool, nervy and self possessed that it is inn
possible TO surprise Or disecnceze him
The Marquis of Lorne IS writing novel
called From Shadow TO Sunlight" with
an American girl whom be once met for
heroine.
B. F. Stearne, of Lynchbarg, Va, has
in his possession a curiously carved violin,
said to have been once the property of
Thomas Jefferson.
Du Maurier, the artist. whose society
pictures have long been the charm OF The
London Punch, makes his OWN wife and
her sister models OF his studies.
Bismarck is said to have sent large
quantity of his papers to England for safe
keeping against any possible swoop upon
them by toe German government.
John e. Parsons, the lawyer OF the sugar
trust. looks much as Ralph Waldo Emer-
son looked when he YVES 80 years old. He
is tall. astenuated and stoop shouldered.
Frank Higgins, who married Ida Lewis
Watson, the Massachusetts, poetess OF pas
sion, has changed his name to Pienerue, in
order to secure fortune left by an Irish
uncle.
Professor Tyndafl Is an Irishman by
birth, and his early schooling was OF the
most unpretentious kind, his parents being
in the humblest circumstances. He IS now
about 70 years Of age.
James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of
The New York Herald, is a naval veteran.
He was lieutenant and commanded his
| own yacht, which was AIMED and commits
stoned as vessel of the United States navy.
| Rev. DR.. Beach, of Cambridge, runs to
| fires for the good he may be able TO do by
way of assisting the unfortunate He has
been known also to stand at the brakes
with the firemen and help ''jerk her down
| lively"
| Elias Howe, Jr. who was worth 81 ,0O0, 900,
i was the richest private who served in the
war He enlisted in Bridgeport, Conn. in
| 1852. At one time, when supplies were low,
| ne pdlO the UWC uQOutAS Puy VI VIC CA1Si .
| company.
Phillips Brooks is So years old, and for
twenty years he has been the rector OF
Trinity church, in Boston. His salary is
$4,000 a year, but of that large proper
ton goes for charity, for his generosity is
proverbial.
Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, is a big
man physically and has full voice and a
deliberate, imposing style of speech that is
very effective. At times bis voice fills the
senate chamber with its reverberations and
again it falls to loud whisper.
Cardinal Manning, the great English
prelate, is 50 years old. His face is thin
and bloodless, his eyes sunken, and the
wrinkled skin is colorless. His kindly blue
eyes twinkle merrily and a pleasant smile
occasionally relieves his ascetic look.
Congressman-elect Page has presented
the Maryland state museum with petri
fed oyster, which weighs three pounds anc
nine ounces, and is seven inches long, sever
inches wide and two inches thick. 1t wa:
recently picked up by one of the dredgers-
The late Duke of Bedford was very muci
of hermit. He rarely went abroad, ant
not one in a thousand of his tenants hat
ever seen him. His income exceeded 81 ,00
day, and every morning he awoke to fine
himself richer than he was the day before