The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-24

with excellent Judgment, it seems to
me. discarded his title and does business
under a plain, everyday doctors sign,
which he finds sufficiently awe-inspiring
for all practical purposes AS, indeed,
who of US does not?
rode not long since on Reading
railroad train in the pleasant company
Of one of the managers and was sur
prised to hear the conductor say In all
seriousness that tiie locomotive fireman
on the very engine that drew us was no
less person than Count Grabowskl, a
stalwart Pole, who was, il anything,
sensitive about publicity regarding has
title, or had, at least, grown SO heartily
80 despise 1t as to prefer to be known
as plain Grabowski, fireman, at your
service. On inquiry learned that the
man was an excellent workman, put on
no friIls, did his turn with the rest and
saved his wages. What an example
was that for our imported counts, SO
many Of whom insist upon feeding upon
pie and fried chicken three or four times
a dav in the intervals of their dining
room duties in summer hotels!
Count Grottkoffsli is merchant
in business in this city, and in good
standing. DE is dealer in hides, and
does business under the plain but not
insignificant name of Grottkoffsln. But
he is, / am informed, genuine count.
Count Valeourt De Vermont was for a
long time writer on the Courier des
Flats Unis, and has had his name pub
lished as an author on several title
pages. Count William Won Bernsdorf
was the title given some evenings ago
as belonging to an intelligent and ener-
retic writer now in this city doing
daily tasks in journalism In one Of
the great riding schools near Central
park Count MensdorR has been popu-
lar instructor, and is much admired for
the firmness of his seat and the suavity
of his manner.
The last time 1 went from Milwaukee
to Chicago the Parlor-car conductor, in
strict confidence, called my attention
to the fact that one of the walters IN
the dining car was genuine, dyed-ln-
the-wool. Russian nobleman. The
pompadour appearance of his wool"
when my eyes first lighted on this dis
tinguished foreigner, seemed to give
ocular demonstration of his patent to
nobility. The whole country appears
to be spotted, or, might say, glorifed,
by counts, who for the time permit
themselves to be counted. as it were,
among us. Count Percy n. Duboeay, Of
Talulah Falls, S. D., is professional
gentleman whose name is now and then
mentioned in the newspaper dispatches
from those parts as standing IN high
repute among the Dakotans. Think he
is a doctor, and the third count doctor
who has come to my knowledge lately
is Count Olazago, medical practtion-
er in Newark Count Won Baller-
strom has long filed high position
among bootblacks of San Francisco
where, believe, his title has been duly
investigated and authenticated. Count
Koenig conducted the second violin in
an orchestra at Atlantic City last
season with much eclat, and not so very
long ago Count Won Syffert was an APP
plicant for position on the police
force of Philadelphia. Among the
army of the unemployed in New York
city Count George Orschutz, of Austria,
was named at the same time. l seize
this opportunity of paying my respects
to these gentlemen and of assuring
them that the cursOry mention l have
made here of their names is not in
tended as any reflection on their titles.
Some of our mobiles in business here
nbouts have shown themselves exceed
ingly sensitive on this score Witness
Baron Blanc, in his. litofuge factory;
Marquis LAMA, in his health re-
storative company on South Fifth
avenue, and Baron Lindemann,
waiter in Philadelphia hotel
AN INTERESTING RELIC.
l came into possession the other day
of a very interesting curio. An &C
quaintance who has been engaged for
some time as a contractor on a new
branch railway up in the northwestern
part of the state found two dusty skel-
etons while making an excavation on
the east side OF Seneca lake, near
! Geneva. It was evident from the state
of decay that the skeletons were very
! old. With each of them was found
a small bronze medal. On the
main side of the medal which was given
rae there is a bas-reiief bust circled with
/ the inscription William Duke of Cum
| berland, British Hero" together with
the date of that wOrthy's birth. Will
! liam, according to this counterfeit pre-
sentiment, seems to have been a portly,
/ pudding-faced gentleman who wore a
white wig neatly done up with ribbon.
! On the diverse side of this medal. which
! is little larger than the English pen
ny, is a representation of a man on a
( horse, with drawn sword, making II
| very unpleasant for three or four imita-
! ton men on the ground, who seem to
I be unarmed. Encircling this is the in
scription: Rebellion Justly Rewarded. j
! Upon it is the date of 1745. Above the
| date is the simple statement: AT Car
/ isle" The superstition is that this
medal was struck to commemorate the
/ campaign of the duke of Cumberland
! against Charles Stuart, the pretender
which terminated in the battle of Col
loden. in 1875. The medal has a hole
through the top of 1t, and was evident
I " worn by the soldier who possessed
it as a decoration. have not had time
yet to inquire into the possible bust
ness which brought the wearers o
/ these British medals to the neighbor
hood of Seneca lake, but they probably
belonged to some detachment of Brit
ism troops operating in that section
during the French and British trouble
antecedent. TO our revolutionary war
which occurred thirty years after til