The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-08
PERSONAL AND iMPeRSCNAL.

/ "A New York oyster-house keeper
has discovered in little neck clam a
pearl, for which he has already been
offered good price.
! "A MoseIem PA farmer grew, il is
said, an Irish potato. the stalk of which
| was feet inches in height and bore
at it's roots bUshel OF potatoes.
There is female leper in Philadel-
phia Her identity is kept a secret, but
she is said to be of good family. The
seclusion which she must enter will be
for all her life.
In her maidenhood Mrs Cleveland
wit and beauty were not unimportant,f for
even before she entered Wells college
at church fair in Buffalo she received
the prize for being the prettiest and
wittiest girl at the fair
An English health officer recently
received the following note from one of
the residents of his district: Dear sir,
beg to tell YOU that my child aged
eight months is suffering of measles as
required by act of parliament"
"A London lady is in search of an
owner for a silver thimble which she
declares she found imbedded in the
center of a ham which she was slicing.
She would also like to have some ex-
PLANTATION of how the thimble got there.
Charles Brigham, of the Boston
post office, is one of the oldest men in
the postal service in the United States.
He was appointed by Nathaniel Green
H.
there ever since, a period of fifty-four
years.
The due de Morny, distinguished
as an amateur photographer. has given
to the French war Office a process by
which paper of any kind or thickness
can receive a Photographic print
Eighty impressions can be made in a
minute at trifing expense Soldiers
certificates of service and character will
bear the owners portrait.
when l first went into the show
business" said wealthy retired circus
man. lone of my chief attractions was
pair of giraffes. Giraffes were nov
city in those days, and these proved to
be great card; but before l had them
a ulOHbil JlCy "CTC DOGu IfhCH Will
sore throats. Do you realize what it
means for giraffe to have sore throat?
It pretty nearly bankrupted me 70 pro-
vide for their cure"
John Horne Tooke had strong re-
pugnance to rnatrimony. He once ad-
vised a friend who was about to marry
TO obtain from relia5 bic sources every
y a. 20 H. s.ka fasg
antecedents, theIt the only allowable
course was TO provide himself with
feet horse, to be- ready saddled and
bridled on the wedding day, and to ride
away from the church as swiftly as
possible before the ceremony took
place.
"A head-msster of Harrow had a way
little Ooys whom he invited to break
fast You know, little boys have pc
culiar habit of becoming inconvenient-
" glued to chair The hospita Die
head" would quietly go up TO the
youngster-who was perhaps in the
middle OF another muffin-and say very
gently and with paternsl kindness:
And must You really go7' The little
boy invariably went.
In recent reminiscent paper Mrs.
Duncan Stewart writes of Disraeli:
After Lady Besconsfeld died, we
drifted apart. he and (, and though /
saw him sometimes il was never in the
old intimate way. The last time we
nett was at Lady Stanhope's-I had
good talk with him, though 1t was
not until we were parting that l said;
4 hope you are quite well?' and ! shall
never forget the hollow voice in which
he answered: Nobody is quite WE'LL