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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH.

NJ. Bonnat, the painter, has been elected
president of the Society Of French Artists.
The German author Won Mollhausen.
now the imperial librarian of Germany,
was once employed as a common Iaborer
on farm in Illinois.
Ibsen is reported to have uttered the fol-
lowing when asked if he should visit Amer
lea some time: American That frog pond
where every frog pokes his head above the
surface and croaks at some other frog! Not
much"
DR.. Edward Eggleston says that he is
tired of being regarded as a woOlly west
ern dialectician. Yet the book that made
his fame, the ''Hoosier Schoolmaster," is
still selling at the rate of 5000 copies a
year after having been twenty-one years
In print.
The old English painter and water col
orist, Sir John Gilbert, will give a collec-
ton Of his sketches, studies and drawings
made up from his life work to the Royal
academy. They are now finely bound in
volumes and established in a mahogany
case at Burlington House, where the exhi-
billions of the Royal academy are held.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16

and at o'clock he is always in the 'T1nnd
of Nod" He does not rise until O'Clock
His breakfast is very simple meal, con
sisting only of a slice Of bread and cup of
goats milk.
After breakfast his mother takes him
for stroll about the grounds. Then comes
a sunbath IN a room set apart especially
for the purpose. His majesty's dinner hour
Is not an aristocratic one. He dimes at noon.
and eats either broiled chicken or mutton
with bread and milk His desert consists
of little fruit. The afternoon is spent in
sleeping. driving and reading, or rather in
having stories read TO him. He sups at 6
3ut is allowed TO take nothing but milk
and toast. He isnever allowed to eat fried
food of any kind.
Alfonso is a wild little boy, although his
health has always been rather poor. He
takes great pleasure in playing FRANKS
upon the staid nobIemen whom he sees on
state occasions. 1t is feared by many that
he will never live to be a man, but it is
claimed on the other hand that he has de-
veloped during the last year robustness
for which his mother had not even dared
10 hone
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financially and enjoys fair share Of
wealth, has been twice married and has
six daughters and two sons living.
There is a dry Yankee wit or pungent
Scotch humOr, or both combined, about
the old gentleman's talk which makes
his "reminiscences unusually interesting,
and it is worth noting that he considers
the present time as good as any he has
known. This is not apt to be the case
with che aged, but perhaps success and
good health have something to do
with it.
That the builder of the first steam
ship, with 800 horse power, should live
to the era of the great Cunarders, Etru-
ria and Umbria, with their $500 regis
tered and 1900 indicated horse power,
or that the old type founder should live
to see New York city's northern border
advance eight miles, are indeed striking
illustrations of the progress of the age
and country Along with this, it must
be admitted, has come an enormous
growth of poverty and other evils from
which young society and new country
are comparatively free. And again it is
pleasure to record that benevolence has
grown equally fast, and that Just now
there is almost a mania among the
wealthy for 'endowing" some charitable
institution.
Among the thousands one may be
selected for his oddly, namely, Ezra
Bostwick, who is known in Michigan as
Union Cty's mildly eccentric philan-
thropist." He was born in Onondaga
county, n. Y, in 1926, went to Michigan
at an early age. got big tract of land,
held on to it, worked hard and therefore
became rich. A few years ago he took
notice that testamentary endowments
were often disputed, and concluded to do
his giving while he lived; so he gave
$50, 900 in property to Albion college,
and a few years later added $500 in
cash. He gave the Methodists of Union
City fine parsonage and $4,000, and
scattered near 500. 900 otherwise,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
Trance and Snnin.

The diplomatic negotiations between
Germany and Spain have lately seemed to
look toward the cOnsumm&tioI of reciproc-
fly treaties which should shut France out
from any commercial relations with the
Castilian monarchy. 1t is supposed that
such a result would have been very pleas
ing to the Queen Regent Christina and the
Spanish premier, Senior Castillo. But it
could not be worked safely France is the
best customer that Spain has, and though
in time Germany might have stood in
somewhat the same relation. it was danger
GUS 70 exchange a certainty for a mere pos
sibility. The Spanish premier has there
fore instructed his minister in Paris to say
that Spain desired TO bring about an IN
Outstanding with France either through a
definite commercial treaty or by a tempo
rary agreement. or course France will
promptly and cordially accept these over
lures, and Germany, for the present at
least, will have TO abandon the effort to
connect spain commercially with the cen
tral powers
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
FIN, FEATHER AND FUR.

Small singing birds live from eight 70
eighteen years
The large, prominent eyes Of the bril-
liant dragon flies are each furnished with
=, 90 polished lenses
Cattle fishes Of several species. big and
little. are sold in many OF the markets Of
the world, particularly in China and
Japan. They are much eaten IN Chilli
Seals when basking place one Of their
number On guard 70 give the alarm in case
OF danger. The signal is a quick clap OF
the Gippers on a rock. Rabbits signal with
their fore paws and have regular signals
and calls
No hovneai tortoise Tow exists, but fos-
81 specimen WAS found awhile ago on Lord
HCwe'> island, II the southern Pacific.
which had four noras on is crest and ~
sem0.ee! "a cross between a horned toad and
a Swapping turtle
The Introduction o. The German trout
into this country proves 20 be ve-y success
f'll They g-ox rapidly aud a,.Ain Zraat
size o1e -as recently e21zhz wh.ch
weighed - pounds saa MS -. inches
long The S1z4wn Was p.aaied IN Jss4
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
POWDER AND BALL

The United States has since it's existence
formally declared war but once.
The British are using Crease's antifoul-
ing paint on the bottoms of a number Of
their torpedo boats.
In future each soldier of the Belgian
army will carry on his person a small hone
disk, which will contain his name, birth
place and reg mental number so that the
holder can be readily identified in case Of
accident or death.
The irst ingOt of nickel steel 10 be used
for the manufacture of srmor for the
United States navy was cast IN mold
weighing fifty-six tons The ingot weighed
10000 pounds This srmor plate will be
used on the Maine
German military papers publish alarm
ing statistics as to the spread Of drunken
ness in the German army. In Saxony the
consumption of spirits has somewhat dim
inished, but the diminution is more than
made up by the drinking of beer
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He knows nothing whatever Of sci
ence and has a nomenclature of his
own. One class of fossils he calls ''stone
potatoes" another giants thigh bones"
etc. Yet he has made a very valuable
collection. Personally he is curiosity.
The children of the vicinity call him
Santa Claus" on account of his i'm
mense eyebrows. bushv hair and long
beard. His relics are soon to be sold, as
he is getting too old to work and has
not laid up much cash. and many of the
articles are of great value.
Another old man with an interesting
story is James Goudie, who lives at
Evanston. lis. He is eighty-three years
old, and he and his wife celebrated their
golden wedding nine years ago. He did
many good things when in his prime,
but his great claim to distinction is that
he built the first vessel which crossed
the Atlantic entirely by steam. 1t is
true the Savannah in 1919 used steam,
but only IN calm weather and as an aux
illary TO sails. and though its voyage
across the ocean is recorded as that of
steamship, the engine was on deck
and operated rude wheels which were
taken up in time of storm.
The Royal William was the first yes
sci TO cross the Atlantic with steam only.
and that was from Pictou. Nova Scotia,
TO GraveSend in the autumn of 1888.
She was soon after sold to the Spanish
government for $4,000 and her name
changed 10 ISABEL Segunda isabella IL.
and after four years IN the Spanish serv.
ice her machinery was transferred and
the old hulk discarded. Her engines
were of S00-horSe power, with two walk
ing beams. operating side wheels. and
she was constructed by Ny. Goudie for
a Canadian firm. The gentleman was
born in Quebec. and was practically
reared in the shipvarl OF his father. 1Ir.
John Goudie. Il Sco1chman. The father
and his partner built most of the British
vessels for the lakes during the war Of
ISl2-l5
Ar the age OF sixteen the son went to
Greenock, Scotland, and after several
years in the saipyards there returned TO
Canada and began 10 build on his own
account. lie has huilt at least lG0 yes
sells, large and small. the last ore he
managed from mast 70 keelsou beng the
anna Nchinzie. "a. Montreal. in 1913.
in 1872 he located in Chicago. where he
has four sons sui two daughters. He
has received many hoEors u the way ct
medals, diplomas and the Ike, ami the
Literary and Historical society. II One
Dec. published full account Of MS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
FLOWER AND TREE.

There is gigantic redwood tree in Cali
fornia with a carraigeway cut through its
trunk.
The tallest oak on the British Isles II
called the Dukes Walking Stick. Ii In
higher than the spire of Westminster sb-
bey.
Some flowers. fortunately few in num-
Der. have livid red color resembling that
of dead meat, by which land by their IN
pleasant odorj they attract the attention
of flesh flies
Perhaps every one does not know how
easily fresh apple blossoms can be had in,
winter Get the ends OF branches with
plump flower buds and place them in water
in a warm. sunny window. and they will
soon bloom
The oldest rosebush in the world is at
Hildersheim. in Hanover. Ii was planted
more than .oO0 years ago by Chariemagne
in cosnmemoration q a visit made 70 him
By the ambassador OF the Csliph Harm
al-Rashid The bush is now d feet high
aud covers z feet Of the wall The stem II
Co.. two inches IN diameter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
e'S - <sm
SIttllt Joy ss5I)le
SPANS CHILD KING.
The Latest Information About the Young
est Monarch in the World.

The Latest Information About the Young
est Monarch in the World.
Alfonso XIII, the child king of Spain, is
now six years of age, and is much like other
children in size, general appearance and
conduct He is a willful little fellow, and
when his mind is once set upon thing it
is difficult TO sverve hir1. He has been
cared for with more tenderness than is
usually bestowed upon heirs apparent for
the reason that his health has not been par
ticularly good, and if he should die there
would come that most abhorrent Of all
things political TO Spaniards-a woman
ruler.
Alfonso XIII is we'll provided with names.
His full -cognomen is Alfonso Leon Maria
Francesca Ps.scuaL He is a godson Of
Pope Leo XII. Little six-year-old tot that
be is, he il nevertheless gereraiissimo of
the army and grand master of the numer-
GUS Spanish military orders. The little
king has had most of the experiences com
mon to Children including All adventure
which at the time created no end of alarm
He was playing with his two sisters in the
nursery. The girls got tired of amusing
the baby and Uncerenoniously left him.
That yoUngster crewled into a cupboard to
hide and succeeded admirably. for the door
slammed, and having latch on the out
side the kim of spain was ANONYMOUSLY
cooped mp. lie did not seem 10 mind it
much, however, for wltSh some member of
she half distracted royal household, hear
ing a noise, opened the cupboard, the little
fellow kicke1 aud crowed as if proud Of
his achievement
1t is related OF Alfonso XII that in re-
Spouse to Il request 10 desist from eating
with his finge-s coupled with the informa-
ton that king, ID not do so, he replied
with great Independence, or what would
have been called impertinence in an ordi-
nary child, Well. this king does" and he
kept on doing it TOO
The habits OF iiie Of the youthful mon
arch are regular. He sleeps in a gilt bed
stead, which is pushed beside his mothers,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
London now has electric fire engines

London now has electric fire engines
Under the new reciprocity treaties with
the British West Indies and Salvador,
American electrical supplies and apparatus
are to be admitted free of duty.
Mount Washington is to be capped with
the largest electric search light ever made,
and the highest beam of artificial light in
the world. Under proper conditions, il is
claimed that it can be seen from Boston.
Electric roads cost less than cable or
horse car roads. The average cost of the
electric roads mile. including equipment
and roadway, is Si6, 697, while the horse car
and cable roads cost. respectively, 81 1897
and $3.50, 800.
In the coming Crystal Palace Electrical
exhibition, upon the payment of a small
fee persons will be able to listen through
the telephone to the music performed at
theatres in London, birmingham, Manches-
ter and Liverpool
By means of currents alternating with
very high frequency Professor Nikola Tesla
has succeeded in passing by induction
through the glass of a lamp energy suf
ficient 10 keep Il filament in a stefe of in
candescence without the use of c Meeting
wires.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
Natural tsaz.

The Engineering aud AIi-5is Journal h
authority fog tnr statemcAy that. while
nere has beGn temporary increase "a the
flow Of Hs5dtfal ga IN tut Penny vnnia
fields during the past few usaths, the out
put Of tie Indiana and nor, lsTestCrn Ohio
fields hss continued - deere S~s a. an alarm.
ing rate Iris snid that not more than one
tenth Of the factors- in the latter district
are now usiug nafTx al gas and 30 uncer-
Tain has the supply become that many pr
yate families arv returning 10 the use -
wood and coal for fuei From present in
Gics4tiorrs the western Pcnp~yivaufa fields
will outlast these Of Ohio and Indiana
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wanna, has gained the reputation OF being
the best dressed man IN congress.
Ex-senator Edmunds is said to accept
no smaller retainer than 8, 600 in cases Of
importance" and to refuse all other kinds
OF cases
Francis NJ. Dale, colored man, took
oath in Judge Broaddus' court in Kansas
City that he was 10 years old and had
fought under Washington in the Revolu-
tiouary war.
Another gentleman has been discovered
who is almost personal facsimile of Mr..
Blaine 1t is the father of Thomas A Edi-
SON who at IS is tall, straight and digni-
fed gentleman.
Colonel John R. Fellows strikingly 70
sembles, both in face and figure, Walter
Davidge, the Washington lawyer who con-
duSed the prosecution of Guiteau. Presi-
dent Garfield's assassin.
Worth, the great Paris man milliner,
works almost as indUstriously now as he
did in the days before he had made his
reputation He reaches his desk at o
and rarely leaves it before 4.
Judge Botkin, the Kansas jurist, whose
life has been threatened, is a dead shot AID
holds court with his rife within easy
reach. He is said TO unerringly pick a
ten cent piece off fence at a hundred
yards.
Signor Manfred has just made tre-
mendous reputation for himself at the bar
of Naples in a criminal case. He spoke
for four days, five or SIX hours day, and
at the close received such an ovation as no
barrister in Italy ever had before.
Senator Gibson, of Maryland, whose per
sonai good looks and gastronomic abilities
have oftener been alluded to than his other
good qualities, is bridegroom, having
married recently Mrs. Hallyday, of Rich
mond, the sister Of Mrs. John Randolph
Tucker.
Henry Labouchere says: Personally I
do not feel the slightest loyalty toward The
royal family; indeed. do not understand
the meaning of the term royal family
Ny loyalty to the queen is feeling of re-
spect for the visible emblem of the laws
that we ourselves have made"
Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi is ro-
bust built, keen eyed man of middling
height, with a brad. high forehead and
tetsely trimmed iron gray beard and is
nine and fifty. He is Louisianian by
birth and entered the navy as midshipman
when only fourteen years old.
For thirty years the beard and mustache
of Mr.. James Brown, of Bennington, W.
Va, have been untrimmed. With his arms
extended he stretches fully six feet from
tip to tip of his fingers, yet the ends of his
mustache, when held horizontally, extend
beyond his fingers. He braids his wonder
full 7rd and mustache and tucks them
under his vest.
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It gained gr,

humor is added by the fact that ma
iority Of them are noted for accomplish
ing something quite out Of the line they
originally prescribed for themselves. OF
aged Americans Of considerable fame a
few notable instances are here presented:
"Old Nick is the every day title of a
citizen of Dyer, Ind, who has acquired
peculiar sort of reputation simply by
indulging fad" For his own amuse-
ment he collected curioS for forty years
and time has made his collection of i'm
mense value. His name is Nick Schutze,
and he was noted in the German army
of half a century ago as the Hussar who
rode over Prince Wilhelm, afterward
the famous Emperor William, when the
latter carelessly got in the way Of a GER
tain evolution. When called to account
he pointed out that the prince was with
in the line marked out for the cavalry
movement and so Hussar had no right
to know him from any other intruder.
There was no gainsaying the fact, and
he was not on y acquitted but rewarded
for strict obedience.
Soon after he obtained his discharge,
emigrated and settled in Lake county,
Ind, while there was still great deal
of swamp and wilderness, while wolves
were still abundant and unreliable
Indians fingered on an adjacent reserva-
ton. His strength and endurance made
him a noted man. He got his homestead
paid for and thereafter devoted all his
leisure time and spare cash to collecting
curiosities. If an old Indian mound was
opened or bed of fossils laid bare by
freshet's washing away the bank, ''Old
Nick" was soon there. He has gathered
Indian arrow heads, stone tomahawks,
pipes and wampum; fossils of every age
represented in the local geology, wolf
scalps, deer antlers, flint and quaItzite
ornaments, old copper relics and no end
of pottery, pestles and mortars.
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THEY MADE RECORDS
FOUR PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE
SOMETHING" WORTH NOTING.

The CvSjo GnsT>.~to- Wig Rode Down the
Crown Prince-Builder of the First
Ocean Steam er-Bruce, the Type
Founder-Biichigan's Philanthropist.
copyright, 1892. by American Press Associa-
tion.l
1t is just little discouraging to ambi
tious youth to look over the roll of the
worlds heroes and see how many Of
them became famous by accident Nc;
that isn't the phrase exactly. They
started in TO do some one thing that lay
near their hearts. and without intending
it gained great honor. And a tinge Of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
MASCULINE MENTION.

Electric experiments are Lord Sails
bury hobby-
Senator Brice. - Ohio wears his hair IN
almost the facsimile Of a carry auburn
wi-
The smaIlezc Master Z4son ia the world
IS Roh~rv Il Huzza. q brooklyn, who =
Iairty-th-ee inches high
Senator Hlscock and Nj 7 z Rosscls.
OF he Ariislgaoa hossl z Washington. are
enough a. slse - tze - r.
Representative BINGHAM o1 Peuzsyl-
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lily, On the leaves Of which SIT birds made
OF the same precious stones Another ex-
perslve present was a large rose made OF
diamonds, and perhaps the most striking
gift WAS a pair of bracelets made entirely
OF precious stones, the only gold used in
Their manufacture being in the joints and
iaStenlugS. But the testimonials Lady
Olivia values most are those from the
humble people. by whom she is so univcr~
sally beloved She viii be known here
after as Lady Bsntiuck. She is twenty
two years OF age and her husband is si1
years her senior.
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The Power Of Beauty.

The power of beauty and character was
foncibly illustrated recently when Lady
Olivia Taylour was married at St. Mar
Earet's, Westminster, England, to Lord
Henry Cayendish BenDnck When the
couple, during the engagement, drove
through one Of the most Radical towns,
where the feeling against nobility is very
strong, Lady Olivia was cheered Justify.
Her marriage was made especially note
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He is extremely human in his feel
ings. and enjoyed the notoriety very
much till begging letters began to load
his mail. He found then that he had
"called spirits from the Vastly deep" in
deed. and swore BY Gearge" This only
OATH that hereafter he would keep his
transactions secret It is said that he
takes a pride in owning some real estate
in every state of the Union.
J. II. BEADLE.
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worthy by the
magnificent trih-
utes To her great
popularity, which
came IN the form
of wedding pres
ents. One Of the
IN ost beautiful
gifts was a true
lovers knot. made
OF diamonds fash
toned into the
form Of ostrich
feathers, on one
END Of which was
"A Gi.D,Dvi water
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services ana inventions. yet he mas ao.

services anu Inventions, yet ne mas &C
cumulated rery little wealth.
Seven vea- 5 older than the aged ship
builder ami s5illGa good health and with
a clear brain Is Dir. Robert Bruce, the
famous type founder. He, too, is Of
Scotch parentage. but he was born at 40
Dey street. New York, on Feb. 6, 1902.
Forty years ago the Bruce Type Mold"
was the great boon to the trade He
now lives at 1872 South Fourth street,
Brooklyn, but in his schoolboy days his
range was from Sloat Lane, the locality
of which cannot now be made out, TO
Little Green street, which ran diagonal
ly from Maiden Lane to Nassau street,
New York.
One who looks on the solid blocks of
that locality today can hardly believe
that in 1S10-11 there were but few
scattered cottages there and an old
comb taught for years. The next school
house 10 the west was the domain of the
noted or notorious John Ruggles, whose
stern countenance and timber cane are
remembered only by few of the very
oldest. He whaled young Robert Bruce
SO fearfully that the boy swore revenge
and trained his muscles to whip the
teacher, but just before he got old
enough the new regime for teachers set
in, and Ruggles journeyed south and
died.
When Robert went to work in the
type foundry an expert could cast ff-
teen type a minute. In 1910 he COM
pleted his first machine and sold the
patent for handsome sum. In 1916 he
perfected the second, the one now in use,
by which workman can turn out 40
type per minute. He has done well
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HAVEGREAT WEALTH
REMARKABLE LUCK OF A MIDDLE
AGED MAN AND A LITTLE GIRL
The Former Has Been . Mffl4onafre for
Years, but Only Knew 1t the Other
Day-Olive Trowbridge's Vast Fortune
Derived from Her Aunt.

George William Northedge was IN his
little room at $3.50 State street, Chicago
the other morning, making up his work
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