The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-23
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

DIR. Pierre Emile Mignault and his
wife of Actonvale. Ont, celebrated
their golden wedding the other day,
and had among their guests the bride
maid and groomsman who attended
them at their marriage fifty years ago.
Miss Edith Darlington, author of a
volume on all sorts of animals {includ-
1ng the earwig) entitled Workers With
out Wage, has been asked by the En-
glish Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals to write another
volume. to be pu blishcd officially by the
society.
Santiago Ina bell, who was born in
the Philippine islands ninety-nine
years ago, was married lately in Coat
zacoalcos, Mexico, to { rich and good
looking girl of sixteen. belonging to
one of the first families Of Minatitlan.
The frisky Old lover was baptized a
half hour before the wedding.
Gov. William z. Russell of Massa-
rhusetts was somewhat surprised the
other day to receive. among his mail
pa ckages a cigar sixteen inches long
and two inches in diameter, with al
ancient steel and flint for lighting pur
poses. They came as q present from
the United States consul at Costa Rica.
The sultan of Dioclol1ata is men
toned as probable visitor to the fair.
His lowness is about four feet in what
is commonly called height, but there is
nothing short about his full name,
which is Hamankoewonsenopa tiinga-
iogona b gurrachmansay dinupnotogom
ode. His name is just pr for the com
positor.
Robert buchanan, in {. communica-
ton TO the London Chronicle. remarks:
ut is not for my pen to proclaim what
the hand which holds it has done, but
] could stake my oath that I have fed
more mouths and helped more strug-
Cling comrades than all the socities of
authors put together. | care little for
fame. and less for money"
Sir Samuel Lewis, who has just
been raised by Queen Victoria to the
dignity Of knight of the most dis
tinguished order of St Michael and st.
George" is a full-blooded, coal-bl
negro, who. having taken his degree at
the London university. is now d mem
her of the Legislative council of Sierra
Leone. Ii is the first time that a Brit
ish order of knighthood has ever been
conferred upon an African.
One day on leaving the stage, Au-
gustine Brohan happened to hear two
fellow artists discussing a subject which
seemed to be extremely engrossing.
On questioning them as to the topic of
conversation: I'VE are speaking of the
creation" they said. 81 was not living
at that time" she answered. smiling. |
And then added, with serious face !
'"You had better ask Nine. Allen bout |
it." This lady was one of her rivals
ION the stage.
One of the nota BILE women at pres
ent in Chicago is Sonora Eva Camel, |
who has been commissioned by the |
chamber of commerce of Cuba to make !
a report of the exposition for its use. |
and who is, besides. the Worlds fair !
correspondent of several Spanish and /
South American periodicals. Sonora |
Camel is a novelist and essayist of dis |
tinguished merit. and has the distinc- /
ton of being the first Spanish woman
who has ever edited a political paper,
having esta blished, few wears ago, in |
ty up to the time of her departure from |
Havana for Chicago, La Cotorra, sa-
tirico- political weekly.