The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-26
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PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAL.

A Chicago Young woman's account
book Is said to have contained the fol-
lowing items: Gloves, 1928; marsh
malloys. 80 cents; dressmaker, s12;
charity. / cent; perfumery, $780," and
the historian adds: ''Some misguided
Young man probably thinks her an
angel whose wings are only folded.
Queen Victoria is not only an author
but an editor also. The Court Circular,
which appears in the London newspa-
pers, is submitted to her majesty, with
a lead pencil, for revision before it goes
out. Either she or some one else finally
supplied the ''k" in the Empress Fred
erick's name a fortnight ago, after it
had been omitted daily for week or so.
While callers are always welcome
90 the Office of the Kidder (Mo.) Optic,
the editor makes the following service
remark in recent issue of his paper:
''We want it distinctly understood that
this Office is not place for glddy
young girls or loafers. The two young
ladies % who invaded our sanctum last
Friday afternoon are kindly requested
TO never repeat the visit until they
KNOW now TO DendVe.
Kate Field has a new idea. ''In
view of the fact that it costs more to
bury and eulogize dead congressman
than to pay living one for the two
full years of his term" she says, II
think that all candidates should sub
NIT to medical examination before be-
ing allowed to run for congress, and
30 oh no
granted them on exactly the same basis
that reputable insurance company
would take risks on their lives
The ceremonies and festivities in
connection with the recent marriage at
Cairo of Mahmud Pasha Riaz, governor
of the Suez canal, to the daughter of
the late RaaSam PaSha lasted one week.
More than four thousand guests were
invited to the wedding. Many dinners
In both the Arabian and European style
were served, requiring the services of
seventy cooks and one hundred walters.
The marriage was one of the most bril-
liant celebrated in Cairo in many years.
The late Bishop Phillips Brooks de-
MED a great many of the good stories
that were told of him, but one whis-
pered around among the clergy lacked
the bishops denial He was to confirm
class in highly ritualistic parish,
and the rector, an old friend of the
bishops and well acquainted with the
latter's broad church views. wrote to
say that as there might be some feat
lures of the service which Bishop
Brooks would disapprove and such
would be omitted if he would be kind
enough to indicate them. The bishops
reply to this communication is said to
have been a note which ran about thus:
s'Vicar -: Turn it all on"
"A Brooklyn man was recently heard
In serious argument for the annexation
of New York to Brooklyn. ''You
needn't laugh" said he, lust wait
twenty years. We've got the best stu
alton and the best air. and we're nearer
to Coney island. Besides, we've got
room to grow, while you fellows have
got to go up to Yonkers or some of
those places if you want to get your
toes on to New York-mileS further
from the ccnterS of business than we
are. Look at the manufactures we've
got already ana, proDably you uon I
know that our ocean commerce is
greater than yours, but it is. You
haven't even got room for such docks
as our Erie Basin, nor any place to put
such big storehouSeS as ours. Look at
our views and shade trees, and look at
our shops. Besides, you can get good
nights sleep in Brooklyn" and a
good sleep in The daytime, too" added
one of the unconverted.