The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-09
PERSONAL AND lmpERsoNAL

-Ex-Mayor Hewitt says that '.for-
tunes of $4,000, 900 or more are acquired
indeed, but never earned and that
'.the next great social development will
not be il the direction of increased
wealth. but in its distribution upon
principles based on justice and re-
igion.''
1t is likely that Donna Isadora Cousi-
no. the wealthy Chilean bus;ness-won-
an. will visit the worlds fair. She is
known in newspaper literature as the
Countess of Monte CTisto, and is said
to be the richest woman in the world.
receiving vast income from coal mines.
vineyards, race horses and other sources
of revenue.
Mrs. Marion Crawford is daughter
of the late Gen. Berdan, the inventor.
the golden hair and light complexion
of a blonde, but with black eyes In
addition to her accomplishments as
musician and linguist Mrs. Crawford is
said to be as enthusiastic sailor as
her husband
Mary Stuart, of Scotland, was not
beauty. She had cross eyes and. to
save the trouble OF having her hair
dressed, cut it off close to her head and
wore a wig. When. after her death,
the executioner lifted her head to show
it to the people the wig came off and
showed a close-cropped skull covered
with gray hair.
John Varyan, of Indiana, is prob
ably the oldest legislator in the world.
He is in his ninety-first year, but is in
full possession of his bodily and mental
health. He has voted for eighteen
presidential candidates and had the
honor of being the author of the first
law enabling married women in lndi-
ana to hold property and make will.
The keen Norwegian explorer, DR..
Nansen, who is to start on another ex-
petition to the north pole, has been
preparing himself for coming hardships
by sleeping as often as possible during
the winter in tent on his place near
Christiania. Several members of his
expedition have endeavored to harden
themselves by passing the nights in the
open air with only wolf skins as cover
ings
The parish register of Romsey re-
cords that Mai William Cromwell,
cousin of the protector, died of the
plague on the ODD of February, 1865,
and that he caught the infection by
wearing a coat the cloth of which came
from London. 1t adds: ''The tailor
that made the coat, with all his family,
died of the same terrible disorder, as
did not less than four hundred people
in Romsey, all owing to this fatal
coat
The car studies carefully all doc
uments put before him, and is in the
habit of making marginal notes of his
decisions and views. These annota
tions are carefully treasured in the inn
perial archives. where they are accessi-
BILE to the functionaries whom they may
concern. Recently, in the margin OF d
prominent officials report, the ear
wrote: ''Whattan asst The individual
thus characterized by his augu master
was in despair.an begged the secretary
Estate, Po,ovtseff, to bring the matter
before his majesty. May it please
your majesty,'' began Polovtseff, ito
an asst so that they may not forever
be on record in the archives oh
Alexander the Third interrupted. laugh
ingly, 81 quite forgot the archives"
And he took up pen. ran through the
words "What an asst" and wrote in
stead "What a philosopherr'