The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-26
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PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

Queen Victoria contributed $500 for
the benefit of the widows and orphans
of the brave men lost on the Victoria.
she has an income of about $4,000, coo a
year and could afford a donation with
out feeling pinched
Harvey Albee has been constable
of one township in Illinois for fifty
years He has never had any opposi-
ton at any election, all parties voting
for him. When first chosen he was not
quite twenty-one years OF age.
Col Bob Ingersoll is said to have
more young men friends than any man
in the country. lie says witty things
to young fellows, pats them on the
shoulder and makes companions of
them. Occasionally he will indulge in
a fight of conversational oratory that
fairly captivates his hearers
Mrs. Lizzie II. Perkins, of Bath,
Me-, didn't want lawyers to have any
thing to do with making her will, SO
she drew one to suit herself. Up to
date twentysiX lawyers have had a shy
at it. and the supreme court of that
state is about to take a wrestle with it.
A woman's will is proverbially prob
lematical.
The coming of Mr. Walter Besant
to our shores this summer, that he may
take part in the authors congress at
Chicago, will give pleasure to the host
of readers who welcome every new
novel from Mr.. Besant's pen as if it
were the utterance of personal and
dearly loved friend. Mr.. Besant is not
only the successful man of letters, he is
the successful philanthropist, and in
both characters Americans are devoted
to him.
Andrew Carnegie has rented. be-
sides Cluny castle in Scotland, Craig
dhu house, two miles from the castle,
on the banks of Loeb OWE, near the
rocky recesses where Prince Charlie
took refuge after the battle of Cullo-
den. John Morley once described this
house as an ideal highland residence.
Mr.. Carnegie's coaching party this year
intends visiting the valley of the Wye
and driving through the western coun-
ties of England on their way north.
-Ephrain w. Bull, the origina tor of
the Concord grape, is still living at Con-
cord, Mass. He is s! years old and one
of the prominent men of the historic
town. He was a friend of Emerson
and Alcott and has been greatly hon
ored by distinguished visitors to Con-
cord and by horticulturists at home
and abroad. In his garden in Concord
he still shows the old mother vine of
the Concord grape, which he developed
from the seeds of native wild grape
planted just fifty years ago.
Though the number of people who
read books of sermons with eagerness
akin to that with which a fascinating
novel is devoured is supposed to be
small, yet it is larger than one would
think. Such a book as Primary Con-
victions, by Right Rev. DR.. William
Alexander bishop of Derry and Raphoe,
a book on the evidences Of Christianity,
originally presented before the students
of Columbia college in the form of
lectures, may be described as rare
find by the lay reader The style is
wonderfully magnetic and sympathetic,
the literary illusions indicate broad
and various learning, and the themes
are OF practical interest to every
thoughtful man and woman. DR.. Alex
ander bears striking resemblance in
style and delivery to the lamented
Phillips Brooks