The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-17
PERSONAL AND iMPERSONAL.

Among party OF pilgrims VINO ar
rived at the Troitzo-Sorgievski monas-
terry in St Petersburg recently was a
hale and hearty man of one hundred
and thirteen years of age. He had
tramped the whole distance from Luga,
some eighty-five miles, and showed no
WEAKNESS, while many of his more
youthful companions were much dis
tressed by the journey. His age was
properly attested by baptismal papers
he carried with him.
looming through Newark the other
day." said a traveller, 81 saw lying on a
side street a discarded hoopshirt, rusty
and DID, Some years ago this would
have been familiar enough sight al
most anywhere, but had not seen one
before in years, and wondered whether
this could be one of the old ones which
had got into the street here. or whether
it was one of the newer crop already
worn out and thrown AWAY"
Franklin w. Smith, the wealthy
architect of Boston, who is trying to
get congress to make an appropriation
for great national gallery of history
and art. is energetically presenting his
ideas to the San Francisco public just
at present, lecturing on the Importance
of his plan. He proposes to give large
sum himself toward the buildings, and
hopes to induce the ,art-loving people of
the country to give enough more to
complete them.
Daniel Colladon, who has just died
in Switzerland, was the first man to
apply compressed air-to the transmits
sion of force. In 1s41 hel first applied
the results of his observations upon the
properties of liquids, in carrying lumin-
GUS waves projected at their source,
and at the Paris exposition of 1889 the
idea was carried out On a grand scale.
Colladon first lit Geneva with gas in
1912, and in 1862 he was asked to illumi-
nate Naples in the same way.
AT one time a case of very trif1ing
Importance, which had,well nigh run
the gauntlet of legal ad Indication, came
before the supreme court of Vermont.
The counsel for the plaintiff was open
ing with the usual apologies for friv-
olous suit, when the subject matter,
''to-wit, one turkey. of great value"
caught the ear of Judge Chase MIR
Clerk" he called out, inAa an irate tone,
strike that case from the docket. The
does not sit here to determine the own
ership OF a turkey"
The Russian MarshaltSuvaroff was
fond of confusing the men under his
command by asking them unexpected
and absurd questions. One bitter Jan
uary night, he rode up to a sentry and
demanded: How many stars are there
in the skye" The soldier. not whit
disturbed, answered coollV: "IVait a
little and III tell YOU" and he deliber-
ately commenced counting: Zone, two,
three, etc. When he had reached one
hundred, Suvaroff, who was half-froz- |
IN, thought it high time to ride eff, not, |
however, without inquiring the name |
Of the ready reckoner. Next day the |
latter found himself promoted
THE other day said New York |
citizen. Il saw in an uptown ave-
nue. that always pitiful sight, a
drunk. She was not demon
strative. but a little bunch of peo-
Die had already gathered about
Ter. A woman, who was passing, halt
ID and took the drunken woman by
he arm gently, and looked at her with
l kindly, smiling face. With gentle
irmness she led her along the avenue
Ind into the frst- side street. awav
rom the hustle. Thereswas not one in
he little crowd who did not sincerely
aspect the woman who had paused to
lelp another in distress They did not
ollow; they all stood still as she passed
u with her charga.,