The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-07
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.

-Kossuth bears the burden of his
venerable years impatiently. To many
other observations of like character
he added recently in connection with
his Goth birthday: For me, the par
iah without a home, the Preachers
words are full of significance when
he says that for the son of man the day
of his death is better than the day of
his birth.
-Mavroyeni Bey, the Turkish minis
ter, is great favorite in Washington
society. Being unmarried, he cannot
entertain as much as he would like at
his own house, but he gets up numer-
Gus theater parties which, being proper
ly chaperoned, not infrequently termi-
nate in charming little suppers for the
young people who are his guests
The new member of parliament
from India is Mr.. NaorijL He is the
son of a Parsee priest, and was the first
native professor in any leading college
in India He held the chair of mathe-
mates and philosophy in the Elphin-
stone College school, and has been
prime factor in many progressive move
ments for reform in India He has
now lived in England for thirty years.
Mrs Langtry has added yachting to
her fads She has just paid e25, 900 for
Lord Ashburton's beautiful and swift
steam yacht, Lady Mabel, now at Cowes,
after long cruise with his lordship and
family. Mrs Langtry is said to have
recently declared that, being now 40
wears of age, it was time that she began
to enjoy life, instead of fooling away
her money and time in theatrical specu-
lations.
-Monteseuieu once applied very hap
pilv the old proverb, Les petits cadeaux
entretiennent l'amitie" He was at
variance on some parliamentary ques-
ton with a gentleman of position and
influence, but who was also somewhat
bigoted. II would stake my head on
it," said the latter to Montesquieu.
And l accept it gladly" Montesquieu
replied; ''for triding presents cement
friendship"
"A plucky little Louisiana woman,
who runs a big saw-nill In the pine
districts of the state, and whose bust
ness ability has enabled her to amass
fortune in her unusual sphere, lately
attended a convention of southern lum-
bermen in New Orleans; and the chiv-
alrous southrons, recognizing her abili-
ty, appointed her on several RESPONSE BILE
committees and gladly availed them
selves of her knowledge of the business.
Lord Tennyson lived far longer
than the average British poet Shak-
speare died at SO, Milton at 66, Byron
at 80, Scott at 81, Pope at So, Thompson
at IS, Campbell at 81, Coleridge at SO,
Cowper at SO, Butler at 62, Burns at 81,
Shelley at 80, Keats at 26, Leigh Hunt
at IS, ChattertOn at IS and Chaucer,
''the father of English poetry" at 80.
Tennyson was born three years before
Browning, who died, it will DE remem-
bered, in 1889.
Mime. Camilla Urso. the violinist,
had a narrow escape from serious &C
cident in New York recently. She was
walking on the boulevard with her
husband, Mr. Frederic Luer, in the
early evening, when man on big
bicycle with neither bell nor lantern,
ran directly over them, knocking them
to the pavement The law-breaker
made his escape in the darkness, and
fortunately no injury beyond a few
bruises was sustained by the surprised
pedestrians