The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-30
PERSONAL. AND LITERARY.

The king Of; Saxony will celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance
into the army next October. With the
exception of the grand duke of Baden
| his majesty is the only ruler now living
who took prominent part in the wars
| with Austria and Trance.
Sir PonSonby Fame is to succeed
| Admiral Sir Charles Drumnond a. usher
| of the black rod. This. office is some
what similar to that of sergeant-at-arms
in our senate, only that the usher has
far less to do, and gets $4,000 yea,
and splendid residence for doing it.
Sir Walter Scott never did Justice
| to his own poetry When James Bal.
| lantyne asked SCOTS little daughter
what she thought of THE Lady of the
Lake" she replied that she had not
read it. for ''Papa says there is nothing
SO bad for young people as reading bad
poetry
-Hamed Bin Thwain, the new sultan
of Zanzibar and the fourth within the
space of five years, is grandson of a
brother OF the four previous Sultans.
his nearest relative being. Abdul Aziz,
who is the sole survivor of the fifty
brothers and sisters of Hamed Bin
Thwain' S grandfather.
Baroness Wilson, the well-known
Spanish writer, has completed her sec
ond tour through South America. Mex
leo. Central America, and the United
States. The baroness is a great trav-
eler as well as a writer, and has spent
fifteen years ins those countries, study
ing the people and their history.
Lady EmilyiLangton teaches school
in Chicago, and now seeks divorce from
a worthless husband who turned out
to be bad man. and who deserted her
to follow out his own methods of life.
1t is rare. indeed. that an Englishwom-
an of title has to apply to the American
court for relief from an unhappy mar
riage.
Gen. Tracey, congressman from Al
bany. y. Y, says that while the presi-
dent of the United States can find a
civil answer for everybody, some of the
81. 900 clerks OF cabinet officers and
committees put on the manners of
despot The latter probably feel that
they can not afford to be courteous at
that figure.
Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium
as horsewoman and Judge of horSefiesh
is said to have few rivals in Europe. not
excepting her relative, the empress of
Austria. One of her favorite amusc-
ments is to organize equestrian enter
tainments to which only very intimate
friends or persons attached to the court
are ever admitted.
1t viii probably be a grief to
Cardinal Vaughan that.he must forsake
his beloved omnibus and descend to the
dignity OF private brougham. Yet
such is the irexorabfe decree of the
vatican. No cardinal may go afoot:
his rightful chariot is driven by two
horses in the eternal city. but in
diligence allows one of these to be dis
pensed with in Protestant countries
Cardinal Manning always went out in
a single brougham.
When Judge Robins. OF Worcester
county. Md. died some time in the Sos
of the present century, he left behind
MIN good number Of slaves. and a
landed estate of twenty-five or thirty
farms, varying in area from 200 10 1900
acres The landed estate he entailed
in the male line, with the hope of found
ing a territorial family of eastern shore
magnates- His only son. however cut
the entail with the consent of the eldest
grandson. and after litigation by two
sets Of the judges grandchildren only
q small fraction of the estate remains
in the family.