The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-25

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

"A western man whose wealth con.
sisted largely in mining interests, in
sisted that his only child, a daughter,
should acquire complete mastery of
mining affairs and all forms of business
connected with it and sent her to col
lege for that purpose.
Some of our present day children
are startling occasionally. A little
girl of five years recently used the ex-
preston post-mortem judgment.
Upon her brothers questioning her and
insisting that she should define it, she
said: well, if you do thing and then
afterward wish you had done another
thing, that's post-mortem judgment
Mrs Abby Hutchinson Patton, the
"Abby Hutchinson of the famous
family of singers, recently died and was
buried at the old home in Milford, \.
II. The only surviving member of the
family of sixteen children is John, who
lives at High Rock, Lynn, Mass, and
is in his seventy-frst year Three of
Mrs. Patton's best-known compositions
are Mrs Lofty and l." Kind words
Can Never Die" and IF l Were
Voice.
-Chauncey II Depew remarks:
"When l attend dinner of my German
fellow-citizeus ! am a German. When
! sit down TO i banquet Of the Sons of
New England l am a descendant of
the Pilgrim fathers / am also an
Irishman at Irish dinners, a French
man at French dinners, etc. l have,
on a pinch, changed my nationality
three times inside of twenty-four hours
and never suffered anything worse than
q little indigestion for it"
Two reverend and eloquent divines
of the Church of Eogland. at Glouces-
ter. were, on a recent Sunday, the vic
Tins of either shocking baseness at the
hands of the sermon factory which
has been told about, or of a deplora bic
slip-up in the distri button of the plate
matter discourses. The same sermon,
word for word, was preached in the
morning by the vicar at one of the city
churches, and in the evening at the
cathedral by one of the minor canons.
A well known Washington woman
has habit of writing postal cards to
herself one day as reminders of special
duties to which she needs to give at
tention on the next Which is like a
bit Of provision among those notorious
ly-improvident folk-stage people. 1t is
d common thing for actors and actresses
on the road to send money orders to
themselves at coming places on their
route list, which is often the only care
f,,. +. ,a 81, nE -ol-
Charles T. Russell, of Allegheny,
Pa, announces that the millennium
will surely arrive IL October of 1914.
We are now in the Tapping time" be-
tween the hay of the gospel and the
grass of the millennium era This
'1apping time began in October of
1874. and will last forty years During
this period the Kingdoms of the world
will be overthrown by the anarchists,
nihilists, socialists and nationalists.
At the same time the Hebrews will all
be in Palestine.
Reviewing the post-oficial career
of the presidents OF the United States,
a Washington writer notes that six
Washington, jefferson, Madison,
Jackson, Johnson and Hayes-became
planters or farmers upon retiring from
public life; that five-Tan Buren,, Fill
more, Tyler Grant and Cleveland
openly t5ed TO get another term; that
tive-Van Buren,. Polk, Fillmore, Pierce
and Grant-traveled extensively at the
close OF their official career, and that
four-Adams, Pierce, Buchanan and
Hayes-soonero or later became recluses