The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
PERSONAL AND lmPERsoNAL

! Miss Minnehaha, an Indian woman.
is a trained nurse in New York wom-
ans hospital. and an excellent nurse
she is said to be. She is finely educated.
| both professionally and otherwise, and
her appearance is that of other cultured
women, except for darker tinge OF
color in the skin and a peculiarly erect
carriage.
| The lord mayor of London has an
allowance of $4,000 a year, but this
sum is only half sufficient, owing to
f, the enormous amount of entertaining
which the head of the Mansion house
| is called upon to do. Still there are,
no doubt, plenty of persons who would
| be glad to be lord mayor on this i'll.
paid basis.
The Princess Margaret of Con-
naught, who is only eleven years old,
! took her mothers place at the recent
| opening of bazaar at Southsea. Her
| father accompanied her, and the two
were addressed as ''Your royal high
nesses," much to the delight of the lit
| tie princess, who was presented with q
| handsome casket.
Travellers in arctic regions say the
| physical effects of cold there are about
as follows: Fifteen degrees above, un-
pleasantly warm; zero, mild; ten de-
grees below, bracing; twenty degrees
below, sharp, but not severely cold;
| thirty degrees below, very cold; forty
degrees below, intensely cold; fifty de-
grees below, struggle for life.
"A certain English gentlewoman
has lavender distillery in Surrey.
Lavender, like so many other old-fash-
Toned things, is coming again into
favor, and its quaint, sweet scent is
right welcome. August is the month
of the lavender harvest. Rose drying
is also carried on by this enterprising
woman, whose investment is quite a
paying one.
Among the dead resting in Mount
Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. ,
are Louis Agassiz, Henry w. Longfel-
low, James Russell Lowell, Edwin
Booth, John Lothrop Motley, Rufus
I Choate, Charlotte Cushman, Edward
Everett, Charles Sumner, Arson Bur-
lingame, Margaret Fuller-Ossoli, Doro-
thy Dix, Phillips Brooks and William
Ellery Charming.
"A distinguished visitor in Boston
just now is Mrs. Philip Barton Key, of
North Carolina, who is great-grand-
niece of George Washington and his
nearest living relative. Mrs. Key is d
lineal descendant of Mary Washington,
the generals mother, through that
lady's youngest son, Charles Washing
ton. She is a handsome woman of ma
jestic figure and her features bear a
the great George.
w. III. Vanderbilt. some time be-
fore his death, spoke of himself as a
goner, and said: ''All this money isn't
worth rap. l would give it all for
your health" to which a friend, half
laughingly and half seriously. replied:
"Well, too much money is nuisance.
I The happiest time in my life was when
I was worth $500, 0O0.' sAnd the hap
piest time in my life" rejoined Wander
bilt, was when 1 was working on my
Staten Island farm
John Hope, one of the prominent
characters of Edinburg, who has lust
died, hated to see boys smoking in the
streets, and SO whenever he met a
Scotch urchin with pipe in his mouth
he would stop and lecture him on the
subject. Generally he finished his
homily by purchasing the pipe and
destroying it in the boys presence.
This method of advancing the cause of
the anti-tobacco league did not meet
with much success. as the boys usually
invested the money in new pipes and
further supply Of tobacco