The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-13
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL

-1smail Pasha, whose bad luck is
traced by many Egyptians to his act,
while khedive, in letting Cleopatra's
Needle come to this country, is not per-
mitted to leave Constantinople without
the surveillan of medical man, who
is also diplomatic spy. His condition
is not so precarious as that of the cred
itors who advanced him $50, coo. 900.
The proprietor of cigar shop IN
Philadelphia died of black diphtheria
few days ago, and that the danger Of
contagion might be avoided, his body.
in its coffin. was placed in the show
window of his store during the funeral
services, that his friends might pass by
on the outside. All the neighbors
iocked to see the somewhat uncanny
spectacle.
Everett Chauncey Bumpus, of the
freshman class at Harvard. has been
totally blind since he was six years of
age. He is the son of Judge E. c. Bum
pus, of Quincy, and is twenty years OF
ago. He has been student at the Per
kins institute for the blind in Boston
and at the Thayer academy in Brain
tree, Mass, and took high rank in his
class at the latter, where he prepared
for college.
William II. Graham, who died re-
Gently in Newcastle county, Del, at the
age of 90, was a drummer boy in the
war of 1912, and as blacksmith he
helped to put together the parts of the
first locomotive engine used on the old
Newcastle & Frenchtown railroad, one
of the earliest railways in the United
States. The locomotive was imported
in pieces from England and put together
at Newcastle under the eyes of skilled
machinist.
THE absent-minded man who
searched everywhere for the spectacles
which he had pushed up on his fore
head" said New York citizen, twas
my uncle. The absent-minded woman
who took a clock that had stopped from
her own room to the one adjoining to
oil it, and who sent from there back to
her own room to see what time it was,
so that she could set it, was my wife.
I think that absent mindedness must
run III my family.
Miss Cleveland, of South Pasadena,
according to the Los Angeles Times, a
cousin of President Cleveland, has start
ed charity of her own in that city.
She is fitting up house she owns as a
home for children whose parents are
too poor to provide for them. NJ SIS
Cleveland is bright, active woman Of
seventy. She does her own housekeep-
ing work, and devotes several hours =
day to teaching her little charges. whom
she feeds and clothes at her own eX-
pense.
the anthropological building at the
worlds fair last summer was Antonio
Apache. full-blood Indian, whose
tribal name is his family name as WELL
and who was once a member of the
band under the guidance of the famous
Victoria. Antonio at that time was
only boy. Now he is a grown man
with perfect command of the English
language and such an acquaintance
with things pertaining to Prof. Put
MANS department as to have been very
valuab BILE to the learned man. even at
the regular work in Harvard college.
Every man who conducts himself
oddly in public is now suspected of be-
ing a crank. A New York man who
seemed to those behind him to be carry
ing carefully in one hand napkin,
probably beneath plate of soup, was
watched narrowly the other day when
it was discovered that he bore no plate
Of soup. but merely held the cloth at
arms length before him. People
his movements for a whole
block, until he was seen to turn with
the cloth pressed to his nose. Then the
crowd began to suspect that ne was
only an abseut-minded man with q
nose.