The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-03-19
PERSONAL AND ,MpERsonAl

"A near-sighted Atchison girl is said
to have firted every morning with .
snow man standing in . yard she passed
on her way to school He was dressed
in dark suit Of clothes, with stove
pipe hat on, and looked quite like q
dude Though he had never waved at
her, she felt that the fact that he stood
there watching for her every morning
was sign of undying admiration
Atchison Globe.
Mrs. George NJ Pullman Was once
Miss Harriet Sanger. of Ottawa, nli-
nois. and spent part of her early life
in San Francisco, where she was edu-
Gated in al Episcopal school for girls
She is the happy and devoted mother of
four children-two daughters, Harriet
and Florence, who are in society, and
twin sons. Sanger and George NJ. Jr.
Mother and daughters are actively en-
gagged in the charitable work of numer-
GUS organizations in Chicago
Ex-senator Carlisle is said to be
fond of the game of solitaire, and even
plays it while he is at work. The in
tricacies of this diversion are believed
to assist his intellectual processes in
such way that he works out inpor-
tant business questions while manipu.
lating the cards If you watch HIN
while he is seemingly intent on ths
game you may see him look up every
now and then and ask question or
offer remark upon topic very for
eign to his more obvious pursuit
Nervousness shows itself in queer
ways There is a young New York
newspaper man who exhibits COM
mendable self-possession on most occa-
sions. and would not be supposed to
have such thing as nerve about his
person. but there is one specta bic that
he cannot endure, and that is to see
mans hat blow off. If this calamity
occurs in his presence he catches his
breath. shudders and reaches about for
something to hold to until the sensa-
ton of losing himself has passed. This
is constitutional and is the only exhibit
ton of nervous weakness that he ever
makes.
Many persons never knew and some
have forgotten that William H Wander
bilt once seriously contemplated the
building of trotting course on the
banks of the Harlem, which would have
been coincident, at least in part, with
the proposed new speedway in New
York. Mr.. Vanderbilt got SO far as to
discuss the matter with his friends
among the owners of fast horses, and
but for his death the scheme might
have been carried out The plan con-
templated a select club, club house,
and a first-rate track. The chief con-
tributor would have been Mr.. Wander
bilt, and he would have put at least
5000, 900 into the scheme.
"A certain learned Judge, when at
tempting to be clear, is at times rather
perplexing. MY good woman" he is
reported to have said to witness, ''you
must give an answer, in the fewest pos
sible words of which you are capable, to
the plain and simple question whether,
when you were crossing the street with
the baby on your arm, and the omni-
bus was coming down on the right side
and the cab on the left side, and the
brougham was trying to pass the omni-
bus, you saw the plaintiff between the
brougham and the cab, or whether
and when you saw him. at all, and |
whether or not near the brougham,
cab, or omnibus, or either, or any two, |
and which of them respectively-or |
how it WASP"