The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-15

PlQUANT PERSON AIS.

Vogue says that the Earl of Craven is
wearing green shade with his otherwise
irreproachab!e costumes, because he has
4 sly on his eye.
John Jacob Astor will erect chapel
in memory Of his father, William Astor.
1t will be the property of Trinity church
and viii be Of great beauty.
Georgia Cayvan has been reviewing
the japanese stage. She says that the
actors wear wigs made on a foundation
OF sheet iron, hammered into shapes to
fit their heads.
Berliners are interested in the worlds
ballet, ''ColHmbia," at the Theater Inter
den Linden. is view of the worlds fair
buildings.
\ military tournament will be an at
traction in Chicago this Summer. Two
hundred men, seventy horses and eight
batteries representing the cavalry, in
fantry and royal artillery of the English
army are coming over to carry it
through.
There are $4,000 typewriters at work
in New York. two-thirds of the number
male stenogra pliers is $14 a week, while
the average for women is 81, though
some women receive as high as $40 a
week for their services.
The Viking ship which is coming over
to help celebrate the discovery of
America, sailed from Christina last Sum
day. She will coast around Norway and
not start over the ocean until May. The
Spanish caravei the Santa Maria has al
ready reached Havana.
cold Uncle john Thorpe, the chief of
the bureau of Horticulture at the Worlds
fair, Is known to florists throughout the
land as the father of the chrysanthe-
num-" He was the first to develop the
flower. 70 him is also due many vari-
cites of the carnation.
1t is averred that Shakespeare was
good swordsman, although there is no
record of his having made use of his
alleged talent. Most of his plays call for
the use of a sword, and professional
fencing master is authority for the asser-
ton that all of Shakespeare's fencing
scenes were written with a knowledge
Of the art. The bard of Avon is said to
have been a pupil of Vincent Saviolo, a
noted fencing master who taught III
London about 1890,
There was touch of romance about
General Kirby Smiths marriage. He
was wounded at Bull RIM and carrsed
to the nearest house where he was
nursed back to life by a young lady,
with whom he fell in love.
They were married and at Shreveport
afterward General Smith could be seen
hoeing little patch of ground to raise
vegetables for his wife, who had become
an invalid, and that same year he sold
his faithful horse. which he loved next
to his wife, in order to procure food for
her.
The exhibit which the Tiffanv's are
sending to the worlds fair is on exhibit
ton in New York. It includes /, 900
pieces, among them glrdle containing
$50 penuyweights of woven gold set with
Canary brilliants; tie largest diamond
necklace ever shown, there being forty
two large stones in it: a set OF topaz
jeweiry made of , 000 stones: an epau-
lette made in imitation of Spanish lace.
of gold threads and / 900 emeralds and
ZOO diamonds. The great novelty of
the collection is a corsage ornament of
maidenhair fern represented in gold and
stones: from bunch Of brilliantS two
large leaves spring upward and curl
back over the shoulder; 800 diamonds,
800 brilliants and l20 pearls are required
for its composition.