The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-19
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

PERSONAL. AND IMPERSONAL.
"A Charleston Is. c. inventor, who
sent an invalid's chair of his own con-
struction to Queen Victoria some years
ago, received portrait of her majesty
in lieu of other reward, and it has since
been his most highly priced possession.
Mr.. George w. Childs, of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, has bought a plot in
Greenwood cemetery for the burial of
the late Richard A. Proctor, whose
body now lies in an unmarked grave,
and the erection of suitable monu-
ment to perpetuate the memory of the
astronomer.
Congressman W. c. P. Breckenridge,
of Kentucky, who knows how to talk
well and eloquently, says that hard
work and plenty of it is essential to a
public speaker if he expects to talk
effectively. He must have his subject
well in hand and know a good deal
more about it than his hearers.
-Ex-Congressman John Cessna, of
Pennsylvania, has been present at
every commencement of Franklin and
Marshall college since he was gradu-
ated there in 1912, and he has missed
attending but two sessions of the SUI
preme court of Pennsylvania in forty
five years. He is now 72 years old.
Senator j. Blackburn, of Kentucky,
appeared at the opening of the session
in shirt of a pinkish hue, tie of a deli
cate mauve, and the coat. trousers and
vest were of beautiful ice-cream color
that shone amid the black-coated south
erners about him like a single star
pinned upon the bosom of the night.
"A New York chemist, accompanied
by two friends, has started on foot
journey to California. They expect to
be one hundred and seventy days on
the way and to subsist exclusively on
an elixir which the chemist claims to
have discovered and of which he says
half teaspoonful three times day
will enable man to dispense with food
Snd sleep.
Queen Victoria now heads the list
Is the English sovereign who has
Reigned the longest She has passed
She record of Henry Ill, who ruled
6fty-six years in the thirteenth century.
1t is true George III. was nominally
king for fifty-nine years, but great
part of his reign was in name only, as
he was insane and the government had
George ". at its head as regent.
burgh Post
There is one lawyer in New York
who distrusts the common belief that
farming is played out in New England.
He bought some ancestral acres in
Massachusetts, and set a farmer to till
Ing them. The result at the end of
some years is that his capital invested
earns per cent, and he has besides a
delightful summer house, enhanced in
sentimental value by old associations.
He does not attempt to grow wheat in
competition with the west, and he be-
iieves New England farmers need to
study markets.
Mr. William Waldorf Astor appears
to English eyes as a quiet, unobtruSive
man of thirty-tive, with a pleasant,
open countenance and broad fore
head, indicating an active, intellectual
mind. He dresses in most unpretend-
ing manner and wears no jewelry, save
q sin gle ring and small watch-chain.
His treasures of money are stored in a
remarkable strong-room of riveted
steel, over which is an inch and half
Of solid concrete, which could only be
removed by slow and patient drilling.
The solid steel door, with its compli-
Gated lock, weighs about two and a
half tons
The eyes of deep sea fish are very
varied; somd have neither eyes nor
sight, others have greatly enlarged eye
balls, SO as tc catch the least glimpse of
light Their eyes tend either to disap-
pear or to be unusually efficient, but
since no trace of sunlight can penetrate