The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs Loveioy Aldrich, of Seattle,
! Washington. is the widow of two
| soldiers. Her first husband was in the
revolutionary war, and the other in
the war of 1912. She is the only person
known to the pension Office who stands
in this position.
"A posthumous work by Cardinal
Manning, being his only contribution
to secular literature. is about to be pub
lished in London. 1t consists of essays
on Honor" Consistency" Vanity"
Popularity" ''The Fourth Estate"
Critics, and like subjects.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley is busy upon
series of short stories for early pub
iication. They consist of legends and
folk tales communicated to the explorer
by his native followers during his long
and perilous journeys through the great
forests of the Dark Continent.
M. Ernest Lavisse, the new French
academician, is notable for his histri-
Onic talent. Indeed it is claimed that
at the Lycee Charlemagne he was wont
to declaim Cicero's orations with such
dramatic vigor as to check any ten
dency to yawning on the part of his
class.
Mr.. George Lizotte and Mrs. Lizotte,
niece of Justice Harlan. have been on
wedding tour ever since theipSnar-
riage in June. 1891. They like the life
and say they may continue it as long
as they live. Thus far they have trav-
eled $1,000 miles and have visited al
most every town of any size in North
America.
Nine. de Lesseps, wife of ''le grand
Francois, can write equally well in
French and English. She wrote novel
several years ago and published it
anonymously. She is collecting her
husbands private papers and CORE
spondence. and proposes, it is said, to
write a book explaining and defending
his course IN regard to Panama.
Edison, the wonderful, the man
who can work sixty hours on stretch,
the greatest inventor of the country,
has interesting ideas about food,
Variety he says, SIS the secret of
wise eating. The nations that eat the
most kinds of foods are the greatest ma
tiOns. and he said to his wife. Just after
they were married: Il wish | might
not eat the same thing twice in
month
Jane Whitcomb Riley told the
Louisville people that he is always
troubled with difidence when he goes
upon the platform to deliver lecture.
II always" says the poet, have an
ague of more or less pronounced type
when | face an audience. But I have
grown to be grateful for this. because
/ consider it an acknowledgment that
speaker owes his audience obeisance,
and that he is fearful he will not be
able to fulfill their expectations. l
would rather approach a crowd in this
attitude than to be too sanguine."
David Mccoy. OF Redlauds. south
ern California. celebrates this wear his
one hundred and third birthday. He is
still hale and happy, and hopes to live
down many younger men yet. He was
born in Burke county, \. c. MAY 2,
1929. When twentv-one years old he
moved 70 Frankfort. Ky. and in the
war Of 1912 he Joined Col r NJ John
sons First regiment OF Kentucky vol
unteers to go mp against the British and
Indians who We're fnenacing the United
States border from Canada in $40 he
moved 70 Greencastle, Ind. and in 1880
10 Rolla, 40. In 1858 he went 70 Cali /
fornia, but after q residence OF some I
wears there returned 20 Missouri He
is fina llY N California again.