The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Together with his knowledge OF
Islamism ex-Consul Alexander r. Webb
has brought home the peculiarly orna-
mental accomplishment of knowing
how to wrap o turban around the head.
The whole operation lasts but few
seconds and seems a marvel of dex-
terity.
-Rt Hon C. P. Villiers. the father
of the house of commons, is one of the
most clever whist players in London.
Although past ninety years of age, he
is frequent guest at dinner parties in
the creme de la creme of London So
ciety, his conversation being bright
and sparkling.
Col. H. E. Linsley, a capitalist well
known in the northwest, has applied
for charter for a national bank to be
esta blished aboard barge, which he
proposes moving among the mining
towns of Lake Kootenai, Idaho, none
of which can support a bank, though
in need of the facilities Of one
Secretary Carlisle advisers are men
of young years and of even younger APP
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rotary of the treasury, is thirty-six and
looks thirty: Eckels, comptroller of the
treasury, is thirty-four. smooth shaven
and boyish. and w. E. Curtis, the other
assistant secretary. is thirty-eight
Capt Clipperton. British consul at
Philadelphia and an old friend of Jules
Verne, says there is no foundation for
recently published story that Verne
is an assumed name and that the novel
ist is Pole. Verne, he says, is of an
old Nantes family, and the name has
been respected one for generations.
Charlotte NJ. Yonge modestly &C
knowledges that the money which she
earned from the publication Of her
best-known novel, 1.-THE Heir Of Red
cliffe,' was used to furnish the South
ern Cross, the vessel wherein her cous-
in, Bishop Coleridge Pattison, made his
voyages among the South Sea islands.
DR.. William Everett, who has been
returned to congress from Henry Cabot
Lodges old district, has for nearly fif-
teen years been head master of Adams
academy at Quincy, Mass. He is the
author of some books for boys. two Of
which, Changing Base" and Double
Play" have long been popular with
youthful readers.
Edwin Holmes, the discoverer of
the comet in Andromeda, which has at
tracted much attention during the past
few months, IS an amateur astronomer.
living in Islington, one of the suburbs
of London. His telescope has an
aperture of twelve and a quarter inches,
which, he says, is very much larger than
was necessary for this purpose.
Among authors there are but few
who take the slightest interest in social
or political questions. SO far as public
questions are concerned, they are hard
~ better informed than Dante Gabriel
Rossetti. During the French revolu-
ton. one of his friends burst into Ros-
setti's studio with the incredible news.
'Louis Philippe has landed in En-
gland" HAS he?' said Rosetti, calm
ly; what has he come for?''
The house of a well-known lady
novelist in London was the other day
observed to be shrouded in the gloom
of drawn curtains and lowered blinds.
Sympathetic friends presently called to
inquire what family affection had taken
place. They were admitted into q dark
ened drawing-room, where, clad IN deep
mourning and holding a clean pocket
handkerchief in her hand. the lady
novelist sat weeping upon the couch. a
sympathetic and inquiring murmur
from the visitors elected a fresh burst
of tears as the lady sobbed forth: ''Af-
fiction? Yes, | should think so. My
hero is just dead