The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL

William Walter Phelps will not be-
come an editor. He is content to re-
main in the ranks of the fellows VINO
know more about newspaper-makirg
than the editors
Emperor William OF Germany 10
angered at wur,eInberg because lack
of fodder prevented the summer milk
tary maneuvers there. he reseEts the
most remote intimation that he u nos
the fodder Of his country.
President David Starr Jordan. OF tho
Stanford university, says that there IL
not the slightest evidence that sea ser
pents exist or ever did exist and that
the stories of them are largely sub
iective and some of them not free from
the suspicion of alcoholic basis
Joseph Jagellen. n postman at Lem
berg. Austria, is direct descendant OF
the family that held the throne OF
Poland from the beginning OF the four
teenth to the close of the sixteenth
century. He is what may be classed as
y descendant In the mail line
MIR and Mrs William Morse. q
Taunton Mass couple, have just cele.
brated their sixty-sixth wedding ami
versary Mrs Morse. in her eighty
fourth year, is doing her own house
work, and her husband. who is ninety
two wears old, is still bright and alert
Countess Matilda Schmetton and
her daughter, Nine. Desire Won
jGyerlyanfy. members of an old noble
Bavarian family. have been forced tn
leave Vienna, as the police are in
search of them Charges of theft hav"
been brought against them by num-
Der of wealthy people.
Charles Clement, of Rutland. VT,
was oaly eighty-six when he died the
other day, bu, he had taken part in
one of the most thrilling scenes in his
country's history. He was one of the
twenty-five men who defended Love-
joys printing Office in Alton. Ill, dur
ing the Owen Lovejoy riot
James Crapsey. born in January.
1874, was the first man who settled ne
Edgerton. Wis, and since that time up
to this day he has been at work at the
railroad station in one capacity or an
other. Now he is baggageman and
local freight man. and a. active as any
of the boys about the station
Sarah Bernhardt was dressmak-
er's apprentice Adelaide Nelson be-
gan life as child's nurse. Miss Brad
don, the novelist, was utility actress
in the provinces Charlotte Cushman
was the daughter Of poor parents. and
the best contralto this country ever had
up TO a dozen years ago was washer
woman's daughter up in Maine.
The duke of GalIiera, who was To
Italy in one respect what Count Tolstoi
is to Russia, died lately. His grace re.
fused to use his title, insisted upon be-
ing addressed as Mr.. Ferrari. and
earned his own living as teacher of
mathematics. The immense fortune he
inherited he has bequeathed to his ma
tive Genoa for charitable purposes
Philadelphia Ledger.
Pastor Kneipp. the famous discov-
erer of the barefoot cure" who was
recently appointed chamberlain by tho
pope, cared little for the honor. Ha
did not even take the trouble to open
the letter announcing the appointment
and first learned OF the honor conferred
upon him by the arrival of depnta-
ton at the Woerishofen cloister 10 con-
graduate him He declined To be adj
dressed. however. as 'monsignor. Ia
was with difficulty that he was per-
Rome to thank the pope