The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-21
PERSONAL AND iMPERSONAL.

Saint Simon, in fit of melancholy,
tried to put bullet through hi. head,
but only succeeded in shooting out one
Of his eyes.
1t has been generally said that 80.
K" was President Andrew Jackson's
abbreviation for ''all correct" Prof.
W. s. Wyman, of the University of
Ala bama, however, thinks that Presi-
dent Jackson borrowed the phrase
from the Choctaw language. in which
the word ''okeh" means 1t is all
right"
Mrs. Eliza beth Heilman, postmis-
tress of Williamsbridge, \. Y, is, in
addition, a real estate operator, a
notary public, and political boss of the
town. She doesn't vote herself. but
the ticket she favors goes" She is
said to have done great deal for the
improvement of the place, where she is
known as Queen Elizabeth
Into her guest chamber the duchess
of Westminster puts a curious Swiss
clock on which appears the printed no.
tice: please do not touch and she
says that Of all the men who have oc-
cupied the chamber only one failed to
ask the reason for the prohibition.
The exception was Mr.. Fawcett, the
late postmaster-general. Mr.. Fawcett
was blind.
The German empress is an energetic
church worker, and largely through
her influence, and in a measure by her
assistance, more than a dozen new
Protestant churches have been erected
in Berlin in the last half-dozen years.
She is a member of no less than eleven
different church societies and associa-
tions in the German capital, TO each of
which she gives an annual subscrip-
ton.
The inventive genius that turns
out collar buttons with long hooks to
keep neckties from climbing over coll
lars, and other similar oddities, has
again been at work. Its latest crea-
ton is yellow rubbers to go with yell
low shoes. Perhaps it was right in
theory, but unfortunately yellow rub
bers are not success. They don't look
well, and are little likely to win popu-
lar favor
The lately deceased duke of Somer-
Set devoted his whole life practically to
driving. At one time he used TO drive
a stage-coach from London to Oxford,
dine at the Mitre, and then drive the
night mail back to London, which left
only two hours out of the twenty-four
for sleep. OF late years he kept the
horse bazaar at Plymouth, letting out
teams to officers and teaching them
how to drive. He wrote the chapter
on ''Old Coaching Days" in the Bad
minister volume on driving.
Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn owns
137, OPS acres of land in Wales, and has
immortal rights over 10000 acres
more. OF the land he owns, 112,O00
acres are occupied by Welsh-speaiing
and $4,000 by English-speaking ten
ants. The tenants are 94l in all. Among
them, twerty-four families have held
the same land from 200 to 250 years
each; three in one parish an average of
333 years apiece; one for 400 years,
while the Foulkes family are sup
posed to have occupied Gartheryr LOCO
years"
-lIberiuS was a man OF unusual
ability, but with q hereditary faint of
insanity. During the early part OF his
life he was of rather austere habits,
quiet. and much inclined to philosophic
speculation. The cloud fell upon him
when he had already passed middle
life, and he gave himself up to the most
disgusting debauchery. His cruelties
L. n
casion a friend was invited to Capraea
at the same time that a prominent
Roman was ordered thither to be put
10 death. The friend came first, and
was promptly hurried away and put to
torture as preliminary to execution.
Tiberius heard of this mistake, but only
said, LAS you have gone so far, put the
man out of his pain"