The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-07
PLEBss AND pLurocRArs.
1t is said that Coxey sang in an Episcop
surpliced choir for ten years.

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surpliced choir for ten years.
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Strength and science Are at peace. San
dow and Corbett have shaken hands.
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The Romans learned the use of yeas
from the Greeks during the war witt
Persius, King of Macedon.
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There are now twenty-four survivors Of
the famous Balaklava charge, SO far al
British army authorities have trace.
N. Carnot will complete his term as
president of the French republic Dec. 3
His salary for the last seven years has
been one-fourth million dollars year be-
sides allowances.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Homes, despite his
age, is described rs silver haired aud keen
eyed. He laughs and chats with anima-
ton. and his flashes of repar.ee are as
frequent and brilliant as ever.
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Foreign papers say that Mascagni has
given himself up to gambling and has lost
a large portion of his fortune at Monte
Carlo. IL is also said that he has severed
his relations with his publisher. Sonzagno.
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The Chicago police recently arrested a
young man whose seeming corpuleucy was
greatly reduced when he was relieved of
ten suits of clothes which he wore when
he entered the police station. He must
have been preparing for one of those Chi
cago spring days right off Lake Michigan.
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The surgical treatment of consumption
has, it is stated by medical authority,
long been a dream of European surgeons.
II is now announced that, as beginning
of series Of experiments, the diseased
apex of the lung of patient suffering
from tuberculosis has been successfully re-
moved.
Princess Maud, youngest of the prince
OF Wales five living children, is "a years
old. and more than twenty years younger
than Lord Roseberry, whom unconfirmed
rumors and gossip assign as her husband
elect. She is bright. clever and good look
ing, and so full of spirits that at home she
is known as Harry"
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Archibald Forbes, of international fame
as student of the science of warfare and
participant in the recent European strug-
giles, SAYS he expects the next war not be-
fore 1896. when Russia will have issued
the new rifles to her army. The coalition
between France and Russia will mean
more than 100000 men. as against the
], 200, 600 of the Dreibund.
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The devotion of the English queen to the
memory of her long dead husband is fully
understood. One of the ways in which il
manifests itself is in the bestowal of gifts
of pieces of solid silver every Christmas
upon the servants who were in the royal
household during his lifetime They are
sent with a large black-bordered card. on
which is inscribed: with good wishes
from Her Majesty and Prince Consort."
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George Merrell, wealthy Louisiana SUI
gar planter, who died recently at the age
of So years, was in some respects a remark
able man. He was man of the old south
ern type, brave as lion. and lived life al
most as romantic as that of Sam Houston.
When a young man he fell in with the
Cherokee Indians in east Tennessee and in
1910 when they moved to the Indian terri
tory he went with them. He married a
daughter of Chief Ross, who presided at
Ross Landing, the site of the present.city of
Chattanooga. When his first life died he
married her sister. He loved the Indians
and was always their ambassador for
peace.