The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-16
PERSONAL AND iMpERsonAL

Claus Sprechels Is cicullcu Win eH0
intention of building a magnificent
house in the fashionable part of San
Francisco on a lot he has just bought
1t is understood that he will entertain
lavishly, though heretofore Mr.. Sprecb-
els has lived in an old-fashioned house
That there is money ip the news
paper business is evinced by the expe-
rience of James Crassan, Journalist of
Muncie. Ind. He intends suing the city
for ten thousand dollars damages be-
cause he was quarantined for twenty
one days in an old box car under the
supposition that he had been exposed
to smallpox.
Mime. Nilsson Countess de Casa
Miranda) now lives in Paris in most
luxurious hotel in the Quarter Mar
boeuf. She has unique collection of
art tres asures, among them being a
beautiful clock which belonged to
Charles XII. of Sweden. and magnifi-
cent fan once the property OF the Swed-
ish Queen Christine.
1t is said that art critics are fairly
raving over Turini's design for Co.
lumbus-Isa bella group of statuary.
Giovanni Turini is New York artist.
He represents Columbus standing with
scroll in his hand and beside him 1sa-
bella, holding up her court train with
her left hand while with her right she
is pointing to the scroll
The comte de Montesquieu, who
exhibits exquisite specimens of inlay
ing at the Grafton gallery in London, is
rich and eccentric French nobleman,
who lives in the immediate neighbor.
hood Of Paris His house is a show
place, and especially remarkable for
the dining-room, which contains a
winter garden. Walking about among
the plants are great number of small,
live Venetian turtles, variously enam-
eled and incrusted with diamonds and
other precious stones
Miss Helen Gould has offered a
great farm at Irvington-on-the-H Hudson
to the kindergarten and Potted Plant
association The land will be dotted,
with number of frame buildings, in
which two hundred and fifty or more.
children are to be lodged and fed dur
ing the summer months These will
be ready June l. There will be flower
beds as object lessons laid out by ex-
perienced gardeners; but each child
who is brought there will be allotted
plot of ground and taught to cultivate,
it
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,
IL said to submit herself to the severest
regimen in order to retain the beauti-
full figure for which she is noted. She
fasts morning and evening, making her
only regular meal at noon, of grilied,
meat, biscuits and glass of wine.
Occasionally she eats a raw egg or a
little fruit. She wears heavy flannel
underwear winter and summer, takes
vapor baths and massage, and by dint
of all this and much horseback riding
she keeps waist measure of twenty
inches in spite of her ffty-six years
Harper's Bazaar.
Howard Pyle has taken for the
subject of an illustration in a recent
magazine the house which he is now,
occupying-that of Ambassador Bayard
"a charming old mansion, whose
lofty. pillared porch overlooks the city
of Wilmington and the valley of the
lower Christiana, A dead and gone
Delawarean sunk a considerable part
of his fortune in building the old
house, and subsequent owners have
added to it as they needed more room,
until it is now rambling structure, !
without unity OF plan, but all the more.
delightful for its defects 1t stands.
with its back to the street, because the
house long aptedates the new city
thoroughfare by which it is now ap-
nroa chad