The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-08
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

Sir Charles Russell, the well known
English Encouragement, has received
for his fee in connection with the Behr-
ing sea arbitration the sum of $40, 900.
In addition to this his regular salary is
s35, 900 year, and he picks up an addi-
tional $50, 600 for fees
"A St Petersburg editor has hit
upon the notion Of printing his journal
on paper suitable for making cigar
cites 1t is said that its circulation has
been greatly increased by this means,
as the Russians are largely given to
smoking cigarettes, which they make
themselves.
Miss May Frank. of Oakland, Cal.
who was offered the place of teacher
lecturer and preacher in a reformed
Hebrew congregation in Philadelphia,
has declined it, because she does not
care to be bound to any congregation.
Miss Frank is proba bly, the first woman
to whom such a position was ever
rendered. She will continue her work
on the Pacific coast.
Baltimore has blind boatman.
His boat was stolen by some worthless
fellows the other day and su bsequently
abandoned and picked up. He claimed
it, and when told that he must identify
it, did so, not by telling the color and
model, as q man with good eyes might
do, but giving the positions of all the
nails and the chinks in the boat where
splinters had been knocked of.
"A French singer of prominence,
and most charming woman went
to the Society islands on professional
tour. Instead of receiving money for
her services at the concert, she re-
ceived Ave hundred cocoanuts, three
pigs, twenty-three turkeys, forty-four
chickens, and a lot of bananas, lemons,
and oranges The papers did not tell
US how she carried the proceeds home.
Mrs. Lewis, whose late husband was
Prof. Lewis, of Cam bridge, England,
has returned with her sister from her
second visit to the monastery of Mount
Sinai Mrs. Lewis is familiar with
Greek, Hebrew and Arabic The
monks at the monastery permitted her
to examine six chests full of manu-
scripts in their possession, and she and
her sister brought away photographs
of almost all the papers.
The story is told of Philip D. Ar
mour, of Chicago, that few months
ago the grain dealers got up a corner,
hoping to squeeze him, His own
granaries were full, and they refused
to let him have square inch of space
in their elevators. Mr.. Armour had
thirty days in which to find place for
three million bushels of wheat. Ac-
cordingly he sent for his builder. told
him what he wanted, and in twenty
eight days the largest and finest grain
elevator in Chicago had been erected,
and the grain was stored in it.
1t is well known that the car of
Russia is man of enormous strength.
Many stories are told of him, the latest
of which is that he and his wife, while
on return journey to St Petersburg,
a short time ago, stopped at small
station for luncheon. The daughter of
the mayor of the village brought a bou-
quet of flowers to the empress, but for
got to dry the stems. The empress,
not wishing to soil her gloves, hesitat-
ed moment about taxing the flowers
The car, seeing heavy pewter plate
on the table, picked it up, twisted it
into holder, placed the bouquet in it
and handed it to his wife.