The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

The most absent-minded man in
the world has been found at Geneseo,
New Jersey. He went to his telephone
the other day in one of his abstracted
moments and rang himself up.
Mrs. Hannah Martin, of Simcoe,
Ont. over one hundred years of age, ia
visiting in Toronto Her eyesight is
keen and her hand steady enough to
thread the finest needle. She can re.
sail events that happened in 1901.
Edward Dunbar. the author Of the
hvmn, There's a Light in the Window
for Thee, Brother" died a few days
ago in the Jail at Coheyville, KY,
where he had applied for lodging as
tramp. Dunbar was once noted
evangelist. but his career was cut short
b. a term in the Minnesota state prison
for bigamy.
"A thief, convicted OF robbing the
mails, said that he could readily pick
out a letter which contained bank
note, by the odor. He was blindfolded
and four hundred letters We're placed
on a ia BILE before him. He rapidly took
each one in hand, and smelled it. BY
this means he picked out the seven
which contained money.
Andrew Jackson's body servant, a
very old darky whose name is Uncle
Alfred, is still living at Jackson's old
home, the Hermitage. near Nashville.
lie acts as guide to the many pilgrims
who 90 there. and has great fund
of anecdote about Old Hickory. He is
the only person now living who was
present at the deathbed of this famous
democratic ex-president.
The sister of Emin Pasha, Fraulein
Melanie Schnitzer recently moved to
Berlin with Ferida, the little daughter
of the explorer. Since the child was
brought from Africa she had lived in
Eeisse, small town. the native place
of her father. Fraulein Schpitzer in
tends to live in Berlin in the future in
prder to give her niece better oppor-
tunities for study and education.
Mrs Emily E. Ford, who died very
recently in Brooklyn. was the widow
of Gordon J.. Ford, a former publisher
of the Tribune; the mother of Wash
tngton Ford, the sta tistician; the grand
naughter of Noah Webster, of diction-
hry fame. and last, though by no means
least In these athletic drys. the mother
of Malcolm w. Ford, at one time the
champion amateur athlete of America.
"A destitute man in Omaha held up
D mail carrier and robbed him of all
the money he had-one cent Another
man, an officer in the national bank of
Lincoln, stole nearly $1,000, ,0C0 from
The bank. Both men were arralgned
before the same judge. The poor man
who stole one cent pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to twenty years impris-
pnment; the man who stole million
was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment.
The Princess Bismarck, who is a
great admirer of England, recently adj
dressed the following letter to one of
her London friends: ''Your little Isle
of Wight is truly a garden of the gods.
Proud as ] am of my husband, the
thought comes to me sometimes that
we would have been both happier il
Providence had designed your beautiful
old England as our field OF activity.
Although politics are strange to me
cannot refrain from rep atiDg what
have often said: Know that if ! had
had the choice of a nationality | should
have chosen to be free English.
woman, fresh, cultivated, trained in
liberty for an active life, and looked
upon by my husband as something
more than zero or a plaything. With
eli my heart love old England"