The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-19
PURLoINED AND PrLLAGED.

DAVID Brown rounded out his fifty
eighth consecutive year OF service in the
Philadelphia health office few days ago
The family Of the late James F. Wilson
intimate that they will probably donate
the Senator's historical papers and col.
lections to the Iowa State Historical So
ciety.
Kaiser Wilhelm is now spending ST.
10000 on additions and improvements TO
his palace in Berlin which it will require
seven years to finish. Last year SS59, 00(
was spent in the rebuilding the north
western end Of the palace.
The duke Of Anhalte, Germany, cele-
brated his birthday recently by establish
ing a decoration for workinemen. Every
laborer in his dominions who has been
twnty-five years in the employ of the
same person or firm is to get silver medal
The governor of Rhode Island is "his
excellency so-and-so. Governor Of the
state of Rhode Island and the Providence
Plantations, commander of the militia and
Captain-General of the Flee"-though no
more Of this ringarole than the first two
words is often used.
1t is said that Corot, the painter. used
TO give needy artists paintings which he
had done, and would tell them that by
skillful bargaining they might get Il
francs for each Of them. One OF these
painting was recently sold for 5000 francs
and another for 1900 francs.
Theodore Mommsen, the historian, has
been elected a foreign associate of the
French academy of Inscriptions, In place
-
elected a corresponding member in 1850.
and would have been an associate much
sooner than this had IL not been for his
attitude toward France after the war of
1870.
It is said that a newspaper will soon
be printed in Chicago which will be a
model journal in every respect. 1t Will
have no Sunday issue, and the Monday
issue will be set up on Saturday night.
Crime win be ignored entirely, and only
items which shall picture the world as a
place Of sunshine and goodness will be
printed.
The bachelors of the Inns of Court have
decided that a peer of England may be
called to the bar, and Lord Ampthiil, if he
shall pass his examination, will be the
first peer ever called. When Lord Cole
ridge, who is queens counsel, succeed
ed his father, the late Lord Chief Justice,
the courts decided that a lawyer on be-
coming a peer could still practice at the
bar.
The Womans Board of the Cotton States
and International exposition, has aroused
so much interest in most of the states that
an overwhelming demand for space has
been made upon the management. The
activity and the amount of labor perform
ed by the women of this department have
been phenomenal; considering the means
at their disposal, and the results attained
so far are more than astonishing. With
similar zeal on the part of the various
boards, the exposition will prove an un-
qualified success in every sense.
The little town OF Wauchula, Fla,
boasts of a family of ten sturdy children,
all under the age OF three and a half years.
The mother of the children first bore
twins, then triplets. and on April 4. last.
she gave birth to equintuplets, four girls
and one boy, all of whom are said to be
thriving remarkably we'll The local news
paper. which is responsible for this story.
claims that this is the worlds record.
Such widespread interest in this remark
able family has been aroused that IL is
proposed to introduce a bill into the F1ori-
da legislature TO provide for the relief OF
the parents, who are reported TO be very
poor. The mother seems to possess, how
ever. many more jewels than the mother
of the Ora cchi.