The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-22
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL-

Donald Frazier, president of the
National Bank of China, in Hong
Kong, says that Ii Hung Chang is
worth $500. 900, 900, and has no more
patriotism than the rest of the corrupt
Chinese oficialdoIn.
Emperor Williams stud was the
most successful one on the turf in his
| country this year, winning S53, 900,
which is considera bly, less than half
the amount of the winnings of the
leading turfmen of the season in this
country.
Mr.. Gladstone has never promoted
bis eldest son, the rector of Hawarden,
or his son-in-law, Rev. Harry Drew.
There is not a single member of the
family who does not earn his or her
daily bread, and there is not title
among them.
Mr.. c. z. Huntington has built a
granite mausoleum in Woodlawn Gene
terry, of which the architecture is cop
led from Doric temple and which con-
tains places for sixteen collins The
cost OF the post-mortem luxury was
about $685. 900.
Miss Sterling has model farm
at Aylesford, n. s, to which she
brings destitute children from Scot
land and educates them to trades She
has gristmill, sawmill, and various
workshops on the place, and generally
mas about one hundred little waits in
training for useful lives.
-Gottlieb Won Klackenberg. a South
African boer, has two racing ostriches.
One of them has developed speed of
twenty-five miles an hour and has a
stride of fourteen feet. The breeding
of ostriches for racing purposes has
been seriously interfered with by the
passage of an anti-betting law by the
English government
When the late Oliver Wendell
Holmes was in the zenith of his career
an anonymous writer sent to him a few
lines of verse and asked DIR. Holmes
opinion as to the worth while of the
writer's continuing to write poetry.
Yes, by all means" replied the auto
crat- His correspondent was Bret
Harte, then a California newspaper re-
porter.
In the life of the late Dean Buck
land, which has just appeared in En-
gland, it is related that one time ''he
aud friend riding toward London on
a very dark night, lost their way.
auckland therefore dismounted. and.
taking up handful of earth. smelled
it. 'Uxbridger he exclaimed. his geo
logical nose telling him the precise
locality"
Mrs Levi P. Morton is rich
woman in her own right. having in
hcrited fortune from her father. She
was Miss Street and her girlhood was
passed amid all the luxury that money
could procure. She is fine musician
and an accomplished linguist- More
than that, she is an agreeable and
beautiful woman, with charming man
ners- Her flock of young daughters
are equally as interesting and give
promise of being ornaments to society
when they are brought out"
One Of the brightest women in
Washington is the wife Of /. s Bart
lett, who is Representative Coffeen's
private secretary and a well known
politician of Wyoming. Mrs Bartlett
enjoys the distinction of being the only
woman in the United States to be voted
for in legislature for United States
senator. She was given the house
clerkship OF the Wyoming Legislature
and when that body engaged n a dead
lock over the senatorship about year
ago the FIVE poPulist members cast
their votes for Mrs Bartlett. amid
great applause from the galleries