The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-09
PURLOINED PLUMES.

| Spain has apologized at last. Secretary
Oiney can safely accept the portfolio of
| the state department and take things
| easy.
| Lord Rosebery, who is a collector Of odd
| kinds Of relics, recently invested in some
| slave chains and man trap Of old slavery
| days.
st. Louis and Kansas City now have a
registration law. 1t ought to keep both
of them in the Republican column by shut
ting out the repeaters.
Signor Bonomi, of the Panama canal
engineers, who was in New Orleans re-
emily, said that work would begin on the
canal on a large scale about July L
In a recent address before a woman's
meeting in San Francisco, the Rev. Anna
Shaw of Boston, advocated the appoint
ment of women on police boards. and ex-
pressed the belief that such a policy would
promote good morals.
Miss Powderly, the American secretary
to Lady Henry Somerset, is not related
to the agitator. She is a New England
woman with a college education, whose
talents and abilities are many. She is a
linguist, musician, Stenographer and type
writer. besides very beautiful penman.
Professor Crouch. OF the Kathleen Ma
voureen" fame, remembers Queen Victoria
as a girl of or years. He was at this
time in the British royal household as the
'cellist in the band. The band was abol-
ished by the reform bill passed in the early
thirties. Professor Crouch played the
cello at the queens coronation. He came
to the United States In lS49
The old Astor residence, which is being
torn down to make way for John Jacobs
big hotel. was erected in 1854 for William
Astor. This block takes up on Fifth
avenue 100 feet and con Thirty-fourth
street 175 feet. In addition to this seven
additional houses, numbering from to IA
inclusive, are being torn down. making
the total frontage on the avenue 100 feet
and on Thirty-fourth street $50 feet.
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New York may be for Governor Morton
in the next Republican national conven-
ton, but New York has never yet won
when she had a candidate in Republican
convention. She supported Seward in
1860 and Lincoln was nominated: Coifk-
ling in 1876 and Hayes was the nominee;
Depew in 1883 and Harrison was the can
didate. If Morton is the New York can
man to win?
General Bushnell. the Republican candi-
date for governor of Ohio. says that he is
for Mckinley for president in 1896, and
that he will stand by him through thick
and thin" The Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette adds to Bushnell's statement that
nineteen men out of every twenty in Ohio
are at heart Mckinley men. and that the
Ohio delegation IN the next convention
will be made up of earnest Mckinley men.
This ought to satisfy the Democrats that
il is folly for them to count on Republic
can split in the Buckeye state next No
venber.
Queen Victoria, by the way, was much
such girl as the young queen of Holland
is now, and between the present queen OF
England and her mother there were many
such disputes as are reported between the
two queens of Holland Yet, although
after Victoria became reigning queen she
failed TO show her mother, the Duchess
of Kent. much respect, in all other re-
CARDS she has been a model monarch. Thus
there is some reason TO hope that the I'M |
pulsive girl queen Of Holland VIII soften |
with age.