The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-17
PURLOINED PLUMAGE.


The Journal des Debats has sustained
serious loss by the death of its editor.
NJ. Georges Patinot, at the age OF 81. He
was barrister, and after serving in 1870
in the Garde Mobile, during the Prussian
invasion, he became chef de ca b.net OF the
prefecture Of the police ait Paris He
was subsequently project OF three de-
partments in succession and in 1854, hay-
ing married a granddaughter of Armand
Berlin, he became editor of the Debats.
a post he filled with activity and talent
till his death. The issuing of morning
and evening edition of the paper was due
TO him.
Ex-senator conger of Michigan. who If
teen years ago was one of the leaders of
the Republican party. is now poor man.
living in Washington. Two years ago
Mrs. Conger died, leaving the aged sena-
tor an annuity of 800 month The ex-
ecutors of the estate, it seems. however,
have not paid the annuity for almost a
year. The other day he won his suit.
and the courts ordered the executors 10
pay the money due or go TO jail. Mr..
Conger is now "a years old. One or the
greatest speeches which he ever delivered
was that Of the Chicago convention in
1850.
Inc lTleNuS OF Sdlulle MeNueS arc Stii'~
ing to get him into the French Academy.
regardless of the fact that the moral
standard which barred lola out is appli-
cable to him. Mendes has as handsome
a head as there is in Paris. He has a
fondness for the life his erotic pen por-
trays and he possesses the Bohemian
characteristics of the free-and-easy
French writers of the last generation.
The early morning hours find him in the
center of a crowd of hilarious spirits In
some brassesie.
To a reporter who hunted him up TO
ask him about the lecture he is preparing
for delivery next winter, ex-Governor
Bob Taylor of Tennessee, said: Il have
a nice home six acres of brood lands.
garden, a loving wife, and six good chill
dren. 1 don't care for riches. All / de-
sire is 10 go out occasionally and gather
in few shekels for my family. To ST.
here under these trees in the summer, 10
study and read is bliss complete. Gov
ernor Taylor's new lecture is TO be on
Dixie"
NJ. Louis vossiou, the French consul a;
Philadelphia, upon whom has been con-
ferred the cross of the Legion OF Honor,
fought in the Franco-Prussian war, being
severly wounded at Gravelotte, and after
ward served in the consular service al
Mandelay and Rangoon, in Burmah. and
at Khartoum. For many years he has
| been stationed at Philadelphia. He i:
a contributor to the Nouvelle Revue ant
has written a work on the constitution Of
| the United States.
William II. English, who has been los
| to view politically since he ran for The
vice presidency on the ticket with Han
| cock in $780, is a lively old man of 70. with
abundant energy left him. He is putting
il TO good use in writing a history of In
| diana.
Miss Abbie Gardner. the only living sur
vivor of the famous Sioux massacre al
Lake Okoboji, Ia, in 1886, has secured
from the Iowa legislature an appropria-
ton of 600 for a monument TO mark the
spot, which will be dedicated next month.
Joseph r. Stearns of Camden. Me-. who
died recently at the age of 60 years. was
the inventor of the famous duplex sys-
TEN of telegraphy. He had the larges,
collection of carved worries in the world
and was also a Bibliomaniac.
The white marble house of George w
Childs has it's windows boarded UP and q
sign of For Sale on 1t. 1t is a house
| that has sheltered more famous people
| than any other residence in Philadelphia
William Penn Stedman, who was the
| man to capture jefferson Davis when he
was about to make his escape. is en-
ployed in one of the departments in Wash
ington.
Mrs. A. S. Palmer. who died at Cleve-
land recently, was in her youth instructor
~ l. q
taught the future president his alphabet.
The car OF Russia is said TO be a
great novel reader, and reads books In
English French and German, as well as
in his native tongue.