Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


-1Tiss Irene Langhorne, the hanceo
of Mr.. C. D. Gibson. is famed for lovll-
ness throughout the south. Shels one
of the four noted southern beauties
commonly known in Washington as
1.-THE Four Graces."
Chief Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court said the other
dav in the course of an interview: III
we want to live to green old age we
should stay in harness. The dry rot
of aimlessness eats out existence"
No member OF the duke of Argyle's
family attended his recent wedding to
his third wife. The new duchess, by
the way. was once before engaged, and
her betrothed died on the day fixed for
the wedding. He left her large for
tune.
-Steinitz, the chess player, some
times becomes so absorbed in consider
ing a problem that he will stand still
in the most crowded thoroughfare. 1t
is related of him that on one occasion
he caused such an obstruction that a
policeman told him to move on. "Ex-
cuse me-" replied the champion, abb
sently, but it is your move"
Within a short time there will ara
rive in New York Rev. Maskazoo Tai,
one of the most eminent scholars OF
Japan. who has come to this country
to study the social, political and re-
ligious principles of American civiliZa-
tion. Mr.. Tai is an Episcopal clergy
man and belongs to what was known
in Japan twenty-five years ago as the
soldier caste.
Boston has a lighthouse keepers
daughter who, perhaps, has not emu
lated Ida Lewis, yet she is an accom-
plished oarswoman as we'll as ver-
satile writer. Miss Louise Lynden has
lived with her father on that beauti-
full headland for nearly fifteen years,
and although graduate of the Bos-
ton Girls high school in 1879, has pre-
ferred to keep herself on the island
summer and winter, ever since her
father was appointed as keeper of the
complished photographer, and many
of her charming stories are illustrated
by her own pictures.
"A citizen of Traverse City, Mich,
is afflicted with an odd and embarrass-
ing physical popularity. At irregular
intervals he falls into a trance-like
state, which continues for uncertain
periods, and from which it is impossi-
BILE to arouse him. The longest spell
of the kind lasted ninety-four hours.
While in this comatose condition he is
to all appearances lifeless, although
usually he is entirely conscious OF
everything going on about him. The
doctors have been unable to help him,
and while his friends know of his LA
bility to the attacks, he naturally feels
some nervousness about stirring far
| from home.
No better instance of good fortune
coming through sheer luck could be
found, perhaps, than in the experience
of a prospector named Mahoney, near
Kalispell, Mont, recently. Having
nothing whatever to do one afternoon,
he, out of pure fancy, as an idle BOY
would throw stones at mark, drilled
a hole into projecting hunk of rock
and put in a shot, intending to blow
out a ton or so of it just to see things
fly. When the blast was made he
found that he had broken into treas
ure house. There was big pocket in
the rock the sides of which sparkled
with almost pure gold. There was
enough in sight to net Mahoney
handsome sum, and if the mine proves
as rich as the surface showing indr
Gates he has struck a bonanza.