The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-26
PERSONAL NOTES.

mier in Japan, that when a youth he
| wandered about the streets of London
penniless, ragged and hungry, a starving
alien in a strange land.
Henry James, the novelist is about to
revisit the United States after an alb
scence OF twenty-five years He intends
to make a long stay and subsequently
win publish his experiences and impress
sions of the United States in book form.
II is announced that Mrs Joseph
Chamberlain, wife of the British colonial
secretary is coming 10 the United States
this year for protracted visit with her
relatives the Endicotts of Salemn, Mass,
which is Mrs. Chamberlain birthplace.
Benjamin Franklin was a Bostonian.
Samuel f. B. Morse and Ellis Howe were
New Workers. The Maxims are Maine
men. Calling was born in Virginia and
Thomas A. Edison the inventor, first
saw light in Ohio.
Elsie Ward, the young New York artist
who recently won the 500 commission 10
make a drinking fountain for the st.
Louis worlds fair grounds. made her first
models and mud pies from water and clay
on her fathers Missouri farm. She was
born in Harvard county and lived there
till fey years ago.
1t is said that after his retirement from
the army Lieutenant General Miles will
make his permanent home in either Louis
lana or Texas. He mas recently been
looking over those states with the view
OF purchasing an estate upon which the
may spend the declining years OF his life
in ease and comfort Should the general
decide to locate in the south it Will be
largely because of Ex-Governor Hogs
efforts. The big Texan and the old sol
der nave been close friends for many
years.
The late Queen Victoria. though she had
literary ambitions and was as talented as
became a Queen, was not known as a
wit. says the Philadelphia Ledger. Her
one recorded joke, however, is a good
one and should be preserved The story
goes that the aged Duke of wellington,
having paid his sovereign a visit on
very wet day, she anxiously inquired
what boots ne was wearing THE peo-
pie call them WeHingtens," said the duke.
What nonsense" exclaimed the Queen.
Where. I should like 10 know, could you
find pair of Wellingtons?"
The late B. +. Jones some thirty years
ago was partner and bookkeeper in a
Pittsburg firm that conducted a small
forging shop a few thousand dollars
comprised the firms entire capital. An
employee ore day in a moment of care
leSsness, while directing the course Of a
white-hot ingot of iron through the roll
ers allowed his cold teel tongs 10 be
drawn along with the half-rotten metal.
The result was a pair OF ruined tongs,
but the discovery of a process by which
a superior grade OF steel could be pro-
duced. The workmans accident became
the basis of the fortune of s50.000,0O0 of
which MIR. Jones died possessed.
The New York bar has new member.
His name is Robert Hamilton Hibbard.
He has earned his own living since he
was thirteen. Eight years ago he got,
through Theodore Roosevelt, an appoint
ment TO the police force. All his spare
time since then he has devoted to study.
His mother "a classmate of Emma Will
lard) helped him in Latin. a Column
bia undergraduate helped him in his ge
ometry, etc, coming down to the precinct
station for the purpose. His brother cops
did all they could TO make things as easy
for him as possible, and so did his su-
perior officers and the magistrates. He
put himself on ration OF five hours
sleep, passed the regents examination,
attended the law lectures. got his LIB.
in 1892. got his LIN. this year and
and passed his bar examination a few
years ago. 3"When l hang out my shingle
to get my books on my office Shelves
he says, there are some I shall prize
more than the others. They are the
ones I have had rebound, the ones 1tore
up and folded and carried the leaves
about with me, so that l could study on
the way to duty or when out on a boat