The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-23
GENERAL NOTES.


GENERAL NOTES.
LORD DUNMoRE the musical Earl, is coming
10 America to stay month.
For weeks past the mortality OF London has
been only twenty to the 1000.
BRET HARTE is to give his first lecture in
London on Friday of next week.
SIR GEORGE GARNET WoLsELEY rode $40
miles in three days in South Africa.
THE bearded woman who used to be with
Barnum is now in an insane asylum.
THE ladies of Little Rock have a building
association, and $4,000 have been subscribed.
THE city of Bunalo, N. ", has placed $4,000
of four and half per cent. bonds at sl,U236 50
per $1,000.
TIE cyclone shook Delaware peach trees
severely, but there is fruit enough on them
yet to give the market an average supply.
Mrs. SENATOR WINDOW is described as a
clever woman-one so wise and accomplished
that she is herssn the sole instructor OF her
children.
KING GEORGE, of Greece, is said to be
charming person, bright. liberal-m inded and
witty. He is an excellent husband and a ju-
dicious father to his young sons, the Dukes of
Athens, Sparta and CoriRth.
A WHITE widower married a black widow at
Cape Glrardeau. Mo. He had four white chill
dren, she had five black ones, and three yell
low ones have been born to them since. The
family presents a varied aspect.
THOMAS JEFFERsoS's heirs have agreed to
relinqufsh the Durying grounds at Monticello
TO the Government, with the understanding
that Jeffersons grandchildren shall find
-, tho In0
Mr.. STURGEON has received from daughter
of DIR. Livingstone one of his sermons which
was found among her fathers possessions.
bearing upon 1t some words of commentator
in the handwriting of the explorer.
IN accordance with custom 2S7 years old,
sixty of the younger boys at Christs Hospital
School, London, received on Good Friday,
after church service, new penny and a
packet OF raisins from the church warden.
The custom was established by Peter Symonds
in 1893, who left a bequest for its maintenance.
MILE. SARAH BERNHARDT does not look
exceedingly strong, but few even of the
strongest of her sex could support the labor
through which she goes. One Saturday re-
Gently, after playing in an afternoon and an
evening performance, she rehearsed "Frou
Frou" from II p. m. until o'clock the next
morning.
GENERAL KAUFMAN has just presented to
the Geological Garden of Moscow hairless
horse of Central Asia. The animal belongs to
the by bred species and is considered great
rarity. II is well formed, but its skin isred
and without the slightest trace of hair, and in
cold Moscow 1t has to be covered with
blankets. fa tr
A LITTLE boy in Worcester, Mass, who six
a mix of mi ar
sulphuric acid, which caused severe irritation
of the throat and stomach and nearly cost him
his life, has been ill. with similar symptoms
at about the same time each year since. The
regular recurrence of the trouble is a puzzle to
the physicians.
Miss TURNER, the young lady who made an
appointments with her lover at Georgevtlle, o.
with the intention of eloping with him, and
who reached the spot just in time tosee him
shot by an unknown assassin, has arrived in
Columbus, and expresses the belief that her
father, who was bitterly opposed to the match
is the murderer.
AN ourang outang lately exhibited at Munich
amazed people by its skill on the violin, until
one evening q doubling visitor stuck pen
knife into it, and, as this had no effect, pulled
its tail, which came of, bringing along piece
OF hide. The disguise had defed detection for
week The wearer was the father OF the
exhibitor OF the prodigy.
Miss ANNA e. DICKINSON will, 1t is reported,
reappear upon the stage in the autumn in her
play, "The Crown of Thorns." The scene of
her new play, intended for Miss Davenport, is
laid in Russia; the time is fifty years ago. and
the heroine is an English Jewess. Miss Dick
insan has also been at work upon a comedy
drama called "Elfrida, or the Test of Honor
LONDON Lancet is boldly lighting for seats for
girls who attend in stores; and, In order to
hasten the work and give a practical shape to
its agitation, it declares its intention to pub
fish lists OF the names of Those houses which at
once, furnish seats. These lists Will be given
TO physicians, who Will show them to their
families the ladies' of which will be asked not
to trade at stores that for want of seats are
"eruel to women"
Mr.. CYRUS H. MCCORMICK renews his youth
wonderfully for an old man. 1t was a genera
ton ago that he became famous for his reap
ers, Yet he now holds his own control Of the
Western market by putting in the field new
reaper, with self-binding attachment, which
stin seems to lead all Others. He has recently
finished one Of the finest houses in Chicago for
his private residence-with ample space about
It. with broad halls, lofty ceilings, hard wood
finish by Narcotic, well-chosen library
which Mr.. Greeley In his last years helped
him to select. aud a handsome room at the
top for musicals, private theatricsls and the
ike. At the age Of seventy.one, the lively
young old man gives the fondest paternal at.
tention to his two youngest children, aged
about four and six, while one OF his oldest