The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
CURRENT NOTES.


cred his health as to be able to attend to his usual
duties aud he promises to occupy his Senatorial
chair again this week.
MAScERo. the famous Mexican brigsnd, was
found with twenty-six bullets in his carcass. He
probably blundered upon some Kentucky gentle
man travelling in Mexico.-Boston Post.
Miss ANNIE LOUISE CARY will retire from the
stage next month. She doesn't wait, as some
popular singers do, till her voice sounds like
cracked fog horn. but leaves her audiences with
memories that can not fail TO be naturally pleas
ant on both sides of the fOotlights-U nion-Argus.
ERNST HAEcKLE. Germany's great disciple OF
Darwin, is now in Egypt on his way home from
Ceylon During his four months stay in that
island his explorations were favored by excep-
tionally fine weather The fauna of the island
did no, met his expectations, but of its fora he
speaks only in terms of unqualified admiration
aud delight.
To san Francisco gentleman who is collecting
autographs for the benefit of the proposed Union
Veterans Home in that city, jefferson Davis
wrote: ''You were not mistaken in supposing
would sympathize with an effort to provide for
veteran soldiers who. having served their
country in its need have come to need their
country's service"
AFTER his experience with them during his
voyage OF the Beagle" Darwin pronounced the
Patsgonians to be race degraded below posi-
bility of improvement But thirty years later
on learning of the changes wrought by English
missionaries there he frankly admitted his mis-
take and became q contributor 10 the funds of the
South American Missionary Society.
MADAME JASAUscHEK had a narrow escape in a
sine at Leadville few days ago. While descend
| ing the shaft tn car caught upon a projection,
and the alarmed engineer, finding the ropes had
slackened, reversed his engine and brought the
car 10 the surface. 1t was found that the siding
of the shaft had given way, and that If the had
not been stopped by one of the fallen timbers its
occupants must have been killed by falling debris
BISHOP GREEN, of Mississippi. who has been
presiding over a council of the Episcopal Church
at Vicksburg is eighty-iour years old and has
been preacher for sixty-two years. He is now,
and has been for thirteen years past, the Chan
cellor of the University of the South, and is the
sole SURVIVOR of the ten Southern Bishops who
founded that institution in 1850. His mental
faculties are still remarkably vigorous for one Of
his age.
A FRENCH collector of bric-a-brac recently in a
Rouen curiosity shop, stumbled upon two auto
graphs of the First Napoleon. They are inclosed
in an oval medallion Of black wood, and read as
follows: "Relic-Private letter from Napoleon tc
Prince Eugene. Brought from st. Helena by DR.
o'Meara in the sole of his shoe. Should he see
my good LOUISE beg she will permit him to kiss
her hand. The 26th July 1918. Napoleon" And
on the other side " Z" / hope that Lascases will
see that this obligation is repaid Ia some way OF
another 5th January, 1918. Napoleon"
LORD FREDERICK CAvENDIsH left no children
His wife. charming woman. has two sisters liv
ing, one married to Mr.. Talbot. member for tn
University Of Oxford. the other to his brotke
Warden OF Keble College Oxford. Lady Fred
erick's grandmother, the Dowager Lad Lyttle
ton Qneen vic.oria's gOverness, was sister 10 Ear
Spencers father. Lady F. Cavendish has had more
than one shock OF late years. Her father, whose
mind OF late years gave way, threw himself ovel
the banisters of his house aud was killed, and Il
was at a dinner party at her house that the late
Duchess OF Argyll was seized with an Illness
which in few hours proved fatal. Besides LORD
Harrington, a bachelor. the Duke of Devonshirt
has only one son. Lord Frederick Cayendishi
bone was almost opposite Mr. Gladstone's former
abode on Carlton House Terrace.
NINE. CHRlsTISE NILSSON made her first public
appearance on Saturday. May Is. since the death
of her husband. The occasion operati,
! concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and
there was a tremendous crowd present. 1t hac
been announced that she would be seen in cos
tune In the garden scene from Faust but a
the last moment she concluded that she could no
{ appear In costume SO soon after NJ. Rouzaud's de
) mise. So the scene sung In evening dress
Nine Nilsson appearing in black silk. with I
square neck and long sleeves. She seemed rathe
paler than when 1 last her In New York, bu
: somewhat stouter. The music Of Marguerite
sang she had never before sung 1t in public
Her execution Ia. II possible, finer than it wa,
when he was last heard in America and on Sat
urday she seemed to have overcome for the tint
that GOODNESS which formerly characterized al
her work. Those who have said she never wa
in such voice as at present are unquestionably
light.