The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-07

something OF an Invalid" She seems 10 be.
NILE DIsELLI. the most popular actress of the
Palais Royal Theater. Paris, has become insane.
In the middle of a new COMEDY, wnen the audi
ence was perfectly quiet and attentive, she
turned TO the other players and said: DO you
hear how they hiss met / can not finish this
piece" Next day she tried to kill herself, and
had to be tskes to an Asylum.
ONE of the surviving ''Forty-niners." Levi
Farnsworth, Of Jonesboro, Nc, returned 10 his
old home few days ago after absence Of thir-
ty-three years. He sailed for the Pacific coast in
November, 1919. leaving behind him his wife and
six children, all OF whom were living to greet
him on his return except one daughter, who died
twenty years ago.
FASHIONABLE intelligence in the English Court
Chronicle: Her Majesty is expecting an &C
csssion of grandchildren. An interesting event is
about to occur within year of the lsst) in the
family of the Duke of Connaught; another-about
month later-in that OF the Duke of Albany;
md yet another in that of the Duke of Edin-
hurgh."
BOSTON CoRHETT, the man who killed the assas.
sin Booth, is living in Kansas engaged in The cat.
tie business. He has become a RELIGIOUS enthu-
ssst. and in a recent letter to friend in Camden
he says that he has been directed by God to infiict
daily corporal punishment upon himself as
penance for having taken human life.
Miss EMMA WIxoM, otherwise Mile Nevada.
this year receives 81 Oo0 per month for singing in
opera I'm Paris. Next year her contract calls for
81 100 per month, and in the following year 81 20c
per month. By the expiration of her present con-
tract she will thus have earned sS9. 600 at the
Opera Comique. Then she will come home to
America to make some more.
WHEN John EcholtZ died at Urbana, O., he left
behind him the aecumulations Of forty years. On
his farm were 10000 bushels of barley. thousands
of bushels Of corn partly rotted, old horses that
had never known harness. vehicles with solid
wheels cut from logs, and among the curiosities
was an old pump mounted on wheels like can.
non.
Mrs. VANDERBILT. widow of the Commodore,
gave luncheon party in New York, the other
day, to thirty ladies' ten of whom belonged to the
Vanderbilt family. 1t was a very elaborate lunch,
and each guest received q bunch of roses tied
with wide, white satin ribbon, on which was her
name in letters of gold Mrs. Vanderbilt laugh
ingly denies her reported engagement to General
BeauregGrd.
AFTER Berlin, Mr.. Edwin Booth will visit
Cologne. Bremen. Leipzig Hanover and Vienna.
Some one advised him TO include Dresden in bis
list because there are 20 many Americans there;
whereupon re replied: "If my object wss to ap-
pear before Americans might have remained in
America" The plan of acting in Berlin was first
suggested to him by the famous German actor
Dawson II 1866, when he repeatedly appeared in
New York with Booth in the same play.
MRS. EMMA B. DRExEL, wife of Francis A.
Drexel, of Philadelphia, who died last Monday
night, was noted for her extensive philanthropy.
She paid the rent of more than $50 families and
distributed among the poor over $4,000 a year.
She employed a woman to institute inquiry into
the merits of each applicant, and once every
week dispensed groceries, clothing ana money to
the poor, who gathered every Tuesday in the rear
her residence.
WRITES the correspondent OF Life Nondon):
miss Lillian NordIcs. the American prima
donna, made her appearance as 'Ophelia' in
Hamlet at the Grand Opera the other night
French critics complain of her strong American
accent and slightly cultural voice; on the other
hand, they admit that her arms and hands are
above repIoach, aud that her eyes, teeth and
smile are not uninteTesting"
A REMARKABLE saying Of Gambetta's is quoted
by Paris correspondent: 'when Littre died
some friends were Indignantly deploring in Gam
betta's presence the weakness or treachery which
had induced the illustrious ssvant to profess
Christianity on his death bed Who can tell?' re-
marked Ganbetts, lifting his arm ana letting 1t
fall on the arm of his chair. 'perhsps LittTe did
right after all. 1t is great up (pile on face)
what lies on the other side of DEATH"
A YOUNG woman in Bradford County. Pennsyl-
vania, went before aJustice Of the Peace with the
man of her choice and several witnesses, and
made herself wife, satisfactorily to herself by
simple promise of fidelity, claiming nothing from
her spouse as legal right. and insisted upon no
There were no vows given under the
form OF the law, and no pledges. The Justice
took no part in the marriage, and sat in the room
only as a witness.
IN Switzerlsnds lofty mountains the Alpine
horn, which sounds also the far-famed RAM des
vaches, when the sun has set, is taken by the
herdsman and through 1t he loudly pronounoes
the words praise the Lord God" At the sound
all the herdsmen issue from their tents and take
up the cry. At-the last darkness falls and the
highest herdsmsn calls GOOD night" and GOOD
night again resounds from all the mountains
and rocky cliffs
The Massachusetts legislators elect annually
clergyman to preach a sermon before their sue
cessors. This election is not very reverentially
conducted. Last Thursday they made high
joke of the work, voting for Ben Butler. Bob In
yerson and others. while twenty-f Jur voted for
! lay associate who had previously urged the
abolition OF the sermon and the accompanying
parade of cadets. The preacher selected was
Boston Baptist parson, for whom printed ballots
had been circulated.
OF the Princess Won Hohenlohe, who is dead
,hot, IL is related that she was recently. accom-
panied by her daughter and the Princess Won
Ratibor. stalking deer in the woods Schloss
Rsuden, when suddenly a fun-grown wild boar
dashed at her from the left, and at the same mo-
ment roRbuck in full career crossed in front OF
her. The Princess raised her rifle, knocked over
he buck with her right barrel, and then gave the
boar her left. The fierce animal turned over al
most at her feet.
THE Oldest member OF the Ohio Legislature is
senator Moses II. Kirby, of Wysndot. He Is
sighty-hve years old. and was originally great
sdmirer OF John Adams. He served In the Legis-
ature In 1927 and is now in the Senate after q
apse of nearly half century. Mr.. Kirby was
born in Halifax County, Va, in May, 179s Wash
pgton was then living at Mount Vernon. He
went to Ohio in 1915. locating a: Hillsboro. He
Carolina. on the Virginia line. 1t required ten
lays on horseback to get to the college seat
THE Graphic thus de -cribes the quail-eating per
Iormance of Mr.. Walcott; "A stranger, unaware
Of the cause. aud seeing one man thus silently
eating aud forty other men standing by and as