The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-21

wife. On the contrary. be impoverished him.
self TO employ sentries to guard her grave from
the prowling resurectionisis. He says IL was his
funeral. but IL he is molested any more about 1t
1t viii be the funeral OF somebody else pretty
quick.
IT is on record of Mr.. Mfllais the English artist
that at the age of ten he lifted to q form to
receive q medal he had gained by so early q pro-
duction of his pencil. gentleman relates that
he recently saw in q house at Pullman quaint
and by no means ineffective pencil portrait Of
lady. with the words underneath. 81. E. Millais
etat s."
Mr.. LETTER. the Chicago millionaire, says the
Washington Capital. is q nply able to keep up the
Blaine establishment a scale betting its
magnificent proportions He Is the phoenix
City's'' Stewart, and, in fact was one of the New
York merchants most formidable rivals during
the latter's lifetime. His fortune is estimated al
from s.. 900 COO to s1o.oO0.OOo
COUNT Won MoLTKE seldom smokes after dinner.
a meal which he always makes simple one at
home. The form in which he uses tobacco Is
SNUFF, and when at work he always has his box at
his side. He is said not to be proud of his past
in the sense of being inflated by its success
and splendor. What he has done he looks upon
simply as performance of duty,
GUsrAvE FoULD. the son @: the wellknown
French Minister OF Finance under the Second
Empire was recently removed to an insane
asylum. Fould is one OF the most notorious char
acters of Partisan society. Years ago his family
had him placed under guardian to prevent him
from squaEdering the last remnants Of fortune
which was once estimated at II 1000. 600 francs.
Miss ANDERSON is not likely to be readily for
gotten in England. Twenty-Five thousand of her
photographs, taken since her arrival in England,
have been sold, and Mr.. Van der Weyde to whom
alone she has sat. has prepared photograph OF
heroic size of "the Grecian maiden" This
measures eight feet by three, carbon and is there
fore permanent. This enlargement. on the great
est scale ever taken, is remarkable for perfection
Of the half tones aud purity of the light.
AT Berwyn. an unpretentious little station few
miles west of Philadelphia, almost any day in
summer or fall one may see step from the train
"countrifed"-looking man. past middle age, with
a heavy. corpulent figure clad in an almost seedy
suit and crowned with worn and battered hat.
His boots are heavy and clumsy; his shoulders
stoop like those of plowman; his face is broad
an brown. He is not farmer. however but a
Philadelphia politician of National reputation
Samuel J. Randsll.
''SoME very roseate pictures, says the Cleveland
Leader, appeared in several papers about the
time of General steedman's funeral at Toledo.
having his home for a suoject. But the truth is
sad one steedman left young wife with five
children to care for. and no property. Three OF
these children were theirs, one an infant The
other two Steedman's grand children. His
son Lewis was n soldier. whose wife died some
seven or eight years ago. Lew died year later
and left the children to the care of their grand.
aiher. II was then that he married to make a
home for them. There is no provision for them"
BISHOP wiNGFIELD toldthe General Episcopal Con
ventiOn Phi adelphia very of the eighty
ty mliOnaires OF Sa Fran cisco are disposed to do
anything for the cause OF religion. There are 10 OF
American birth. Is Irish, S Jews. Germans
English and French Only one Il a member OF a
Protestant church. Flood occasionally gives few
thousand dollars TO the poor. and. OF those who
have died, only James Lick has lef; a worthy mon
ument The Bishop quoted froma San Francisco
paper which des cribed the living generally rcis
ers, rascas, or fools. the dead having few of
them gone with the poor to Heaven but as having
rather gone to meet Dives where the climate is
| oppressive and the water scarce"
| "RoscoE CoxKLTSG," remarked Hon. Hamilton
| Spencer prominent lawyer of Bloomington. Ill.,.
the other day. tread law In my Office in Utica, n.
| Y. The firm was composed of my father the late
Joshua Spencer. Francis Herman. ex-United States
| Senator from New York. and myself. Conkling
| entered our Office in 1916. and was quite young
boy but large and tall for his age. He was rather
good -natured, red-faced. wholesome-lookin sort
| OF a fellow. possessing q very fine specimen OF
physical manhood, while there was everything else
| about the young student to indicate good health
| and contentment with the world. Although quick
| to learn and possessing the finest talents young
Conklng was not regarded as being what is called
| very close student but still his mind was capa-
BILE of grasping eagerly the principles OF the law,
| and his e'oquence at the bar won for him many
important suits"
BENJAMIN TAPPAN better known as "Od Ben
| Tappan, of Ohio" was one OF the wittlest men
who has ever sat in the United States Senate, and
! he labored under obliquity of vision greater
than that OF Governor Butler On one occasion,
while holding Court in an interior town in Ohio
the Prison or County Jail of which constructed
of logs, as he passing sentence upon the usual
number convicted Of petty offenses againstthe law,
an inebriate individual in the customary crowd oil
spectators sung out: THAT'S right, give it to him,
old gimlet eye." "Who is that?' sternly demanded
the Court his sinister eye indignantly flashing FIRE
''Irs the old hoss, Judge" exclaimed the offender
against "the peace and dignity of the State" "Mr
Sheriff." promptly responded the dignitary with
the italic eye stake that Old horse to the stable
lock MIN up and keep him without hay, oats OF
drink for twenty-four hours" which mandate was
4 forthxvith ohavad