The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-09-12
PERSONALS.
versal.

ASp2Ew HUNTER. ESQ. TIE famous old WhIg
orator, who prosecuted John brown Is stiu living
In Lyncbburg, Vs in his eighiy-frst year. He is
q cousin OF General David Hunter, who camo 80
near IynchtuEg during the War. and treated his
cousin Andrew As ne did many other Ylrginia3s,
by burning him oct OF house and home,
coEREsPoS DENT who recently met Mr. ara
Mrs. Beecher on their travels ssys Of the latter that
"she Is lot vinegar cruet nor an ACID bottle;
neither Is she thin, angular ard sour. That's all
mistake. She Is an sged, aeshy woman, with q
kind and benevolent face, and carries ner ace with
liehtDess. She appears ia excellent heal h, and
dlesses as q sensible cd Lady should-camfO.tebIy
and plain"
TuR birthplace OF George Washington is at tho
inner side OF a peslaSUla having for its water
boundary Malta Creek. the Potomac River and
PoPe's Greek. The house IN which Washington
vsS born stood on projection which Ia now called
Burnt Houte Point. A road leads down 70 Bridge
Creek Landing, little less than two miles distant
where. II Is probsble, steamboat whssf VIII be
built, In order that the spot may be more easily ac
cesslble.
Ne. SAMUEL J. TIIDES hes hlEed John R1gcl's
yecht, the Yosemite. for the aext thirty days II
the Yosemite proves success IN the estimation Of
Mr.. Tilden at the end OF that time the sum Of 2o0
co VIII be paid for II. Recently the Yosemite
tOck up to GTeystOre Lord Darlington, M. Thomas
Barring. and Colonel Barring, who srrlved on the
Gsllis- They were cntertsired by Eir. Ttlden, AID
returned TO New York City in the egcGiag In time
10 Leave for the Vest.
SAID Emory Storrs in group OF rich men at SAY
stogR: You fellows think yourselves highly es
sential. Have you observed that there arc only
rich Uen CT antiquity whoe homes survive?
(srract
Diver, who was fortunately associated with pau
per-" Before the laDguor followins this remark
bad subsidized. SsoTrs ADDED: How manyes well.
known fellows as YOU were sitting 10 Athens once
obst rvins that that o. scure cuSy, Phi6isa was q
lcrg time doirg that orns mental work up stairs?'
MRS. DAvTSroET stu holds very g7ea. play
which belonged to the late T. L. Davenport ent!-
tied Cromwell" The gifted tragedisn was TO
have produced IL in New York at the end OF tho
September IN which he died, and entertained faItn
in SIS attaining immense success. Mrs. Davenport
has the play, all TIE parts and music, also very
many pictures bearing upon tubjects which were
collected By her husband. "CFomwell' was writ
ten for Nh. Davenport by literary light Of Bsln.
more.
WHHE Judge Black was reporter OF the Su-
pIeDe Court Of Pennsylvania be was asked one
Gay By the Governor how he managed in reporting
srgumentsin cases when he himself was employed
q counsel. as he oiien was it being the duty of
the reporter to give abstract OF the argument OF
the counsel. II am Ike Doctor johnson, as he
said Of himself whom he reported the debates OF
the British Parliement," answered the Judge.
~ always manage 10 make the rsscally Wings get
little the worst Cf It,"
BARoN REIcHESBAcH, afler devotn, many years
TO the question ss TO the proper position CT the
tody with reference - the points OF The Compass
during sleep. came 10 the conclusion that persons
ought 10 lie with their feet TO the equator. The
Baron Is taken 80 task by B)stol naturalist, who
says that nature. without any exception. provides
her creatures with instinct that leads them to do
the very thirS that is Necessary for their life AID
well teing. Why. he ssks. Ii aeertain position in
TeEsTd the eaTths surface is ncedful for health
and long ife should nature have left her creatures
In this instance uDproYiced with an instinct that
would prompt them 20 take uncoDsciously this
rig BIT POSITION? IL st Is possible however, for
10 propose some things that would bsfIls even
nature. What. for instance, does the Boston natur-
alisi think sn instact such as lie speaks OF would
prtfii turkey gobbleT that should try TO sleep In
an apple tree top, with his head toward the North
POLE on a night when the wind was blowing 81 the
rate OF thirty i've miles an hour from the South?