The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-17
PERSONALS.

cent. by year OF abstinence.
MISS ANNE Whitney, the sculptor of the
Harriet Martinesu statue in Boston, owns a
farm of 175 acres, and is an accomplished
farmer.
\ TEXAN is suing a side-showmsn because
the placard promised living two-headed
calf, while the reality was a stuffed and
fraudulent hide.
Mr.. W. II. VANDERBILT as the alleged rich
est man in the world must now yield to the
Canton banker, Hau Qua, with 81, 400, 10000
and hankering for more.
Mrs. A. NJ. EDGIHGToN, of Butte, Mon, the
fs--famed widow of the Coeur Alene' gold
mines, is the mother of the actress Lillian
EdgiDgton, and weighs nearly 400 pounds.
BISHOP CRowTHER, England's black Bishop
of Africa, was made q slave in battle be-
tween African chiefs fifty years ago. He was
sold for rum to SLAYER and then captured
by an English cruiser.
PRESIDENT J. H. SEELYE of Amherst Col
lege, thinks best on the whole to decline
running as Prohibition candidate for Gov
erner Of Observation-Disclosures the committee
Seelye later, as it were.
IT is recalled that Handel the great COM
poser, was a great eater. He would often
order dinner for three and then brighten
the waters half to death by calmly eating
the triple dinner himself
Dr.. DIo LEWIS is out with fresh edict that
babies must not be permitted to sit up be-
cause their backs are weak, but mothers
don't keep EN- up long enough TO hurt 'em
wouldn't let 'em sit up for a week back, at
all events.
PARsoN NEWMAN is now metaphoricslly
making another voyage around the world.
He is anxious, it is said, to get back from
Congregationalism to Methodism, and sees
various channels IN which he thinks he can
be useful.
Mas. president TYLER has left Easthamp-
ton for Riohmand, Va, quite restored in
health. There is a current rumOr that her
beautiful young daughter, Miss Pearl Ty-
ler is soon to be married to a rising young
statesman of Virginia.
Mr.. MUEAT HALsTEAD boasts the largest
family at Long Branch, ten small coming
a very sweet lady, with an extraordinary
head of hair, nearly seven feet in length, of
unusual thickness and beauty.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, who is to help the
British to rescue Chinese Gordon, was once
desperately in love with one of the daughters
of the millionaire Pike, who built the opera
house of that name in Cincinnati. The
&c oh poh
milan became famous.
GEORGE w. CHuDs, OF the Philadelphia
Ledger, performed his last service for the
season as honorary sexton in the church at
Elberon last Sunday, and will close his cot
tage there, going to his residence at Bryn
Mawr, and then removing for the winter to
his marble palace in Philadelphia.
HAELAN was mourned as dead at keighley,
England by relatives and friends, who
thought that they found his body in pond.
| The widow got the money on his life insur-
ance policy, and soon took second husband.
| But Hanlsn has emerged from a hospital
alive and WELL but greatly displeased.
GENERAL w. S. HANCoCK's wife has COM
| posed piece, arranged for an orchestra, to
be dedicated to Sir Moses Montefiors in honor
of his coming centennial birthday, October
90. when also the entire Masonic fraternity,
of which Sir Moses is an honored member,
will take appropriate action commemorative
OF the day.
W. W. CoRcoRAN, the millionaire banker
and philanthropist of Washington, is said to
be exceedingly proud of his ancestry. He
glories in the fact that his father was poor,
honest shoemaker, and he treasures the
cobbler's sign board among his choice pos.
sessions
THE late Henry III. Phillips, of Philadel-
phia, left $4,000 for a fountain in Fair
mount Park, and So, 900 to keep it in repair.
The Park Commissioners wished to place a
statue of him above the fountain, but his
family refused to allow a cast of his features
to be taken.
| A DAUGHTER of George Alfred Townsend
("Gsth') was recently married clandestinely
in Europe to Mr.. Bonaventure, a middle
aged New York bookseller. She is described
as young lady eighteen years old, bright
and interesting and of more than ordinary
| intelligence.
Mr.. b. P. SHILLABEE, in his characteristic
way, relates that when old Jerry Noble, oil
Portsmouth, \. H., was once on the witness
stand, he spoke SO large and at the same time
so vaguely about the extent OF the world be
had seen, that the Judge remarked, ''Mr.
Noble, you have travelled much" "Yes,
sir" said Jerry, ~ have travelled a great
deal, but principally in Buckingham
County,"
CHARLES G. LELAND, now in London,
often struck, in conversation with English
ladies, by their belief in ghosts-particularly
in ancient, hereditary, ancestral ghosts.
When 1--WE have one in our family" they
can not be expected to forego such an oppor-
tunity of reviewing their genealogy. 1t is
owing in part to this responsibility of spec
tres and the 'good FORM of faith in them.
he surmises, that the theosophists, Olcott and
sinnitt, are doing good business in London
| this season.
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