The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-12-24
PERSONALS.

DAvY CRoCRETT's favorits rihs has been
sent from Dandridge to the New Orleans
Exposition.
COLONEL INGERsoLL is said to have made
$4,000 from fifty lectures during the last
two months.
ONE of the NEST startling things revealed
in DR.. Holmes Life of Ralph Waldo Emer-
son" is that the great Yankee poet and phil
Usopher always hsd pie at breakfast.
Nh. HEALEY's portrait Of Longfellow-one
Of the only three paintings Of the poet in ex-
istsnce-has been hung in the art gallery of
the Botolph Club, Boston.
GENERAL GRANT has often been requested
20 deny the report that he was drunk at the
battle of Shiloh, but he always replied that
''if the people believed that story after the
battle of Shiloh they might do So"
THE late DR.. Rsbbeth, who lost his life in
endeavoring to save that of diptheretic
patient, is to have bis noble service COM
memorated by the establishment of q medal
at the University of London; q medal, q
scholarship. or prize at Kings College; the
endowment of chil6rens cots at Kings Col
lege and the Royal Free Hospitals; and the
erection Of suitable tablets upon the walls
of those buildings.
THE Hon. Levi ?. Morton, United States
Minister st Paris, leads the subscription
fund now being raised for the purchase of a
miniature bronze copy of the statue Lib
erty," to be presented by Americans TO the
city of Paris. The fund has nearly all been
secured, and it is expected to present the
statue to the city July 4 next. 1t will be
thirty feet in height, and be placed in the
Place des Etsts Unis, Paris.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD's bronze statue,
which was ordered for the Pacific COST OF q
Nuremberg Germany, artist, is completed.
1t is OF heroic size, the figure being ten feet
high. 1t represents the late President
standing erect, with his head uncovered and
clothed in civilian dress. On the sides of
the pedestal are figures representing war
trophies and the American eagle. The front
face of the pedestal bears in large, raised let
tiers the name Garfield" The statue will
soon be shipped to San Francisco.
"HUNDREDs OF Yale graduates" says the
Hartford Courant, 'old and young, have
read with a keen sense OF personal loss the
announcement of the death at Cooperstown,
N. y, of Judge Hezekish Sturges OF the
class Of 1871. He was the last OF the illus.
trious line Of college bullies,' fine classical
scholar, an upright magistrate, aud one OF
the latest and jolliest of men, trimming
over with wit as with kindliness-a charm
ing old-fashioned gentleman, whose society
was a treat and whose friendship was q dec
Grafton"
The following anecdote is from John Will
son Cookers note books: One day an Off
Ger came very late to dinner az Talleyrsnd's,
an unusual negligence in France, where
everything is exact. He made a kind of
impairment apology, alleging that he had
been delayed by q pequin, a nickname
which the French soldiers give civilians.
IL. Talleyrand, himself pequin, asked what
pequin was. I'VE call pequin," replied
the officer supereiliously, everything that
is net military" "Ah, yes" said Talley-
rand, quickly, lust as We call military all
that is not civil"
Colonel Opera Mapleson, under suit OF
one of his prima-denne, Mile. Ricceti, has
had his personal property attached. The
Opera Colonel moved the vacation OF the
attachment on the ground that he is resi-
dent OF New York. The proprietor and
cashier Of the New York hotel testified in
his behalf that the Opera Colonel had
claimed that hostelrie as his home for three
years. But Riccetti's attorney opposed the
motion declaring MsplesoD to be British
subject and citizen and that he glorifed In
both, calling his company "Her Majesty
Opera Company" and having his card In
scriOed Lieutenant Colonel ]. n. Maplesor
Junior Carlton" The court is puzzlius
out whether Mapleson is or is not New
Yorker, while Riccetti is puzzled over tn,
question Of whether abe wiz get hsr 81, SO.
salary.
TIE following 10 q revival of . story told
seme years ago in regard to distinguished
scholar: Professor Sylvester, the grea
mathematician, who has lately been recalled
TO England from Johns Hopkins University
Is trife sbsentminded. Once returning Il
Baltimore from . vacation In England b,
got as far as Philadelphia when he missed q
paper ON which he had made some import
sns calculations. Turning on his heel hs
went immediately back 10 England for 1t
snd was Just leaving the steamer 1t Liver
POOL when he found the missing papsr In