The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-22
PERSONALS.


TENNYsoN and Ruskin are ardent chess
players.
SECRETARY BAYARD has again been called
to his home in Delaware by the illness of his
wife.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE who had no home,
has two graves. Things are bound to come
out even.
W. T. STEAD, editor of the Pail Mall Ga
zette, is-a great admirer of the American
style in newspapers.
A coLoREp man has just died in Chester
field County, S. c., ''leaving his thirteenth
wife to mourn his loss
GEORGE W. CABLE, the young novelist, now
has six children. The latest arrival is a son,
while the other jewels are girls.
CHARLES KENDALL WHITE, of the Micki-
gan University, is to succeed Professor White
as President of Cornell University.
FRANK TooKER, a contributor to the Cen
fury, has been appointed to position on
the editorial staff of that magazine.
SENATOR LOGAN is expected to add to the
dimensions of his political boom by address
ing the soldiers at Atlantic City on the 10Th
inst.
A GEORGIA man who became converted
imagines himself John the Baptist, and is
clamoring to Herod for the return OF his
head.
The story is circulated concerning Mayor
Low, of Brooklyn that he is desperately in
love with his wife. Outside of Office hours
he is generally at home.
No fewer than 15T professors at German
universities are between the ages of seventy
and ninety, of whom the greater part still
lecture. Banke, at ninety, is the oldest.
THE author of ''Silver Threads Among the
Gold" has been appointed Postmaster at Shi-
octon, Wis, at salary of S242 year. His
offense, if not forgotten, is thus forgiven.
ME-. IGNATIUs DoNNELLY is now cruelty
distressed at the discovery of Western rival
who conclusively proves that Shakspeare's
plays were written by an actor named Bur
ton.
BUTLER says that hereafter he will take
part in politics only when called upon to do
so. This assures the public that Butler has
retired. But how he will strain his ears in
vain.
THEY were going to ask w. B. Brooks to
become Superintendent of the Sunday-school
at Giesboro Point, Nd, but before the CON-
mittee got around to it he was indicted for
stealing twenty-five horses.
HUGH J. JEwErr and family, General
Roger A. Pryor and family Mrs. Stonewall
Jackson and family, and Jefferson Davis are
named among well-known people "booked''
for the White sulphur Springs, Va, this
season.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY and Colonel Robert
Ingersoll are visiting their cattle ranches in
New Mexico. How the whole country would
mourn and be clothed in sack-cloth and ashes
were the Apaches to relieve these precious
worthless of their scalps.
GENERAL GRANT is thankful for prayers
offered in his behalf, although not convinced
of their efficacy to reverse natural laws. De-
scending to the plane of things human, he is
a stout believer in the Monroe doctrine, and
so informed the Mexican editors.
IT is charged by certain parties in New
York that Colonel Nicholas Smith, of Ken
lucky, who married Miss Ida Greeley, has,
since her death, spent most of the money
left by Horace Greeley. Gossips have it that
he is shortly to marry a California heiress,
when he intends to pay back the money
spent to the estate.
MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER, formerly of the
New York World, succeeds George William
Curtis as editor of Harper's Weekly; and
Mr. A. B. Stanley succeeds Miss Mary Van
dyne as editor of Harper's Young People.
Mr.. Curtis retiFes on a pension, but will still
continue to write for the Editors Drower''
in Harper's Monthly.