The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-12
PERSONALS.

SECRETARY WHITNEY carries palm leaf fan
in summer
NJ. DAMALA, it is rumored, contemplates
applying for divorce from Bernhardt.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be fond of bitter
beer, boiled haddock and roast mutton.
KossUrH is passing the summer in the
Lanzo Valley, at the foot of the Savoy Alps.
GENERAL FRANZ SIeEL, emit whom the
Germans used to fight, has been appointed to
s., 500 position in the County Clerks Office
in New York.
Miss BEADDoN. the novelist, is described as
a pleasant matronly woman, little above
medium height, and the picture of physical
health.
SENATOR SHARON has, it is said, white ele-
plant in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
The property is assessed at 81, 260, O0o, while
its revenue amounts to only $4,000.
JAY GOULD is off in the Atalanta on ten
days cruise to Halifax. His eldest daugh-
ter who was injured recently in a runaway
accident, is with him trying to regain her
health in the salt sea air.
THE Century Company is said to possess
The last autograph signature made by Gen
eral Grant 1t is an endorsement on the
back of 81 900 check sent him as a grateful
Acknowledgement of the value of his articles
after the stipulated price had been paid.
PORE LEO XIII has not mastered English
pronunciation fully, and recently bewildered
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk by what
they really thought of the character and
ability of "Corkhill." II took them some
time to determine that he meant Lord Ran
dolph Churchill.
THE most touching feature of the Beatrice
Battenberg wedding, says a correspondent,
and the one which inspired dream of SEN
timeht, was the bridal veil of Honiton lace,
worn by the Queen for the first time at her
own wedding, and now for the last time as
she gives away her youngest child.
COLONEL ToLLIvER, the Rowan County
kentucky desperate, when handed into
the patrol wagon by the Sheriff the other
evening turned to the crowd and remarked:
81 didn't expect any such honor as this.
Please say to the committee for me that if
they ever visit old Rowan the black jug with
the corn-cob stopper shall paint the fieeting
hours with crimson dyes"
WHEN Mrs. George NJ. Pullman left Chi
cago for Long Branch her special train was
drawn up almost at the very foot of her
lawn. With her were her children and about
eight attendants Her boudoir car was beau
tifully decorated with ox-eyed daisies
geraniums, heliotropes, pansies and other
fayorite blooms taken from her own flower
beds, and the bits of Partisan drapesies, water
colors, prints, periodicals and new books
about the coach gave it a homelike, yet ele-
CANT aspect. One car was devoted to her
horses and another to the carriages OF herself
and children.
GENERAL JoHN LOGAN has purchased
from General Nelson A. Miles, the residence
known as the "Stone Mansion situated on
Columbus Heights, in Washington. The
property contains an acre of ground, in the
center OF which the large double house is To-
Gated. These grounds will be beautifed by
General Logan, making it one of the most
attractive residences in the District. The
price paid was $4,000.
Mrs. ID. II. LEDDY known in the dress
making world as Mary Ann Connolly, Of
New York, is at Long Branch. She owns
eight of the handsomest cottages at that
fashionable resort representing in the aggre-
gate third of million Of dollars. Tbs last
that she has erected is a magnificent stsuc-
ture, near Mr.. Cldlds' villa ct Elberen. II