The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-07
Person Nails.
Examiner.

The latest operano news from thu Old
world is That new voice has been added to
the family of Nine. Gsrster.
MRs. LYNN LINTON is said to have been the
author OF the vicious review of George Ell.
lots life, lately appearing in Temple Bar.
CLARENCE A. FRKEMAN, the checker cham.
pion OF America, is twenty.six years old.
He claims direct descent from the Pequot
Indians.
AMONG The names drawn for the District
Court Grand Jury to serve in Toledo during
the June term appears that o, Rutherford B.
Hayes, of Fremont.
GENERAL GRANT ia sent each month by the
Array Paymaster of New York a check for
81, 1873 80, being one-tweltth OF the annual
salary as General on the retired list OF the
army.
DR.. II. E. SrocKBRIDGE, son OF the ex.
President of Ambient College, and cousin by
marriage to Secretary Lamar, has gone to
Japan to be chemist and geologist to the I'm
perial Government.
MINISTER PHELPS will not only step into
exMinlster Lowsn's diplomatic shoes, but
he has arranged to occupy his house in
Lowndes Square, London, and expects to be
in full possession by mid.May.
Mr.. EDWIN BoorH will not occupy his sea-
side cottage till June, and. consequently, his
daughter, Mics Edwina, will be married at
her fathers house in Boston, and not at
Newport, 80 has been announced.
PHrADEI PHI, Is rich in rich colored men.
Robert Purvis is worth Sl50000. William
Still is still richer, and has cleared $500 900
selling coal. Isaiah c. Wears, once poor
barber, now has soap to the amount Of $50.
600. John Mckee is real estate dealer,
worth $780, 900. The widow Of Henry Jones
has S60, 600, which her husband cleared as a
caterer.
WAsHINeToN correspondent says: "Mr.
Bancroft has a funny way of making mock
scowls, and saying to people of fifty and
sixty years of age: why, my child, Pm as
old as the hills. I'm the Oldest person you
ever knew The next minute he may be
speaking in the moot serious and uncon-
scious manner OF poor old Mr.. Corcoran,'
who is just his own age"
A PARIS coschman, speaking the other day
to brother jehu, remarked: For my part,
l don't take any stock in men with great
repu ations. Take III. Alexandra Dumas fls
for example. Well, drove him from his
home to the Lyons railway station in my
cab. There was plenty of time for him to
think of som sthing to say, wasn't there?
Well he didn't get off the slightest bon mot
during the whole drive"
WHEN the late Senator Fessenden was
Secretary Of the Treasury il is related that
he.one day received sealed package. He
broke the seal and sgain looked at it, and
then at the signature; scrowl appeared on
his face, and in a very emphatic and DISCUS
ted manner he tore the manuscript to pieces
and threw it into the waste-basket with the
remark, "What in the ID does Wilson Sen.
Stor Wilson, know shout finance?n
81 CAN not understand upon what founda.
ton the primrose has been connected with
the name Of Lord Besconsield" says Labou-
chere. 1.-THE only aIlusion 70 the flower in
Lord Bsacons6eld's works is in Lothian
where Lord St. Jerome Is called Barbarian
by his wife, because he remarked that 'prim-
roses make capltaI sAGAo. would aQVlse
some enterprising Tory restaurant keeper to
advertise 'Hughenden salads when this ar
niyersary sgiin comes round, and no doubt
he will double his chances OF success if he
adds that the primroses are coniectioned
after recipe supplied by one Of the danes
Of the egregious Primrose Lesgue."
Mrs. JOHNSON. of Baltimore. who as Miss
Harriet Lane, presided at the White House
for her uncle President 1chsnan, is visiting
her old friend. Mrs. Hornsby. in Washing
ton, whose father, Judgs Black, was then
Attorney General. When it was mentioned
Tuesday evening TO Miss Cleveland that Mrs.
J hnsor. the only other unmarried lady lex.
cept Presidents dauehter) who has ever
presided in the White House and who. like
Miss Cleveland. did so for bachelor Demo-
cratic President, was in the city, she said
eagerly: 20, must see her OF course snail
see bsr." Mrs. johnson. however. is mourn
ing the loss of husband aud two children,
and the visit has been postponed.