The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-03
PERSONALS.

JAY GoULD wss forty-sight years old last
Wednstdsy.
RUSSELL SAGE is reported to have lost full
Ss,oO0,o00 in speculations last year.
ALrHoSsE DAUDET, the celebrated French
author, is almost crippled with rheun aiism.
FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
MALcoM Hay complains that the service 10
hindered by the inefficiency of his Chief
Clerk, who has been in the department.
nearly half century.
RAv. Dr.. II. J. CRAMER, ex Minister TO
Switzerland, who has Just been called to the
chair of Systematic Theology in Boston Uni
verhity, is familiar with the French, Italian,
RoRERT @. WINTHROP, who only few
weeks ago was reading his own obituary in
numerous newspapers, was conspicuous at
the funeral CT the late George Lunt of Boz
top, and has arranged to speTd the summer
with his family at Richfeld Springs.
OLD GEORGE BANCROFT, not content with
dsily riding on horseback, excites the envy
of Washington dudes by wearing close and
fsultlessly fitting short b ack velvet riding
Jacket and buff breeches that fit to his finely
formed legs like moulds to paraffine candles.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA is attracting large
audiences in Australia by his lingo lectures.
specimen brick from his lectures runs
something like this: "If Beaconsfsld were
alive the Russian bear won have been muz-
zled, chained, hanged, drawn, and quartered
long ago."
COMMISSIONERS FINK, the famous railroad
arbitrator, is described as locking like q
ieudal Baron. His frame is massive and sug-
gestive of giant strength; his hands are large;
his great square shoulders are surrounded
| by head as massive as the bocy, and his
clear blue eye is full of watchful and guarded
intelligence.
ZAcHARIAH MONTGOMERY, the California
man appointed to be attorney for the Inte-
rior Department, ia tall, portly man, stand
ing over six feet in his stockings, and tip
ping the beam at three hundred pounds. He
has large head and rudy face, and has
occasionally worried the coast Democrats by
bis tendency toward mugwumpism.
JOHN MoGCIRE, q country store keeper at
Modoc Lsndipg, on the Lower Mississippi,
was selected to distribute the Government
rations sent to the sufferers from the floods
in that region year ago. He has just been
tlied, convicted and fined for violating the
Sunday law in Arkansas by keeping open his
store and distributing those rstions on Sun
day. The Arkansas Legislature should be
yisited by the missionaries.
FRANcEs E. TowNsLEY was ordained by
council of Baptist Churches in Nebraska.
| This is the first instance, in modern times at
least, Of the formal setting apart of q woman
to the Office and work of evangelical min
istry. The Methodist Church, thought it
permits women to speak in its pulpits has
declined to ordain them. There have bsen q
few women preachers like Miss Anna Oliver
and "Bible readers" like Miss Smiley but
none OF them has obtained ordination. This
Nebraska case is distinctly new thing.
A UNITED STAGES SENATOR, taking recently
about the pension granted to a daughter of
John Tyler, said: 1.-The Government already
pays pension to John Tyler's widow. She
is this daughters steP-mother. She has
never given the daughter any benefit Of ths
pension. We seriously debated whether wa
would not take eway part Of the widows
pension at the same time we gave one to the
daughter. 1t ought to have been done for
lesson to humanity, but it might have
looked as if the country was small in its
treatment of the families OF its great men,"
Mss CLEvELAND's return to the White
House yesterday will no doubt settle the
| busy gossips who have been spreading all
sorts of rumors about her relations with the
President and alleging all sorts Of ridiculous
things about an imaginary quarrel between
them. 1t will hardly vindicste the gossips,
but 1t will serve to show again how baseless
ere many of the rumors which these null
sances delight to retail. One of the most
dissereeable features of q public mans life
is the reckless manner in which his home
life is invaded and its every Occurrences laid
before the public gaze. President Cleveland
has not been exempt from the most merciless
treatment Of this kind.-Philadelphia Times
May 90.