The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-06
PERSONALS.

CARLYLE's house is to be marked similar 10
Main. with the idea of it being then a monu-
ment to bis memory.
IN America we call men who 6abble in
dynamite 'dynsmiters," Canadian papers
call Them "dyDsmiteurs," and the English
press refers to them az 'dvnamitards.'
GEORGE TYLER and Frank G. Walker, two
young Americans who have been studying
in Florence for the past three years, have
been singing IN the London Crystal Palace
concerts with decided success.
w. E. CURTIS, who failed of confirmation
by the Senate the other day as Secretary to
the South American Commission, says Will
liam Penn Nixon. and not be, wrote the let
ter rejecting upon Senator Logan in the
Zuni Indian matter.
ADJUTANT GENERAL DRUM is said to agree
with General o. O.. Howard in the opinion
that deserters from the army ought to be
branded. He says that during the last five
years 10, 9O1 soldiers nave deserted from the
regular army, or nearly every other man.
A DISPATCH from Raleigh, N. O., says:
Mrs. Lucretia Garfield. wife of the MUIR
dered President, will in a fortnight visit
Stanley County, this State, to look after
mine, which yields her quite a neat in
come"
AN Arizona editor is letting the Office seek
him as follows: "The miserable scarecrow
who edits our contemporary is lying as
usual. We don't want the Postofice, but
the Eternal they'll see that we get it wheth.
er we want it or not"
VIReIL's birthplaee-the little village of
Pietole, in the Lombardy Plain; about five
miles from Mantua-has just ~inaugurated q
monument to the poet. Close TO the village
| rises a small hill, the Monthelli di virgilio,
and here, according to LEGAL tradition, stood
the house in which Virgil was born.
QUEEN BANcA of CASTLE, says a recent Ger
man writer. was the inventor of wigs. She
was so shocked ht the bald head of her son,
King Louis. upon his return from a crusade
in the Holy Land, that she requested a lock
from each knight OF the court whose hair re-
sembled her sons. These locks formed the
first wigs.
A PROMINENT Government official in Wash
ington says that when in New York a few
days ago he learned that five physicians had
been called in consolidation to examine the
state OF General Grants health, and that
they had arrived at the conclusion that the
General was completely broken down physi-
cally, and required absolute rest.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, of the United States
Supreme Court, has been attended by a
woman physician during the recent serious
illness from which he is just recovering.
Mrs. DR.. Winslow is the family physician of
the Waites. A strong pressure was brought
TO bear upon Mrs. Waite to induce her to
call in some other physician. As this was
on the score of gender and not of ability or
experience, that lady positively declined.
AT Havana, when distinguished stranger
visits the tobacco factory of Senior Cabana
or Partagas, the custom is to offer him an
"0bsequio' by fashioning a new brand of
cigars in his honor. To this we owe the ex.
cellent cigars known as the Ssrrano and
the Henry Clay. The London tobacco man.
ufactureIs elected to pay Charles Dickens
the Cuban compliment. A neat little cigar,
costing only two cent, was devised, and was
christened the "Pickwick," which still re-
tains its popularity in England.