The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-13
PERSONALS.

Mn. GIADsToNE's election expenses were
$500.
Nh. PARNELL is bachelor and lives the
simplest sort of life.
PROFESSOR AGAssIz has sailed for Germany,
and will make brief stay in Europe.
MISS SUE CozAD, of Wheeling, is said to be
the hsndsomest postal clerk in the service.
CONGRESSMAN HoUK, of Tennessee, edu-
Gated himself while working at the cabinet
makers trade and by reading by freight at
night.
Ii is noticeable that Queen Victoria, after
returning to Windsor from Scotland or else
where, always pays an early visit to the En-
press Eugene.
ALEXANDER DUMAS, who is still called Du-
mas the younger, is taking his place among
the veterans of literature. He is now in his
sixty-fifth year.
SENATOR BECK, it is said, can repeat 1.-THE
Lady of the Lake from memory, knows
Burns by heart, and thinks there are no
novels equal to those OF Walter Scott.
COMMODORE BARTLETT, of the navy, believes
that at least half of the vessels lost last sea-
son on the great lakes might have been saved
by judicious use of oil on the troubled wa
tiers.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said to feel hurt
because his recent letter on the subject of
newspaper discussion was made public. The
letter, it is alleged, was meant to be strictly
confidential.
GENERAL TOXINS discouraged the building
OF hotel in his native town OF Washington,
Ga, on the ground that all decent people
visiting the place could stay with him, and
no others were wanted.
LEOPOLD is enc of the most democratic of
Kings. He saunters about Brussels in the
most leisurely way, and is as familiar fig
ure on the Rue Royale as President Grant
used to be on Pennsylvania avenue.
ALIEN. GILcHRIsT, poor, decrepit old man,
an inmate of poor-house in Pennsylvania,
has just received pension from the Govern
ment amounting to so, l51 the largest sum
ever paid to private soldier as pension.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's election expenses were
So, 900, or about one-fourth the sum incurred
in the election of 1880, but now. as then, aud
in all previous elections, MIR. Gladstone was
not called upon personally to contribute to
the canvassing fund.
SEVEN editors are members of the present
House OF Representatives. They are Bou-
telle, of Maine; Barksdale of Mississippi;
Haynes, of New Hampshire; Pulitzer and
Merriam, of New York, and Scranton and
Swope, of Pennsylvania.
FARMER JOHN SELLERS, of New Philadel-
phia, O., never cut his hair, beard or nails,
and never permitted goose to be plucked or
sheep to be sheared on his farm and as he
believes that nature regulates things general
ly, he is believed to be the father of Colonel
Mulberry Sellers.
WILLIAM EDGAR MARSHALL, the artist en-
graver of Atlanta, Ca, is engaged upon a
portrait of General Lee, from negative
taken in Richmond during the war, and de-
clared by General G. w. Curtis Lee to be the
only profile negative of his distinguished
father in existence.
THE venerable W. w. Corcoran, of Wash
ington, is now interested in removing the re-
mains of Major L'Enfant from the farm
where he was buried to one of the public
parks, with view to erecting a monument
to mark the memory of the man who made
the plan on which the Capital was Lard out.
Roscoe CoNKLING has declined an invita-
ton extended by the Grand Army Post and
prominent Hartford citizens to give an adj
dress in that city on General Grant. He
says he has promptly declined all invita-
lions to deliver lectures or addresses since
his retirement from public and political life.