The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-23
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Senator Sherman is said to be a capital hand
at playing tenpins.
Archbishop Benson of Canterbury is a warm
advocate of the use of bicycles by the clergy.
Senator Butler of South Carolina is hneal
descendant of the duke of Ormonde, OF Ire
land.
The ameer of Afghanistan is said to be medi-
tating journey to England 70 call on the en-
press Of India this summer.
Dr. James Newton Matthews, the young Hi
nois poet is TO be given a banquet at Mason on
the 23d of this month by James Whitcomb
Riley, the Hoosier poet; Robert Mcintyre, the
The oldest methodist preacher in Indiana is
the Rev. George Schwartz of Jacksonville. He
was licensed TO preach in 1922, when twenty
years old. He is vigorous mentally and phys
ically. He was married the year he was or
dained, and his wife is still living
1t is stated that Robert Louis Stevenson is to
make his home in New York. Why does not
Chicago offer this brilliant man OF letters
bonus of 10000 to come here to live, as it
would if Mr. Stevenson were a distinguished
baseball pitcher?-ChicdgO AmericGR.
Mr. Herbert Spencer has been staying at
Bournemouth. His health is improving, but
he still suffers from insomnia and nervous ex-
haustion. Since 1876 he has been a victim of
sleeplessness. He is now doing very little work,
and never expects TO do much more, though
his doctors are more hopeful.
DIR. NJ. Z. Wadsworth, who has recently been
appointed state geologist of Michigan, is a ma
tive of Maine and graduate OF Bowdoin col
lege, class of 1869. For dozen years he has
been connected with the Agassiz museum at
Harvard, and from that university, in 1879,
ceived the degree of doctor of philosophy.
Andrew Carnegie was recently elected one
of the directors of New Yorl1's cremation
society. Since the organization of the society,
three years ago, 1856 bodies have been inciner-
ated here, 129 males and fifty-seven females.
Interested people declare that cremation is
gaining ground, and this New York society has
now begun TO pay expenses.
Gov. Hamilton of Maryland makes his home
at HagerStown, where he was born and where
he made his early reputation as a lawyer and a
politician. He has a fortune of 81 100000, and
many fine farms in the country around Hagers-
town are his. He recently built in that city
hotel which bears his name and which was
erected at cost of 100000
1t is said that the primrose was not Lord
Beaconsfields favorite flower at all, and that
the story that it was arose from the fact that
the queen sent 10 grace his coffin a wreath of
those flowers with card bearing the inscrip-
ton, in her own handwriting, His favorite
flower" But she meant the favOrite of her
own husband, Prince Albert not OF BeacOns-
field.
President Cleveland still fights shy of mount
ing saddle horse, though he is a member OF
the Washington riding academy, and horse is
kept there for him. A Washington man says
he is not afraid of the horse so much as of the
''nOtoriety of appearing in public in the atti-
tude of a Jockey" Mrs. Cleveland is reported
as being very anxious to ride, but is restrained
by the fear of nOtoriety. 1t is not asserted by
any one that Mrs Cleveland thinks she wouldn't
look well on horseback.