The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-02
GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE.

TENNYsoN refuses TO write his memoirs
The fund for Matthew Arnold is now
$4,000.
KING GEORGE of the Mosquito Islands is
dead, of deiirium tremens.
No MAN living to-day has had so many pleas
ant death notices as Henry NJ. Stanley
SARA BERNHARDT's earnings in CONSTANT
nople are South American in size. She is hav-
ing enormous success there.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw, Joseph II. Choate
anG their friends have organized an athletic
club which has spent 100000 on its head
quarters, gymnasium and running track
GEN. LONGSTREET begins to feel the weight
of his years. Abiding to some political attacks
upon his record the other day he remarked
patheucaly: Il begin to feel like very old
rebel indeed"
JOSEPH JEFFERSON has sent card to the
New York Sun in which he says that 'by some
accident" his name was quoted in the list of
those indorsing the movement for the eX-
clusion of foreign actors.
MARSHAL DE IMAGINATION doesn't intend to
waste his Memoirs" on the public. They are
TO be published Immediately, but they are in
tended for the delectation OF his own family
and few intimate friends.
A NEW phrase was invented by Lord Comp
ton, radical peer, who was recently a parlia-
mentary candidate in London. ''Three rooms
and cat, was. he said, the existing standard
of comfort for the working classes.
CONGRESSMAN ROSWELL P. FLOWER has
added immensely to his fortune in the past two
or three years. His money has been made
largely by promoting railroad enterprises and
in big stock and bond sales. Mr.. Flower is
worth S6,0O0,00O or 100000. He is of medium
hight and stout build.
LADY GRIZEL BAILLIE of Dryburgh abbey
has been formally admitted TO the office OF
deaconess by the presbytery of Selkirk She
is said TO be the first woman who has applied
for admission to this Office in the church Of
Scotland.
IT Is reported that the emperor of Germany
owes the recurrence of his ear malady solely to
his own obstnacy in living in the marble
palace at Potsdam in defiance of the advice of
his physicians. He is now going TO buy villa
at Reichenhall.
THE lace for the wedding-dress of Princess
Sophia of Prussia, who is to be married to the
crown prince Of Greece early in May at Athens,
is being made at the famous Silesian schools
from a beautiful design in the royal museum
of industry at Berlin, and the crowns, crests
and monograms are TO be worked from de-
sign drawn by the Empress Frederick.
THE Rev. DR.. A. E. Dunning OF Boston tells
this story: He was visiting his home in
Maine, and an old fellow-townsman began a
theological discussion with him. "Parson,"
said he, 'the bible says that the Lord made the
world in six days Do you believe it?" ''Yes."
Now, do you think that he finished the whole
thing up in that tlme?" Yes" well, all
can say is that he could have put in one more
day to mighty good advantage right here in
this town"
The poet Whittier has given the following
opinion about the publication of private letters
in letter to friend "Some years agoI de-
stroyed large collection OF letters had re-
ceived, not from any regard to my own reputa-
ton, but from the fear that to leave them liable
to publicity might be injurious or unpleasant
TO the writers or their friends. They covered
much of the anti-slavery period and the war of
the rebellion, and many of them / know were
strictly private and confidential. | was not
able at the time 10 look over the MSS, and
thought it safest to make bonfire OF all
have always regarded private and confden-
tial letter as sacred and its publicity in any
shape shameful breach of trust. unless au-
thorized by the writer. | only wish my own
letters to thousands of correspondents may be
as carefully disposed OF"