The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE mother of Bayard Taylor celebrated her
eishtieth birthday Sunday. She lives at Kennett
Square, Pa,
LABoUCHERE is pointed out as the probable
successor of Mr.. Gladstone in the leadership of
the English liberals.
THE late king of Bavaria left debts which
will be paid off at the rate of $4,000 a year.
The last payment W I'll be made in 1905.
PRINCE LUCIEN BOYAPARTE has come into
a fortune of $4,000 by the death of his
nephew, Paul Amadeus Francis Coutts Stuart
SINCE Secy. Rusk took charge Of the cru
SADIE against the white house rodents his cabi-
net colleagues have called him "Old Rough on
Rats"
A NEW COMPANY, in which Thomas A. Edi-
son is largely interested has been organized to
manufacture dolls on large scale. 1t will turn
out 100000 the first year.
JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., has returned to
WaterviIle Me-, and resumed work in the ma
chine shops of the Maine Central railroad,
where be is busy engaged in learning his trade.
PREVIOUS to last week Bismarck had not at
tended an opera or concert for twenty We ars.
He has not been inside of church, except
strictly on business, for a much longer time,
nor has he put himself on exhibition IN any
foreign country.
IRA s. DIBBLE. who recently died at DAN
Du1ls NO0O.t At the axe Vi hluCAgy was buC OAu-
est resident of that place. For seventy-fve
years he lived in the same house. The house
is $50 years old. One piece of furniture in it
was a chair 200 years old, used successfully by
Mr.. Dibbles grandfather, father and himself.
SECY. TRACY, Acting Rear Admiral Walker,
Commodore White chief OF the bureau of yards
and docks, and two three other officials of
the navy department have received canes made
of oak taken from the timbers of the privateer
George, sunk in the harbor OF st. Johns, n. S.,
in 1871, by the British frigate Pluto. The canes
are adorned with handsome oxidized silver
handles.
ELLEN TERRY is said to suffer agonies Of
anxiety whenever she undertakes a new part,
and she can scarcely bear any one to speak to
10 her on the DAYS preceding the first perform
ance 1t is her habit to spend the greater part
of the time in driving far ont into the country,
so that she feels secure against the intrusion of
visitors. The only person whose company is
welcome to her on these occasions is her daugh-
ter, Ailsa Craig.
PROF. TYYpALL has returned to England
much improved by his soiourn among the Alps.
He has suffered greatly from insomnia. Prof
Tyndall is a pretty lively climber for man of
| his years. He is in his SEVENTEEN year. His
| first exploration of the Swiss glaciers was
/ made thirty-three years ago, but not for love
of adventure; il was for love of science His
object was to determine glacier motion, and he
found, as he expected, that it was on the move
| in fact, very fast.
c. AVERY ORR, who accompanies the U. s
| eclipse expedition to Africa, is anxious
to make certain anthropological studies. Upon
reaching the coast of Africa Mr.. Orr will leave
the expedition, and accompanied by FIVE black
and five white men, all fully armed, will strike
out for the interior, visiting many of the native
tribes. whose manner of living he will closely
observe, photographing and measuring them,
noting their habits and manners and studying
all the characteristics peculiar to each tribe.
PROF. EBEN j. LOOMS, who will accompany
the American solar eclipse expedition to South
Africa on the sloop-of-war Pensacola, TO assist
in both the astronomical and natural history
work, has been for forty years in the national
almanac Office at Washington, and has made
computations in every astronomical almanac
| issued by this government. He has been an
observer in other fields also, and in 1879 he dis
covered the remarkable denomination, or
leaf-like expansion, of the English maidenhair
| fern, which Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard consid-
cred one of the most wonderful of botanical
| phenomena