The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-29
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

CONTNGsBY DIsRAELI, nephew of the late
Lord Beacousfield, made his first public speech
ut Bath, recently. He denounced home rule.
THE oldest living odd fellow in the United
States is James 5. Irwin of Buffalo, who has
been an active member of Niagara lodge No.
% for forty-five years and has been its secre-
tary for forty years.
Mr.. ADOLF SUTRo is travelling about the
world getting ideas and plans for the great
public library building which he proposes to
put up in San Francisco. He will give the
building and his 100000 volumes TO that city.
II. HENRI RoCHEFoRT, JR., who recently
killed himself in Algeria, was only twenty-nine
years old. but had led a most adventurous life.
He had been with Oliver Pain in the Soudan
and with NJ. de Brazza on the Congo. He had
also travelled much in South America.
II is safe to say that Sir Julian Pauncefote,
the new English minister to the United States,
is a man OF much hieher-minded ideas than
was his predecessor Lord Sackville-West, OF
Murchison letter fame. How could il be other
wise? He stands SIX feet six inches in hight.
". ROUsTAU, the French minister to the
United States. is man of medium hight, with
dark hair and eyes and closely trimmed mus
tache He is one of the most popular men,
bers of the diplomatic corps at Washington.
He is a bachelor, fond of society, and great
diner-Out.
The most famous of the Parisian leaders of
the "claque," a regular institution in French
theaters, is ". Fourier, a cultured, clever
man. in middle life. He is a millionaire, keeps
his carriage, has fine country house, and
Yields wide influence in various directions.
He is a cOmmander-in-chief OF the hired APP
plauders.
GLADSTONE at dinner with the members of
the staff of London Punch the other night will
be a memorable occasion TO everybody present.
He told Burnand, the editor, and Du Maurier,
the artist any number OF anecdotes about the
first days of the English comic paper and also
told Du Maurier that his pictures were a fash
ion plate to the young men OF the day.
THE other day visitor at the agricultural
department, gazing over the ample grounds in
which the buildings are located, turned to the
secretary and remarked: you've got the
prettiest place in the city" '0f course. Why
not" was the prompt rejoInder. "You know
the secretary of agriculture is the tail-end Of
the cabinet, and the tail is almost altogether
ornamental. Its principal use is to keep the
flies of the other members OF the cabinet"
DHULEEP SINGH is to be married The fol-
lowing bans of marriage have been observed
upon the bulletin board OF the Paris Marie
'Dhuleep Singh. profession, maharajah; son of
Runjeet Singh, deceased, and widower of
Bamba Muller, living at "a rue Marbeuf, Paris,
and Ada Douglas Wetherill, living at "a rue
Marbeuf no profession, daughter of Charles
Douglas Wetherill. deceased, and Sarah Char
lotte, his wife, of Greemmorn (sic), England"
THE lady who, it is announced, will soon be-
come the wife of ex-Secy. Bayard, is the only
daughter of the late DR.. George Clymer, for
many years a surgeon in the navy, the grand
daughter of Admiral Shribuck and the great
granddaughter of George Clymer. who was one
of the signers of the declaration of indie
pendence, as well as one of the trainers of the
federal constitution and whose portrait was in
the centennial collection at New York. DIR.
Meredith Clymer, distinguished physician OF
New York City, is member of the same family