The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-16
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

WALT WHITMAN is reduced to a wheel chair.
BUFFALO BILL is teaching Paris to eat pop
corn and peanuts.
s. s. Cox left the manuscript of a book,
which Mrs. Cox will edit
THE gross value of the estate of Piggott, the
English informer, amounts TO S5025.
QUEEN VICToRIA's pet dog is a Yorkshire
terrier that weighs "a pounds and cost So.
THE king of Portugal is paralyzed from mis-
waist downward. lie cannot live more than
few weeks.
MESELIK III, king of Abyssinia, is the son
OF beggar woman who took the fancy of his
royal father.
CAPT. PARSONS is the oldest living male born
In Wilkesbarre, Pa. His yearly rentals from
coal lands amounts to over $50, 600.
AMONG the distinguished octogenarians who
make practice of early rising may be named
Cardinal Newman. He is very feeble, but still
receives visitors and always treats Americans
with especial cordiality and courtesy.
CHRISTOPHER c. ANDEL is the father of the
smallest mite of humanity in New Haven, and,
in all probability in Connecticut His only
child is baby boy that is seventeen days old
and weighs two pounds and five ounces The
boy is about eleven inches long, but very thin.
His arm Is about twice as thick as the stem of
a clay pipe, and his fingers are so slender it is
ulI1cult TO institute comparison.
ARCHBISHOP Potter, bishop of Bombay.
whose death has just been announced, was
Jesuit father and great lnguist, as he wrote
and spoke seven different European languages
and over dozen of the native tongues of India
and Asia. He was an inveterate chess player,
and on one occasion he was known to have for
gotten his vesper service while absorbed in the
game. For this his self-inhicted punishment
was no chess for two months, to him most
severe punishment
Mrs. HENRIETTA SMELL of Chicago is to
erect in Union park in that city, fine me-
mortal TO her husband. the millionaire whose
death is supposed to have been the work of
Burglar Tascott's pistol. At = meeting of the
Park board $4,000 was offered by Mrs. Smell
and accepted to build a Romanesque structure
which will serve a shelter, drinking fOun-
tain, clock tower and a support for electric
lights. The tower is to be constructed of gran
lite and gray sandstone.
A REMARKABLE feat has just been CON-
pleted by Julius G.. Elinger, cooper of Ale
gan, Mich, making 10000 barrels in forty
weeks, working eight hours per day, which
beats all previous barrel-making in the United
States. Every stave, head, hoop and nail
must be handled separately, and some slaves
from one to three times. In making 10000
barrels 1t takes 10000 slaves, 5000 pieces of
heading, $4,000 hoops and 10000 nails. IL
would require ten box-cars 10 carry the timber
and fifty to carry the finished barrels.
NJ. EIFFEL has given his opinion of the FEAST
bility of constructing a tower, on the plan of
the Eiffel structure in Paris, of such dimen-
siOns are proposed for the tower to be con-
structed on the site OF the United States worlds
exposition of 1892. He expressed his I'M
bounded confidence that the plan of the Paris
structure, with some slight notifications which
experience had suggested to him. could safely
be adopted for a tower twice its hight, and that
with this plan a tower of any altitude desired
presented no engineering difficulties whatever.
ROBERT FRIEND a farmer, living on the
Union canal, near Meyerstown, Pa, was at
tackled by wild cat and nearly lost his life in
the encounter. He was on his way home from
the field, when, passing under a tree which
projected over the road, he spied big wild
cat seated on one of the lower boughs. Before
he could get out of the way the animal dropped
on him, uttering as il sprang forward a success
sion of dreadful yels. The beast weighed per
haps forty pounds, and bit and scratched the
farmer fearfully tearing his coat and shirt lit
orally into shreds. AT length, though nearly
exhausted, Mr.. Friend seized club lying at
hand, and succeeded with it in driving the
furious beast from him. lie then escaped to
his home, where his injuries were treated. 1t
is thought he will recover