The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-11
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

THE finest diamonds visible at the shah's
visit to the Paris exhibition are said to have
been worn by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
A sALESGIRL employed by New York dry
goods house was polite and agreeable to an
aged customer, who has just died, leaving her
$500.
JOHN TEMPLEToN of Adams county, Penn
sylvania, seventy-six years of age, has jack
knife that he has carried since he was sixteen
years old.
P. MYETT, accompanied by dog, has driven
in buggy from California to Pennsylvania.
He reports that the going" is more or less
miscellaneous.
EX-SENATOR RTDDLEBERGER is focking by
himself in old Virginia. He refuses to be re-
publican and the democrats won have him,
while the prohibitionists and Riddleberger are
natural enemies.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is out with denial
of the rumor that she is in i'll health, and an
nounces that she will soon return to public
life, probably on the platform and certainly
on the theatrical stage"
THE death is announced of the Lancashire
poetess Fanny Forester. She belonged to the
working classes, at an early age developing a
taste for poetry. She was a frequent contrib
utor to journalistic literature
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND is still unde-
cided as to his European trip next winter. His
wife is anxious to go across and spend few
months in the south of France. Mr.. Cleve-
lands intimate friends assert that his dis
inclination for the trip lies in his fear that ne
would be wofully seasick.
THE London home of Jean Ingelow," says
the New York Telegram, Sis in Kensington
The house is built of light-cOlored brick and is
surrounded by pretty garden, in which flow
ken hlOouoinsy in ha int T.
side the house there are more flowers in pots
and in vases. Miss Ingelow is so fond of flow
ers that she writes Oftener in her conservatory
than anywhere else"
GEN. CROOK, the famous Indian fighter,
wonders how so great a fraud as Sitting Bull
could be made such hero of. He says that
the old Indian is an arrant coward, but so full
OF conceit that he impresses people with his
importance. And no wonder he is conceited,"
adds Gen. Crook, "fOr he has had offers of
marriage from white women, and endless re-
quests for his photograph"
HENRIK IBsEN, the Norwegian dramatist
one of whose plays has been the sensation of
the summer in London, was born and bred,
says the New York Tribune at the small sea-
side town of Skien. Before obtaining admis-
sion to the university of Christiana after a
youth of hard study he had given evidence of
classical knowledge if not literary skill by a
tIAEeug 0dtdliHd Inc Tragedy was
published by the generosity of a friendly
apothecary but only thirty copies were sold.
Ibsen now lives quietly at Munich.
GEN. n. p. BANKS has had a varied career.
He "bobbin boy" in a factory, an actor
fifty years ago, having played the part of Claude
NeinOne in the LADY of Lyons" at the old
National theater Boston. Later on he was
lawyer, and still later a general in the army,
governor of the state of Massachusetts and
speaker of the house in the same state. He was
also member of congress and speaker of the
house of representatives. Gen Banks is now
seventy-three years of age, and is the oldest
living ex-governor of Massachusetts,.
EDWARD BELLAMY, speaking Of his "Look.
ing Backward" the Nationalist says that he
had at the outset no idea Of attempting seri-
Gus contribution to the movement of social re-
form. The idea was of mere literary fantasy,
a fairy tale of social felicity. Originally the
date Of the story was 5000 A. d., and the rO-
nance was of an ideal world instead Of as
finally, nation. After many recastings the
story became the vehicle of a definite scheme
of industrial reorganization, the scheme having
worked itself out in the mind of Mr.. Bellamy
while he was trying to fashion his fairy
rounanea