The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-24
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

THE highest peak in New Guinea is to be
named after William f. Gladstone.
ANOTHER banquet to p. M.-Gen. Wanama-
ker is to be given in Philadelphia.
SENATOR STANFORD and wife and Justice
Field and wife will presently set out for
Alaska.
RUSSELL HARRISON is the only member of
the presidents family who has not been sick
since they became tenants of the white house.
OK the recommendation of w. H. Smith the
queen has granted pension of 800 year to
the wife of the late Prof. Proctor who is now
in Florida.
Miss KATE FIELD is lecturing against pro-
hibition in Boston, and the Massachusetts, W
c. T. L. has hired hall for Mrs. Mary I.
LathrOp of Michigan TO offset her efforts.
Mrs. ANN LANE, wife of Hiram Lane Of
Bath county, Kentucky, died recently, aged
eighty-four years. She was a cousin of Robert
Burns and occasionally touched the magic
string herself
GENERAL VoN VERDY, the new German
minister of war, is said to bear striking re-
semblance to Gen. Grant, not only in fea-
lures, but in his facial expression. He is re-
garded by some as the coming Moltke.
THE United States will have early in the
coming summer a new minister from China.
His name is Tsin HOOK Yam. He is msn of
scholarly attainments, and holds high rank as
a member of the Imperial academy of Pekin.
SECY. NOBLE is said to be working
harder than any of his cabinet colleagues. He
has had one good rest since he went into Office,
and that was involuntary. One night last week
he went TO bed at o'clock in the evening COM
pletely exhausted, and did not awaken until
noon the next day.
SENATOR SPooNER Of Wisconsin is the
smallest man in stature of the members of the
L.. S. senate, but one of the brainiest men in
that body. When he first went to Washington
he was subjected 10 no end of ridicule about
his size, which touched his sensitive nature not
a little.
AN interesting fact in connection with the
election of Mr. Nathan F. Dixon to the national
senate by the Rhode Island legislature is that
his grandfather was elected u. S. senator when
William Henry Harrison was president. Mr..
Dixon is a lawyer by profession and has held
various public positions.
A ST. LOUIS paper has been interviewing
800 Missouri women on politics. Miss Elizabeth
Harrison of Rolla says: Notwithstanding the
present prominence of the family in the repub-
lican party, and despite the fact that | call
President Harrison Cousin Ben, ] have never
strayed from the path of righteousness. l am
a stanch democrat"
AN interesting and valuable relic of the old
Grant leather store in Galena, Ill, in the shape
of gavel made from piece of the currying
bench used IN the establishment at the time
Capt. Z. 5. Grant was employed therein be-
fore his entry into the army during the rebel
lion, has been sent to the G. A r. post at Du-
buque and is TO be presented TO the presiding
officer of the Iowa state encampment of the
G. A. Il.
GEN. JOHN B. CLARK, the clerk of the
has Izu0bfar -bo canine
in the literary line. She bears the qaaint name
of Mayne, and it suits her perfectly. She is
tall, willowy girl and particularly pretty. Her
face is oval, and her mouth is the fac-simile of
Cupid's bow. Grayish-bue eyes, bright and
fiery, light up her intellectual face. l was
told recently that an anonymous novel from
her pen would be published soon.-EtheI In
gals Letter.
A WRITER who met Campanini says: "His
voice in conversation is like a buzz-saw-harsh,
grating, almost common to the ear. His man.
ner is, of course, artistcally impulsive, and all
that is necessary to make him coil through gesti-
culation into a snarled-up knot is just to men,
ton the word Florence, Italy, and the deed is
DONE He speaks English like foreigner and his
ideas more like a basso profundo in prac-
teal thought instead of the fervent ideal
spouting OF the tenore rObusto.
1T is not generally known that Maggie Mitch
ell, recently divorced from hef husband, Mr..
Paddock, was married once before her last
alliance. On the 9th of September, 1862, she
married William Virgil Wallace at OF near the
city of Washington. Her mother and brother
were incensed at the union and made a prison
er of Maggie almost Immediately after the cere-
mOny. She was never permitted TO see him
again. and seven years after she was married to
Mr.. Paddock. Her first marriage is said 70
have been pure love affair.
H. P. CHEATHAM the only coloredEman in
the coming congress, is in Washington looking
after the interests of his constituents in the
matter of postOffices. He represents the Sec
ond district of North Carolina and beat his
democratic opponent Mr.. Simmons, who stood
for reelection, by majority of 49, Mr.. Cheat
ham is about thirty-fve years of age. He is q
bright fellow, molatto and rather handsome
in feature. He Is well educated, and in his
native state has quite a reputation as an orator.
Previous TO his election to congress he was re-
corder of deeds in Henderson, n. c., his home.
The Oldest episcopal clergyman in Massa-
chusetts, and one of the oldest in New England,
is the Rev. DR.. Thomas R. Lambert of Boston.
He is nearly eighty years old, and has retired
from active service, but his mental faculties are
all well preserved. He held pleasant social
relations with Gen. Jackson, Daniel Webster,
Edward Everett Gen. Cass, Senator Benton
and other prominent men of forty years ago.
For twenty years he was q chaplain in the
navy, and he has been free mason for nearly
sixty years, the thirty-third degree being con-
ferred on him in 1869.