The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
Next cay he got a scented note.
Which said, =. m see your Belle;
The good-by at the door last night
Waa only a Patti farewell"

DR.. FRITHIoF NANsEN, the Norwegian
explorer, whose achievement in crossing
Greenland from the eastern to the western
shore resulted in considerable additions to
knowledge, is preparing TO start in the
spring of 1892 on an expedition the main
object of which will be to reach the North
pole.
DR.. SCHLIEMANN's widow is thirty years
younger than her distinguished husband
was. She is hardly more than a girl in
years, but she is q beautiful m and
has been most carefully educated. She
knows several languages besides Greek,
and is said to know near,y all o! the Iliad
by heart.
BARON N%oRDENsKJoLD, the Swedish ex-
plorer, and a recognized authority on
Greenland, has written a letter to Prof.
Horsford of Cambridge, in which he ex-
presses full accord with his views that the
Norsemen frequently and nuIaerouslv
visited the Amer can continent and formed
an element in the race.mixture here.
AN English paper QUOTED by the Med
zeal Record states that n of the lecturers
of Owens college, Manchester, has put
forward the assertions a. chat no Jew
or Jewess has ever been known to suffer
from cancer" and (2) "that the immunity
of the Hebrew race from this frlgh'ful
scourge was attributed to their abstinence
from swine's flesh"
SENATOR IRBY of South Carolina, despite
his proletarian sympathies, is the descend
ant Of a fine old Southern family. His
father, who was at one time lieutenant
governor of the state, was a successful
lawyer and planter and left a fortune OF
100000. On his mothers side the sena
tors line runs bach to several noted
orators and heroes OF the revolutionary
days.
THE following anecdote of a minor light
of the Irish bench, though not precisely a
"bull" pure and simple, belongs more or
less to that fertile family. A wife had
suffered untold cruelties at the hands of a
barbarous husband, and in self-defense
she took the law on him - but just be-
fore the trial she reiented and told the
Judge she wished to leave the punishment
and the case to God. IL regret, my good
woman" replied the great official, that
we cannot do that; the case is far too inn
%portant."
NhAl II IOiAhCO Il iCaSNiph dSdAA1S -
Koch's treatment prevails in Paris, based
on the fact that eight patients have died,
while lone have been cured. Owing, per-
haps, to a bitter national prejudice, there
has never been at any time the sanguine
feeling in France in regard to the Koch
treatment that prevailed in other coun-
tries. That there have been no cures in
the Paris hospitals is credible enough,
zinc the treatment was not claimed nor
ex pected r. lie a curative save in certain
stages of the malady, and only then by
gradual process.-PhlIodelphid Record.
The duke OF Edinburgh is a great stamp
collector, and has stamps which are worth
a verv large sum of money. Officers in
the navy who know his royal highness's
weakness for these valuable little pieces of
paper collect these of whatever foreign
station they may be at. and send them to
the royal admiral. There is N private
collection in England which has been val
ued at 100000; and even the heads of the
magnificent house of Rothschild are not
above investing considerable sums in the
purchase of rare and valuable stamps. The
German stamps of the old pattern will be
OF no value in circulation after March next.
A complete set of them will. however. be
very useful in a collection, and efforts are
being made to secure these for MANY of
our best known collectors.