The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21
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THE average age OF eighty-four congre-
gstional ministers who died last year is
given at seventy-one years.
VIZ NEVER knew that Robinson Crusoe
was much of a financier. but it seems that
he did lave a black Friday.-Boston Her.
aid.
THE baptism of the infant son of En-
peror William has been fixed for the 25th
inst. The king and queen OF Italy will be
the ckild's sponsors.
MRs. ~SCHLIeMANN, in addition to her
other accomplishments, has a talent for
tapestry that would have made her a fit
companion for Penelope.
Mrs. MAY French SHELDON, who Is TO
lead an expedition TO the Kongo in Stan
ley's footsteps, is a physician of 10 mean
ability, and has also won a reputation as
an author and sculptor.
Elk PEsIDENT HAYES has been a frequent
visitor to Cincinnati OF late. His hair is
white now, but his step is firm and vigor-
Gus. He keeps alive the memoir Of his
part in the civil war by always wearing
the tri-colored button of the LOYAL legion
and by chatting with Old army comrades
in the corridors of the BurneL house.
MRs. TIBBLEs, better known as Bright
Eyes" who has been sent among the In
dams by q Western paper to investigate
the causes OF their discomfort, atfirn.s that
Observation-Disclosures are responsible for
a great many of the wild and absurd state
ments credited to Indian orators. As she
is herself an Indian, and an educated
woman as we'll. she is peculiarly fitted for
the work she has undertaken
RIDER HAGGARD is a tall man. probably
{ six feet high, somewhat loosely put
together, with a slight stoop of the shout
ders. He has dark hair. but the delicate
mustache which adorns his lip is quite
light in color. A long pointed nose gives
his face a thinning appearance, but a care
full look at him shows that he has a full
forehead and MS eyes are we'll apart. He
has an agreeable manner and a pleasant
smile. When he shakes hands he gives a
quick, nervous grip, and he simultaneous
ly gives a pull sufficiently strong to take a
man who had not good understanding
quite Off his feet.
THERE is a wonderful spring in Her
nandO county, Florida, from which rises
the stream known as the Wekowechee
river, the waters of which will float asmall
steamer. The spring is about eighty feet
deep and sixty feet in diameter. Chem
lists who have analyzed the water say that
there is not a trace of organic matter in
its composition, and that it is the most
pure and fresh of any spring In America.
The steamer which makes regular trips
up and down the Wekowechee is often
Hoated into the cavity OF the spring, but
cannot be made to stav in the center, as
the force of the rising water forces it to
the sides of the basin.
THE unusual sight of a man with three
full-sized arms and hands may be daily
seen upon the streets of Marbette, b. G.
He is a Russian by birth, and first came
to America in 1877 as an attache of the
Greek church at Sitka, Alaska, where he
resided about 1854. He is a large, power
fullv-built man, but seems to have no con
troll of this extra bodi v member, which
hangs down his back from a point almost
exactly between his shoulders. and rolls
from side to side in an unsightly manner
as though para wed. Besides being well
equipped in the way of arms, he has a set
Of teeth that are double all the way
around. 1t Is hardly necessary 10 add
hat the deformity of his teeth does not
detract from a naturally ferocious-lookine
countenance. Notwithstanding his wicked
| appearance he is a mild-mannered, Chris.
tan gentleman.