The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-08
EFT CETERA.

AMBROSE THOMAS, the composer, has
now seen his eighty-frst birthday.
THE shares of the Beyrout q Damas-
Gus railroad are regularly quoted on the
Paris bourse and are good stock.
MYRoN NJ. WHITNEY, the famous singer.
has been seriously i'll at Rutland, VT, and
though recovering will not be able to ap-
pear in public for several weeks
Mr.. Edison says that when he was
boy he sold peanuts and newspapers on
railway trains. One day baggage porter
lifted him from the ground by his ears.
The membranes snapped and that is how
he became deaf
HULDA FRIEDRICHs, a young German
woman, has been engaged by the Pail Mall
Gazette to make tour OF the United States
for the purpose of writing up the social
institutions of the country, especially In
their effect on woman's conditions.
NJ PAUL BouRGET is completing story
that is likely to be one of the most SEN
sational French books OF the year. II is
to be called "Cosmopolis." and will be
profound study of contemporary cosmo-
politan society, the principal scenes being
set in Rome and Venice.
DIR. VAUGHAN, the new archbishop of
Westminster will have a hard task before
him. He is a tory and opposed to home
rule. This will make him out OF sympathy
with his flock, who are mostly Irish. The
archbishop was educated at Stonyhurst,
the great jesuit college in the north OF
England. He was expelled from there for
smoking.
Rosa BoNHEUR has OF late years painted
only heads or single figures of animals, but
there is now on exhibition in London
recent work from her studio showing a
group composed OF lion, lioness, and
several cubs. The background is repre-
sentation of an African scene, with palm,
date, and aloe trees, and mountain range
in the distance.
IT is said that fully million copies of
Comrades" have been sold. For this and
others of his popular songs-such as THAT
Is Love" and ooh, What Difference in
the Morning author, Felix Nc
Glennon, receives about 81 900 a month
from America alone in ROYALTIES. MIR.
McGlennon lives IN London and ls a
Scotchman of Irish parentage.
The Ammen ram, now on the stocks at
Bath, Me-, is jealousy guarded by the
naval officers on duty there, who keep
constant watch to prevent all foreigners
and possible enemies of the United States
from entering the yard, as the ram en-
bodies some new ideas that it is desired
to keep secret. Any Yankee can get by
the sentinel easy enough, but several for
eign suspects have been elected from the
premises.
BARONESS BERTHA Won SUTTNER, who
recently enjoyed much homage from
literary people during visit in Berlin, is
an ardent and skillful advocate of uni
versal peace. Her novels and short stories
have won her wide popularity; and she
turns them to account for the advance
ment of her pet ideas. She is Hunga-
rian by birth, a member of the noble
family of Kinsky, and was married in
1876, after having reigned in Vienna as
the belle of her day.
LORD WoLsELEY is a terrible fellow, ac-
cording to his photographed reminis-
cences. His lordship declares.that he has
always been absolutely Indifferent to
life" and though he had bullets run
through the lapels and sleeves of his coat,
while shots carried the cap off his head,
and he has been laid low with wounds
such as many a stronger man would have
succumbed to, he point-blank refused to
die, and he kept his word and held on to
| his decision" In the trenches at Sebas-
topol 81 was hit all over the face" says
his lor1ship, "riddled with the stones and
flints, and my left cheek was lying on my
| jacket. l whispered 1 had something in
my cheek. They said it was my jawbone."