The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-18
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IHB Ethel tower was pretty sall thing
in its way, but it is dwarfed into littleness
when compared with George Eiffel's claim
that he made Sl0OOO.OO0 profit out of it.
Mrs. GLADSTONE is at last satisfied that
justice has been done to her illustrious
husband. The portrait OF him which Pro.
pheroe has just finished is admitted by
her 10 be perfect, and the only really good
likeness OF him yet painted.
WILLIAM AsroR was drawn as a Jury
man in New York last week. 1t was the
day before the telegraph announced he
had been summoned to appear before a
higher court. Last FRIDAY the Judge or
dered his name stricken from the Jury
list
IT is said that years ago Won Moll-
hansen, the German novelist, who is now
librarian to the German emperor. was a
day laborer on an Illinois farm. His en-
ploye- at that time, Adam Reiss, remem-
oers him we'll, and says that he was very
industrious.
S. II. II. CLARK, the new president of
the Union Pacific railroad. began life as a
brakeman on gravel train. He is said to
be particularly popular with the railroad
labor organizations, and no trouble ever
arose from those sources after he became
manager OF Gould's Missouri Pacific svs-
TEN.
WHEN they asked DR.. Edward Ever
EFT Hale the other day the secret of keep
ing young at the age OF seventy be said :
First, never do anything yourself which
you can get another to do for you; second
never trouble yourself as to who will get
the credit for what is done; third, never
work after three o'clock liz the afternoon !;
fourth, sleep ten hours out OF twenty
four"
COL A. K. MCCLURE, editor of the Phil
adelphia Times, was attending a Grant
banquet on the evening that his office was
burned down. Intelligence of the fire was
brought him as he was about to respond
to the toast, The Press" Fastening to
the scene, he quickly took in the situation,
saw the case was hopeless, and then coollv
returned to the festivities from which he
had temporarily absented himself.
HERMAN ZEITUNG. who makes his living
by travelling in trunks, and then exhibit
ing himself in variety shows on the CONT
nent, made his last trip from Antwerp to
Christiania in a wooden box, which stood
on the ships deck four days and four
nights without anybody knowing that it
contained man. The voyage was stormy,
but Zeitung kept his nose to a crack in the
boards, ate his sandwiches, and kept well.
ONE spring morning farmer went into
his stable to harness his horse for blowing
when he perceived that the animal was
dead. "This," said the farmer, gazing at
the dead horse, sis what call unlimited
gall. I'd like to be horse myself, under
the circumstances. All winter long the
miserable brute does nothing but stand
in the stable and eat and drink, and when
springtime comes, gentle Annie, when
there is work to be done, be just pegs
out."-TerGs Siftinos.
TENNYsoN reads a great number of nov
els, says the Bookmdn. The time spent in
reading them is in the evening. So en-
crossed does he become in their perusal
that it is a matter of difficulty to get him
to bed. He rises late and breakfasts in
his bedroom, usually taking a stroll at
about II and lunching at about O'Clock.
Much of the afternoon is spent by him
self, when he enjoys the luxury of his pipe
with which nothing is allowed to inter
fere) and refreshes himself with a nap.
DR.. NoRvIN GREEN, the president of the
Western union telegraph company. has
been identified with telegraphy since its
earliest days. He was a practlcing ply
stefan at Louisville, KY, when he was in
duced to organize the Southwestern tele-
graph company, which in time went the
way of the other companies throughout
the country-it became a part of the
Western union system. DR.. Green's fav-
orite illustration of the vastness of the
Western union system is to say that its
wires would make Quadruple line to the
moon.
SAMUEL MINTrRN PECK, the poet, is in
some respects a queer genius He lives
like hermit on his farm near Tuscaloosa,
Ga, and notwithstanding the fact that
the critics have crowned him a poet he is
very sensitive on that subject aud invari-
ably enters a modest protest when laurel
is served up to him at dinner. He in
forms one anxious inquirer that he is
farmer" another that he is "a doctor"
and still another that he has no occupa-
ton at all, other than that of "a land |
lord" He keeps open house tohis friends, |
and literary people occasionally drop in |
and spend six months or year with him. !
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