The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-01
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Ex-SECRETARY BAYARD has the great mis-
fortune to be deaf.
Mrs. MARY H. c. Tanner, the only sur
viWng child of Theodore Hook, is living in
England, a poor anu neglected widow.
She is seventv-three years of age.
THAT Gen. Longstreet came very near
going into President Hayes cabinet is as
serted by the Atlanta Constitution, which
declares that the portfolio of postmaster
general was offered to him.
WHEN Dr. Brooks was commanded. "
as the phrase goes, 20 preach before the
queen, some one asked him if he was
afraid to do so. mo" he replied, smiling,
Il have preached before my mother"
BARNARD FmErcHIE's flag. which Whit
tier immortalized is preserved by Barbara's
niece, Mrs. Handschen. 1t is of silk,
about twelve by eighteen inches, and at
tached to a staff about three feet long.
Miss RUTH BURNETT, of scarborough,
Mass. Mrs. Cleveland's intimate friend,
alter whom little Ruth was named, has
been formally received into the convent
of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood, y. Y.
ALEXANDER JACQUES has just completed
q fifty days fast in New York. This ex-
ceeds bv five DAYS the longest fast that
had ever before been endured. Mr..
Jacques is not a member of Tammany
hall.
Mrs n. b. FORREST, widow of the ia
nous confederate general, died the other
day at her home in Memphis She was
the only person, save Uncle Sam, to whom
the stubborn old fighter would bend bis
will.
GEN. JAMES S. CLARKsoN is planning q
trip around the world with party OF
friends. He expects to be gone six months
or longer. Gen. Ciarkson's party will con-
sist of six or more persons, and they hone
10 sail some time in March. If tie decides
to 20 he will resign the presidency of the
republican national league.
1T is on the cards that Prince Henry oil
Battenberg may visit the Chicago exposi.
ton, and as the managers have almost
lost ali hope OF being honOred by a visit
from any more important members of the
British royal family. they are making the
best of Batt's promise and are disposed to
be thankful for the smallest mercies.
EDWIN HOLMES. the discoverer of the
comet in Andromeda, which mas attracted
much attention during the last three OF
four months, is an amateur astronomer
living in Islington, one of the suburbs oil
London His telescope has an average
aperture of twelve and quarter inches
which, ne says, Is very much larger than
was necessary for this purpose.
BUFFALO BILL lent very well pleased
9Th Tho roappar in which Sacratarv NOhIs
has sat down upon bis scheme to engage
fifty Indians for the Chicago exposition
and feels that he has been treated scuryily
Possibly so, but Mr.. Noble thought thai
the rival committees of the show could
raise all the war hoops needed TO make
the affair a bowling success without Col
Oody's assistance.
ONE of Phillips Brooks characteristic
sermons was preached in Philadelp his
April %, 1865. The body of the martyreC
Lincoln was then lying in that city. Hi
text was verses Il, y and 70 of Psalm
| xviii, beginning: HE chose David al
his servant" etc. The sermon was pub
lished in the January number of the Neu
| England Magazine OF 1898 and last Tuesday
Jan "A, by the Boston Herald.
IT is a remarkable fact that all the
Brooks brothers. four OF whom became
episcopal clerQymen. were very rapid
speakers. Two others besides Or. Arthur
now of the Church of the Incarnation
New York. are hving-thev are William
! employed in bank in Boston, and ths
Rev. John Brooks, a clergyman at Spring
field. Mass The fifth brother, Frederick
was drowned in the Charles river severa
years ago.
JUSTICE LAMAR was fond o. children
One dav last summer he WAS seen to stoI
aud take a hand at marbles with an urchin
Another time he playfully took a little
BOYS straw hat off his head and walked OF
with it. In moment his mind had gone
| on one of those flights of introversion fol
which the justice was famous, and he haC
walked several blocks before he noticed
that he had been committing petit lar
| ceny. He retraced his steps TO restore the
hat. The lad was coming along with pc
liceman, explanations followed, and th'
younster got back MS property.