The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-13
EFT CETERA.

Governor Tillman of South Carolina
has issued an appeal to the country for
help to the sufferers by the hurricane on
the sea islands.
Young Mrs. Moses r. Crow, daughter
Of the wealthy brewer, Jacob Doelger Of
New York, has sued her husband for her
trousseau after leaving him within three
months Of their marriage.
The principals in a recent wedding at
Covington, KY. were Morgan Reenar Of
Boone county, aged thirty-eight years,
who measured seven feet four inches in
height. and an eighteen-year-old girl who
stands but five feet high.
Worth, the great Paris dressmaker,
says that some years ago a Peruvian
heiress paid his firm $4,000 for single
gown, $4,000 being the cost of the laces
alone. A few weeks ago he sold cloak
for $4,000, Of which $4,000 went for the
fur.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich has recently
bought beautiful tract Of land at Ten
ants Harbor, Ne, near the mouth Of
Penobscot bay, where he will build a
summer residence of elaborate design. 1t
will be ready for occupancy next sum-
mer.
A late census shows that there are So
900 suffering children in the schools of
Germany. The habit is said to be in
creasing, owing to children mimicking
one another. The school authorities
have taken steps to lessen the number
Of children thus afflicted.
The last performance in Roster &
Balls notorious music hall in Twenty
third-st., New York, was given last Sat
urday night. The new Roster & Bials,
the largest and most gorgeous music hall
in the country, situate in Thirty-fourth-
St, opened Monday night.
Capt. James Mcneil, who commanded
the confederate detachment which cap
tured Gems. Crook and Kelly in Cumber-
land, Md, during the late war, has still
in his possession the sword taken from
Gen. Crook. It is his intention to pre-
sent the sword to Gen. Crooks widow.
The New York Herald is very
wealthy newspaper and many attempts
have been made to buy it. Four years
ago a syndicate cabled a message TO
Mr. Bennett, asking him what was the
lowest price Of the Herald. He cabled
back: Three cents daily. 5 cents on
Sunday"
A member of the parliament cannot
resign. When he wishes to retire he
accepts the stewardship Of the Chiltern
Hundreds, nominal office in the gift
of the crown paying salary of 20 shill-
ings a year. The acceptance of the gov
eminent appointment forbids him to sit
as a member of parliament.
John and Peter Maloney and their sis
ter Bridget lived together in Elizabeth
St. New York, for many years. Peter
died last summer and John and Bridget
never ceased to mourn him. Six months
ago John was taken sick and his sister
nursed him until last Friday night when
he died. Six hours later Bridget cried
herself to death.
Miss Klumpke, a young American girl,
has won for herself recognition in France
as being one of the most learned astron-
omers and most interchangeable and sue
cessful observers in that country Five
years ago she was received as a pupil
in the Observatoire, being the first
woman to whom the doors of that insti-
tuition were opened.
The fftieth anniversary Of the found
ing of the Jewish benevolent society, the
Independent order of Benai Berth, will
be deliberately celebrated in New York
Oct. II. The order was founded in New
York in 1s43 and now has more than 2S,-
600 members. 1t has extended even to
Europe and the Orient, there being four
lodges in Jerusalem.
Every deIiberative civil body in En-
gland. even down to the town councils,
is provided with a mace, which is
brought forth with solemn ceremony and
placed on a table before the deliberations
begin In one or two city councils
candIestick of silver is added to the
mace. and acts passed in the absence Of
these objects are supposed to be illegal
John Edgar MCGOWAN, known in New
York, where he was assistant chief clerk
of the Jefferson Market police court, as
Johnny MCGOWAN, has married into
share of the fortune that Perry Davis's
pain-kiIler produced. Eva Kingsley
Davis, a granddaughter of the medicine
man. is the bride and her income is esti-
mated at $4,000 year, which must be
better than anything that has befallen
Johnny in his twenty years Of small
political pickings.
Hollis P. Macomber, Boston cigar
dealer, has patented a device that bids
fair to make his fortune and place his
name high on the scroll of public bene-
factors 1t is a chemical preparation
that is rubbed on the business end
of a cigar When the pointed end of the
cigar is cut off and the smoker begins to
puff the preparation ignites, the cigar
lights itself-and the smoker does the
rest Cigars thus treated can be carried
for weeks in pockets or boxes and will
be ready for use at any moment no mat
ter how great stringency surrounds the
owners match supply.