The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03
EFT CETERA.

MISS SUSAN b. ANTHONY will lecture at
the Cincinnati Odeon Thursday evening on
"What have We gained after forty years
agitation p
Mrs. SUsANNAH CHADWICK of Emporium,
Pa, is revolutionary pensioner and re-
ceives S25 a month. She Is seventy-four
years of age.
THE Register at Stanford university. Cali
fornis, announces that ex-President Harri-
son will begin his course of lectures on
international law next October, when the
new school of law will be opened.
FREDERICK l.. BILLION, an early settler of
st. Louis, celebrated his ninety-second
birthday last SUNDAY. He is a native of
Philadelphia, removed West in 1918. and
has been subscriber to the st. Louis Re
publican NOW RepubAc) for seventy-four
years.
THE gossips of the capital are telling a
pretty story about Secretary of the Navy
Herbert and Mrs. Manning, widow of
Daniel Manning, secretary OF the treas
ury under MIR Cleveland's first admins
tration. The story is TO the effect that
these two will be the contracting parties
in a wedding shortly TO take place.
TIE Salt Lake City Herald, speaking of
the attractions of that place to sight-seers
from all over the world, reports that last
week the register of the Knutsford hotel
contained the names of guests from En-
gland, Germany. Spain, France, Hungary,
Sardinia, Australia, Sweden, Russia,
Queensland, Wales, Ireland and New
! Zealand.
THE Oklahoma boomers are much dis
gusted at the outcome of their new terri
tory. 1t is said that thousands are aban-
| doning their claims and returning to
their old homes. There has been much
more suffering among the whites than
among the negroes, for the latter have
helped each other, while the white family
| in poor luck has had to help itself
MURDERS and suicides by mere children
in France are reported to be very fire.
! quent Nine murders of boys and girls
under ten years of age, committed by boys
under fourteen, are noted within the past
few months. Suicides are about as nu-
merous. Two occurred a couple of weeks
ago, one of boy who hanged himself. and
the other OF girl who threw herself into
the Seine.
being experimental with in London. 1t
consists of placing the surface of the
picture, be it canvas or paper, in a
vacuum, thus protecting it from atmos-
pheric action. The picture is enclosed in
a metal frame or a case. covering the back
and sides and projecting from the sides
like an ordinary frame. A plate of glass
is inserted in the edges of the case. Just as
in an ordinary frame and Theoretically
sealed to the metal. The air is then with
drawn from between the surface OF the
picture and the glass. and the painting is
in vacuum. 1t is believed this plan will
eiiectually protect pictures from the action
of dampness. air. gases and other causes
! that operate to destroy paintings exposed
or framed in the ordinary way.
AT the aquarium In Berlin there is big
gorilla whose habits are about as correct
as those of most of his distant relatives.
He gets up at s in the morning and takes
bath, and uses soap without hesitation.
When his toilet is completed he takes a
cup OF milk, after which he eats two loaves
of bread, with Frankfort sausages and
smoked Hamburg beef, all OF which he
mois.ens with glass of Weiss beer. At
D. IN. he takes bowl OF soup. with rice
and potatoes and a wing of a chicken.
He uses his knife and his fork and his
napkin like one of our own four hundred.
but when he thinks that his keepers are
not observing him ne discards the impedi-
ments of civilization and plunges his
muzzle into the bowl as if to give evidence
of the melan choly fact that even a gorilla
can be hog.