The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-24

living here that DIR. johnson wrot Q
''Rasselas. the Prince of Abyssinia," the
famous little book that was dashed off"
In a week to pay his mothers funeral ex-
penses.
TENNEssEEANs, inspired by Gen. Tom
Cleburne Of Nashville, are endeayoring to
raise fund of 81 900 to cancel mort
gage of that amount on the late Gen.
Kirby Smiths home at Sewanee. Gen.
Smith was never even well-to-do finan-
cialy and his estate is barely sufficien, to
support his family.
New YORK is the only state that allows
an uncle to marry his niece. In Florida
and Georgia marriage is prohibited within
the ''Levitlcal degrees" these are set forth
In Leviticus xviii. and forbid marriages
OF nephews and aunts. but seemingly not
OF uncies and nieces. No European coun-
try considers such marriage lawful.
IT is likely that Donna Isadore Cousino,
the wealthy CHILEAN business woman. will
visit the worlds fair. She is known in
newspaper literature as the Countess of
Monte Cristo, and is said to be the richest
woman in the world, receiving vast in
come from coal mines, vineyards, race
horses and other sources of revenue.
THE Princess Eulalie is the prettest of
Isabella's three daughters as well as the
most accomplished and intellectual. Her
sisters are the Countess de Girgenti and
the Infanta Psz, the later the wife of a Ba-
vsrian urchduks. Eulalie is the devoted
mother OF two sons, the Princes Alphonso
and Louis, who are seven and five years
old respectively.
The Rev. DR.. George Dana Boardman
celebrated the other day the twenty-ninth
anniversary OF his passionate at the First
baptist church in Philadelphia. He went
from Rochester to Philadelphia in May,
1861. DR. BoardmaG is the son of Bur
NAH missionary and the stepson Of the
Rev. Adoniram Judson. He made the
VOYAGE to America alone when he was six
years old, and experienced some thrilling
adventures. his ship nearly falling a prey
20 Malay pirates. who were beaten of
only with great difficulty.
THE world of whist players need not be
told that "Cavendish" is an authority
concerning that great game; they may
not all know, however. that "Cavendish" Is
Henry Jones OF England, and that he is
coming across the pond to attend the
whist congress to be held on Juns 20 and
succeeding DAYS in Chicago. Nicholas b.
Trist OF New Orleans, another master OF
the game, will attend and there is talk OF
pitting the EnglishmRn and the American
against the two best players the regular
games OF the congress shall develop.
THE largest church collection ever taken
up on a single Sunday was the offering ri
st. Bartholomew episcopal church in
New York on last Sunday. when the plates
showed a return of $4,000. The cause OF
this collection was the announcement the
previous Sunday that the church needed
some repairs and that $50, 900 was required
to make them. DR.. David II. Greer, the
rector of st. Bartholomew's. has occupied
that pulpit for four years and during that
time he has raised Sl,035, 900 for church
purposes, and all by voluntary contribu-
ton.
M. JULES SIMON has discovered the Sc.
cret of old age and he has formulated the
recipe in two words-intellectua work
Nothing. he declares, helps so materially
to conserve physical strength as mental
employment, and in proof of this theory
he points out the French Institutes as a
perfect congregation of hale and hearty
| octogenarians. In the Academy OF Moral
Sciences alone there are Barthelemy
Saint-Hilaire, Vacherot, Franck. DurnY
Larombiere, RavAisson and Bouillier. all
| living their eighth decade through labori-
ous and productive DAYS