The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-05
PERSONALS.

The oldest prelate in the church of En-
gland is the bishop of Chichester, who
is ninety-one.
Sir John Lubbock is probably the only
living man who has won extraordinary
distinction as a man Of business, a poll
tician, a scientist and man of letters.
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt sometimes wears
what iTTeverant young men call a "hawser
Of soltaires," which, fastened on one Shout
der, is bound round and round the bodice
of her gown.
Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving's rival
who is coming to America soon, sweeps
his hand across his forehead with ges-
ture which originated the phrase of giving
his brains away"
Ex-Congressman John Mercer Langston
the colored lawyer, who served eight years
as minister to Hayti before representing
Virginia in the house, has in press a novel
of an photographer nature.
Stephen Cambria, who married Senator
Germans sister has a son who is going
TO marry one of the senator's daughters
Both father and son are employed in gov
eminent departments in Washington.
Jack Mason of Manola fame is the son
of Daniel Mason. at one time of the pub
fishing house of Mason Bios, New York,
and grandson of the late Lowell Mason,
wen-knOwn musician and composer.
1t is reported that Miss Frances E. VIII
lard has decided not to advocate political
prohibition any longer. She thinks that the
best way to promote temperance among
workingmen is TO better their social con-
dition.
Oronyatekha, a Mohawk Indian, who
lives in Toronto, draws $1,000 a year as
supreme officer of the order of Foresters
in Canada and has an income as a prac-
IL. - L.
is suspected of being seventy
The Washington correspondent of one of
the most prominent eastern daily news
papers received the following telegraphic
inquiry few nights ago from the man
aging editor of mis- paper: who is Can
non Of Illinois? Is he worth 1000 words?'
Since the recent death of DR.. James
Kitchen of Philadelphia DR.. Hiram Cor
son Of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
is declared by Philadelphia papers to be
the oldest physician in the United States
who has been in continuous practice He
will be ninety years old next October, and
has been in active practice since 1897.
The Siberian millionaire Ponomarjeff,
whose death was announced at st. Peters
burg some months ago. left million rubies
with the direction that they should be
placed in banks at compound interest for
ninety-nine years, after which they are to
be devoted to the construction and support
of a Siberian university at Irkutsk, at
which all instruction is to be gratis.
Augustus Thomas, the playwright, is a
heavily built man, with a smiling
tenance, who does not look as though
the midnight oil disagreed with his health.
He is one Of the few playwrights in the
country who undergo the ordeal Of
first night" of one of their own plays
and not exhibit outwardiy the excitement
that must pertain to such occasion.
Perhaps the finest thing woman ever
did for a worthless man was done by the
Douglas maiden who thrust her into
the staple and held the door until her arm
broke, that she might give James of Scot
land time to escape from his murderers.
But the finest things women do are all apt
to be done out of loyalty to worthless
men. When they get control of a man
who is worth something they generally i'm
pose on his good nature.-N. Y. World
In a recent address the countess of ABB
erdeen, wife of the vicerOy of Canada.
pointed out that in Nova Scotia there Is
no line of charitable and religious work in
which women are not largely active.
This applies throughout the civilized world
as fully as in Nova Scotia. In all pro-
testant churches the influence of women is
paramount, and they are hardly less active
in the work of the catholic church. But
for their work there would not be religion
enough in the world to be worth mention
ing.