The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-19
PERSONALS.

| The memorial tablet in honor of Dr. Horace
! Wells, the discoverer of anaesthesia, which
| aas been placed on the front of the Corning
building, Hartford, Conn, will be unveiled
Saturday
w. S. B. OBJ. Robinson. who has just been
elected judge of the superior court in North
Carolina, is SAID to be the first Roman cath
Ole to hold a state office of any kind in
North Carolina.
Henri Rochefort has an income Of about
600 year, and though he lives with great
simplicity in London he is never able to save
any money, owing 20 his generosity. He is
always ready to help those who deserve it.
Postmaster-GeneraI Bissen has received
from the postmaster at Okolona, Miss, a
letter which inclosed another letter received
at the Oko,ona postofice Nov. 26 The in
closed letter was postmarked at Mobile. Ala,
June %, 1868. 1t was carried by a 10-cent
confederate postage stamp. which had been
cance.ed by the Mobile postmaster. The let
ter was written to a captain in the con-
federate infantry and related to some sur
geon's hospital The old yellow envelope
was fairly well preserved, though it had
broken through on the edges. The letter will
go into the new museum recently established
by Mr.. Bissell in the postofice department.
Says the Boston Transcript: The plan for
the monument to George william Curtis and
a course Of lectures on American citizenship,
cannot fail to meet with the heartiest CO.
operation from philosophical citizens. The
Boston committee is made up of gentlemen
who are foremost IN promoting good citizen
ship. If there ever was a OF our day
who deserved a memorial ii was Mr.. Curtis.
His answering belief that all citizens, wom-
en- as well as men, should be given these
responsibilities Of citizenship which would
rfgbt of he
approved by his friends in no worther man
ner'
According to Stewart Culin, the curator of
the museum of archaeology of the university
of Pennsylvania, foot ball originated with
those beginners of everything, the Chinese.
Mr.. Culin IS making an exhaustive study of
games ancient and modern, and has a Curl
Gus and ancient drawing showing a person
age in the dress of prime minister playing
foot ball with Kruge. or noble, and two Of
their chamberlains. The time is somewhere
in the tenth or eleventh century, but long
before then the game was cultivated as an
exercise suitable for the training of soldiers.
About the eighth century it was introduced
into Japan where il became very popular.
From these two countries ii spread over the
entire world
President Julius d. Dreher Of Roanoke col
lege, Virginia, who is now at the Park-ave.
the work of that progressive institution. The
college has a gain of 80 per cent over the
total enrolment of last year, and the
students represent eighteen states and terri
tories and four foreign countries. As fur
Their indication Of the general patronage of
the college there are forty candidates for the
ministry, representing six den nominations. The
only Corean at college in America, Surh Be
ung Kiu is a very successful student at
Roanoke and a full-blood Choctaw is a men,
Der of the junior class. DIR. Dreher says the
annex built to the library last summer has
greatly improved the library facilities and
placed Roanoke in the forefront Of southern
colleges in this respect-N. Y. Tribune.
DR.. Dudley A. Sargent the competent di-
rector of Harvard's gymnasium, gives out
some interesting information about the
growth Of physical culture in the university
He SAYS: 1--WE have aimed to improve the
general nutrition of the students, as is shown
by the increase in weight and mea surenents
and to increase their average strength and
agility In this respect ii is interesting to
note that there are now on our books the
names of over 400 men who surpass the high
est total strength test made i'm 1880, and
there are over 100 students in college who can
run a quarter Of a mile inside of a minute,
which was the Harvard college record for
the distance in 1874" DR.. Sargent believes,
however. that the university can do yet more
to stimulate all-round physical development.
for the reason that not more than half the
students exercise regularly and systematical-
ly He accordingly suggests that the student
who, after examination by the director, fol-
lows some systematic course Of developing
exercises prescribed for him, should receive
credit for the work and be allowed to count
1t toward his degree.