The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-19

l4s been the only survivor 81 the great
democratic political leaders in Michigan of
The period just before the war. AS judge,
governor senator and statesman he has
had a career of unusual honor.
Already Waltham, Mass. is preparing
TO erect a monument to Gen. n. p. Banks.
Il. Il. Johnson, a man OF force, is at the
head OF II. and the plan Is 10 name a new
park Banks park and 10 erect on 1t a men,
orlal shaft
The Rev. DIR. Lorimer Of fremont tenn
pie, Boston. while in England competed
arrangements for the issue of a peoples
pictorial bible history, which is TO appear
concurrently in England and America. Co
operating with him were Archdeacon Far
rar, Or. Pentecost and others.
Thomas II. Hood, known as the ''Hooser
Blue Man. died the other day at jefferson,
Ind. HIS skin was as blue as an indigo
bag. The false complexion vas brought on
many years ago by taking large doses Of
nitrate of silver as a cure for epilepsy.
He was cured of the malady. but the
remedy turned his skin blue
The two representatives of the state of
Delaware in the United States senate,
George Gray and Anthony Higgins. were
born in New Castle county in the same
year-1S40. Both are lawyers. Both studied
at the Harvard law school. both have
served In the attorney-generaPs office and
both are college graduates, Gray OF Prince
ton and Higgins Of Yale But Gray is a
democrat and Higgins is a republican.
Barney Langtry. the democratic candi-
date for secretary Of state in Kansas. is
the owner Of ranch Of 1900 acres in
Chase county The tract stretches length
Of thirteen miles on either side Of Fox
creek, which flows the year around and
furnishes an abundance of water for 5000
cattle which feed in the pastures. On his
ranch Mr.. Langtry has a park. in which
he is collecting deer, antelope, elk and
buffalo.
The ease with which F. Marion Craw-
ford turns out a new and readable novel
every few months Is one OF the amazing
phenomena OF the contemporary fiction
crop. 1t is explained on the ground that
Mr.. Crawford is a man of robust build
and vigorous health, that he is possessed
Of sufficient wealth to keep him safe from
financial worry, that he has travelled widely
and has had great social opportunities
and, finally, that he loves his work.
Mrs Henry Wood. Edna LyaI and Rider
Haggard are the three most popular writ
ers among those who take books out OF
the London free libraries. but the favor
ties are not the same in any two districts
At the Hammersmith library, where the
male readers outnumber the female though
the books oftenest taken out are Jane
Eyre" "Mddlemarch" and THE Cations"
the authors at the top Of the list are Marie
Corelli. Rider Haggard and Rita" closely
followed by Robert Buchanan and Hail
Game.
When Senator Jones Of Nevada was
miner he came near being lynched be
cause he was found inside another mans
trousers. He had appropriated them by
mistake. They were stamped with the
name y. Owens on their broadcast part.
He told those who wanted 10 hang him
that that was Welsh for Jones and they
believed il. He has always had pretty
and sometimes a vndictive wit. 1t was he
who said Of the sable emb,ems when Gar
field died: "A mile Of mourning to an inch
Of grief
NJ. Dumargin, the last person who had
direct evidence about the post-mOrtem ex-
animation of the dauphin, Louis XVII,
died recently at Clarendon at a very great
age. He wGs Gambetta's private secretary
from 1870 to the end, and later director Of
the Charenton insane asylum. His father
Of the two doctors who examined
the body in the temple, and his account
supported the theory of substitution. The
examination was N a da.lS room. the body
was unlike the portraits of the dauphin,
and there was no person present compe-
tent to identify IT, 3D..