The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
PERSONALS.

Cardinal Gibbons will leave the United
States early in December for Rome. 1t is
said this visit to the Vatican by the Ameri-
can pre,ate is fraught with great ecclesias-
teal Importance 10 the catholic church in
America
Prof T. w Rhys Davids Of London, who
delivered a lecture at Cornell university the
other day on 1.-The History and Literature
Of Buddhism" is man Of attractive ap-
pearance of medium hight, with the pale
complexion and nervous manner that be
speak the student. He is an entertaining
speaker.
Larry Jerome gave the most expensive
private dinner New York has ever known.
1t was given to party of twenty and cost
$500 plate. The largest dinner was that
given by the city of New York in honor of
distinguished foreign representatives at the
Columbian exposition. Eight hundred and
twenty-five persons sat down TO the table,
and the price paid by the city was $1,000.
1t is said that enought wine was drunk
this occasion to float a good-sized steam
launch
Count V. E. de Gainville of Paris has ar
rived at San Francisco on the steam whaler
jeanette after a five years hunting trip
in the unexp,ored wilds of Alaska and the
northwest territory. All the country he
passed through was mountainous and gen.
that could be developed, and found traces
of gold on the upper Yukon river, but no
rich deposits. He was unable to discover
the reputed big Eskimo lake east Of the
Mackenzie river, but found many small
lakes in clusters
The Medical Record of New York says
the name of Prof Zacharin, the Physician
Of the late car, is unknown in medical
literature. For that reason, many physi-
clans have concluded that he is an Grant
and eccentric man, who has gained posi-
ton and notoriety because Of his blZzare
character, rather than through his merits
A St. Petersburg correspondent of The Brit
ish Medical Journal says, however that
though eccentric. the professor is distin-
guished by something more than eccen-
tricity. He has the most extensive and
lucrative consulting practice in Moscow
he is an author of Clinical Lectures"
which is a classic in that count try; and he
has done more, it is asserted on the best
authority, to raise the status of the medi-
cal profession in Russia than any other
man living.
William IT. Adams C'Oliver Optic'). who
is now seventy-three years of age, has
lived in Dorchester, Mass, for thirty years
and during that time has written 126 books
and 1000 newspaper stories. How he came
10 adopt the pen name Of "Olver Optic"
ne feiateS uluer pTOteSts AOI ne says ne mas
told the story about two thousand times.
Some time before the war; he says,
there was play at the museum in which
there was a. burlesque character named
DIR. Optics The name struck me as ap-
propriate, and 20 some doggerel verses
which 1 wrote shortly after for a weekly
society paper 1 signed the name oliver
Optic NJ D.. member of the Mutual adj
miration society," 1 then applied the name
to books, which had a great sale. 1 had
gotten tired of the name and asked Mr..
Lee, my publisher, If he couldn't get rid of
it. No, he could not think of that, it had
become too popular. Ny assumed name had
gotten the start of me, and 1 had to hang
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