The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-28
PERSONALS

Ivy Baldwin, the aeronaut, has Joined
the United States army under Capt. Glass
ford of the balloon and signal corps, and
will teach the boys at Fit Logan aeronaut-
les.
To DR.. Roux has just been awarded the
Audriffet prize of 1900 francs by the
French academy of moral and political
sciences for his discovery of remedy for
diphtheria-
Prof. Ogoton Of Aberdeen university, a
far-famed surgeon, has been summoned to
Cape Colony to perform an important ope-
ration at Kimberly. Only a diamond miner
could pay his fee.
Richard Croker of New York is said to
have at least $4,000 invested in horses
and turf and breeding property. while his
racing stable contains winners that have
earned nearly $4,000 for their owner.
Mr.. Gilbert Pond of Milford. Mass. one
of the ollest musicians in the country, has
just celebrated his eightieth birthday He
played with the Milford brass band at the
dedication Of the Bunker Hill monument.
Mrs Louise S. Rounds, who has just been
elected president of the Illinois Woman's
time, has worked in forty-three counties
given It's addresses in the state, and has
visited four other states.
Capt Mary H. Miller. the first woman
granted cat New Orleans, 1881 a license as
steamboat master, died the other day in
Louisville, KY. Her husband, Capt. George
Miller an Old steamboat man, survives her
at the age of eighy-six years
Prince Edward Of York's first carriage
has a new wrinkle in baby wagons 1t is
upholstered in dark green morocco, with
hair cushions, pneumatic tires for the
wheels and is so constructed that an in
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to his nurse
Hugh O'Donnen. the labor agitator from
Homestead, who stumped Pennsylvania
during the late campaign in the interest of
several republican candidates, it is an
nounced viii act as private secretary for
Congressman-elect KuIp from the Nor
cumberland district.
Count Constantine Nigra, the poet at
present Italian ambassador at Vienna, re-
lates in his latest book that as a child Of
six he once p-ayed the role of an angel at
some private theatricals, adding this COM
ment: "As a child, an angel; as a man,
diplomatist-how are the mighty fallenr'
Mary Ann Dalton of Ashland N H, is
ninety-s!x years Old, but is active enough
to supply all her own wants. She spins
weaves, and makes the cloth and clothes
she wears, the rugs she walks on, and the
sheets and blankets she sleeps under, and
molds the candles which she burns in her
house.
The banqueting house. Whitehall from
a window of which King Charles / stepped
out to his scaffold on the SOth of January,
1919, has been turned into a museum for
the United service institution. The build
ing was erected by lingo Jones in 1919. The
ceiling, painted by Rubens. is said to be
one Of the most beautiful in the world.
George converted the hail into a chapel.
and it was use for public worship until
1890.
Frau Cosima Wagner has sent to Anton
Seidl a copy of the manuscript funeral
march, IAN Weber's Grabe," composed by
her husband in 1914, on motives from
''Euryanthe," for the refinement of
Webers remains at Dresden. Wagner took
an active part in having them removed
from the cemetery in Moorfields. where
they lay, to Germany. The New York
Philharmonic society will perform the
march Dec IA, the fftieth anniversary Of
the