The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE late Lord Seafeld's estate extended over 31O-
600 acres, with an annual rental of 10000.
LORD DERBY is to have the garter worn by the late
Duke of Buccleuch. The Duke who was the 675th
knight elected, received it the death of Philip
Yorke.
THE recent cyclone in Burmah, according to the
latest reports destroyed 1000 dwelling houses and
damaged 5000 more, and yet it is said only 25 lives
were lost.
Mrs. POWERS, a beautiful widow of West Las
Animas is said to be the weathiest catteraser in the
West. She is worth SIS, 900 0OO and is called the
native cattle queen.
GENERAL o. E. BAcBooK is supposed to have left
estate valued at nearly 81 900, 600. His family
have gone to Chicago, where they will reside tempo
rarily with a relative.
The ex-Kng and Queen of Naples will receive
fortune of over million sterling under the will of the
Empress dowager of Austria 1t will be very well
come, for they have been in needy circumstances.
NOTWITHSTANDING Lourdes entirely failed to give
eyesight to their and heir the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk steadfast in their faith now there
another pilgrimage this time for the atters health.
SINGULARLY, Samuel w Sweet, from whose estate
the orthodox American Board and the Massachusetts
Home Missionary Society expect to receive than
quarter of million dollars each, Unitarian
until his death
Mr.. FRoUDE has almost competed his biography of
Thomas Carlyle. The work which will be the chief
attraction of the publishing this year, will
consist of two volumes of 400 pages each and will
be published in the autumn.
THE Mayor of Oakland, CAL, has ordered the revival
of the old custom of ringing the curfew bell every
evening at O'clock with responses from the bells Of
the engnehouses and the police to arrest all boys
under fifteen in the streets after that hour.
THE descendant of the sacred gtree in India under
which Prince Gautama had become the Buddha, after
six years of fasting and meditation has been killed by
the streams of Eau de Cologne that the Burmese pill
grims in their excessive devotion poured aboutit
Mrs ADMIRAL DAHLGREN declares that her
and unique house in Washington built entirely,
from her designs and her statement is received
with doubt whatever since among other novelties,
she has inserted open fireplace at the head of the
main staircase.
CONGRESSMAN KELLEY boarded in the same house
| in Washington with N. P, Willis and the intimacy
which sprang up there between the two has
made all the poets writings particularly interesting to
the Judge. Some of wiliss best lines were written
in his Washington boarding house.
| THE Rev. NJ F. Tracy of Shellsburg, Ia says he
has discovered perpetual motion and has found out
! that Sir Isaac Newton crazy when he tried ia
prove the law of gravitation. Mr.. Tracy has not az
yet been heard of in the great world but
if he goes in this way he will hit the bullseye
| of fame
MRS. ALMIRA LINCOLN PHELPS the well-known
writer and teacher, will, July 15 celebrate the
completion of her nnety-frst year She is in capital
health and full enjoyment of all her faculties with
the exception that her hearing is slightly impaired
She still keeps up her diary which she began at the
age OF sixteen
! TUCSON is the pride of all Arizonians. They even
claim it to be the Oldest city in America and declare
that its origin antedates that of Santa Fe. Before
the advent of Americans it Mexican hamlet, and
still earlier it Indian village No traces of its
first occupants are to be to-day, but the adobe
houses and narrow, winding streets are Mexican.
IT indicates that matters getting better very
fast in Russia when royal guest received by the
Gear and Czarna and escorted through double line
of soldiers reaching from the station to the palace,
with all restaurants and saloons the route closed
during the passage of the royal party. Repression
having failed the government would try concession,
if wise.
| OAKEY HALL is becoming quite we'll known figure
in political society in London. His lectures ON the
municipal failngs of New York continue attract at
tention and in view of the efforts being made to
reorganize the city government of London they ex-
cite little comment. Mr.. Hall expresses himself
being perfectly satisfied with his professional prog
ress since his arrival in England.
A GERMAN now resident in England says that
having served for six years in the German army he
confidently say that the military system of that
country constitutes the most cursedy tyrannical form
of slavery that ever disgraced civilized nation Is it
| any wonder that England and the United States
completely overrun by Teutons anxious to taste
| abroad the sweets Of freedom which they can never
enjoy at home.
| A BELGIAN town has just paid somewhat doubtful
compliment to Sarah Bernhardt. street in the Com
mune of st. GILES has long been known the Rue
St. Bernard, but a lacising Municipal Council has
determined to suppress the St., and to name it Rue
Sarah Bernhardt. The alleged by the Council
for this choice that the street in question is long
and very narrow and is accordingly in keeping with
the personality of the great actress.
| THE name of John Harvard, formerly of Harvard
College, has recently been found to have been twice
entered on the books of Emanuel College, Cambridge,
England the first entry being to the effect that he
tered the college in 1927 and took his M. A. degree
in 1886 the other that he had entered in 1923, and
became NJ A. in 1886. The entries further show
that he resided in the county of Middlesex whereas
| it had been supposed that his family from
Southwark.
! CONGRESSMAN ROCKWELL, of Massachusetts,, has
identified the unnamed portrait among the pictures of
the Speakers of the House in the lobby behind the
House of Representatives, in Washington that of
Theodore Sedgwick, of Massachusetts,, who
Speaker from 1899, to March, 1901. Mr.. Rockwell
found in the Congressional Library history of Berk
shire county, Mass, published in 1929 which con-
tains portrait of Mr. Sedgwick and his identification
was based the resemblance between the faces in the
| portraits.
| THE Atheneum QIondon) reports curious dis
covery made by the dean OF Emmanuel College,
Cambridge concerning the Rev. John Harvard,
founder of Harvard College. This is that his
yos t,ica an+ara1 i'm he collage books to the
effect that he entered college in 1927 and took his NJ
A. degree in 1885, and again that he entered in 1923,
| and became NJ A. in 1886 The entries further