The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

UPWARD of five thousand persons slept on EPSON
Downs the night preceding the recent Derby
FATHER BEcKx has definitely retired from the gen.
eralshp of the Society of Jesus, and Father Ander
ledy has entered upon the duties of the Office his
successor. Father Beckx is ninety years old.
THE newly-elected Methodist bishop DR.. Mall alien
of Massachusetts, said at the reception given him in
Boston this week, that he started preaching twenty
six years ago salary of $3.50 year, all of which
was paid.
JOHN PRUETT WHITE, of Pittsylvana county, lost
his wife by death the Goth of April last just two
weeks afterward he married again and week after
that event he had the funeral of his first wife
preached, his second wife acting of the princi
pal mourners.
GENERAL NATHANIEL P. BANKS, ex-Govern or and
exSpeaker nearly seventy years of age is living
with his family his pleasant estate in Waltham,
Mass and taking active part in town and social af
fairs. 1t is said to be likely, the town is about to
adopt city charter, that he will be its first mayor
THE Earl of Wilton has just had his tongue cut
out He bore the operation WELL and it has been sue
cessfu at least in saving his life Hitherto cancer
in the tongue has been deemed fatal The elder
Placde, Henry, died of it, and his brother Thomas
committed suicide under the suffering which attends
it.
MRS ALMIRA LINCOLN PHELPS the well-known
writer and teacher will July Is celebrate the
pletion of her ninety-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.
PHILADELPHIA girl who has lived in Europe since
she child (she is nineteen) will create a
sensation at Long Branch, where she will pass the
summer by the extraordinary beauty of her complex
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night with piece of raw beef on each cheek. This
she has done for eight years.
IT is said that only one small herd of buffaloes re-
mains in Texas. This has been feeding on the Pecos
river in the Staked Plains region but band of hunt
is lowering about it continually, killing the animals
as fast the meat be cared for and it's days
numbered. This is the remnant of what was known
few years ago as 'the great Southern herd"
SITTING BULL visited Fort Smelling the other day.
Writing to the Boston Journal a correspondent thus
describes an amusing episode: HE was RECALLED at
the commanders table with canned peaches. He sat
up to the table like gentleman and helped himself
with his silver fork but could make him smile.
Finally Mrs. Colonel Andrews into the room, and
the moment he her he jumped to his feet clasped
her hands and beamed all over with delight. Is this
not the way to treat IndiansF'
THE Alta estates of the Emperor of Russia cover
an area of 10000 square miles, being about
three times the size of England and Wales The
Nertchirisk estates in Eastern Siberia estimated
at nearly half that In the Altai states stu
ated the gold and silver mines Of Barnaul Paulov,
Smjov an6 Loktjepp; the copper foundry at Sassoum
and the great iron works at Gavrtofsk in the Sala
grov district The receipts from these enormous es-
tates in 1892 however, were only $495 900, and in
1888 the revenue was only half this sum.
NJ DELAUNAY, of Paris has been making extensive
investigations upon the subject of postures in sitting
as regards the extremities. He finds that the Chinese
cross the left arm over the right, while Europeans
cross the right the left Robust children cross
the right over the left. Those who can not work or
are idiotic do the contrary. A great many women
cross the left leg the right Among opera dancers
some always the right leg the left but not
one the left the right habituay. Infants
under three years the left arm over the right