The Indianapolis journal., 1890-12-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BISHOP WHIPPLE will spend the winter
IN the south of France, as the guest OF j.
Pierpont Morgan.
REPORT has it that Rev. Charles H.
Strong. of Savannah. is to be the successor
of the late Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia.
ONLY Christians are permitted to serve
on juries in Russia. The courts there hold
the intdel in derisiOn.
SIDNEY ANN WILHITE, of Sedalia, Mo-, is
106 years old, weighs $50 pounds, and was
slave to George Boone, q brother of Daniel
Boone.
Bishop VINCENT. who is slowly recover
ing from O long and dangerous illness. has
sailed for the south of France. where he
will remain until late In the spring.
OWING to his physician's advice James
Russell Lowell has Cancelled an engagement
to deliver six lectures on the old English
vanla.
JOHN Ross. the present treasurer of the
Cherokee nation, Bushyhead, Boudinot and
Others of them are college graduates, or
have been educated in the East, and don't
indulge in the Sioux ballet.
NINE. CARNOT has required the Mayors
of the twenty arondissements of Paris each
to draw up list of twenty widows having
the largest number of children whom
Nine. Carnot desires to help on New Years
day.
The Bishop of Lincoln's case is regarded
by the English Church Association, the
evangelical party, as defeat and they
have resolved to appeal to the Privy Coun-
Gil The Church Union, the rituallsts. are
satisfied.
New York since October revising her proofs
of the biography cf her husband. has now
completed that task, and IN April will go
to Colorado Springs.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT is now seldom seen
ontside his residence at Washington, d. C.
Mr.. Bancroft is in his ninety first year and
has abandoned all literary work. He reads.
however and finds pleasure in It, though
he cannot remember what ne reads more
than twenty-four hours.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM JAMES. of Harvard.
who is becoming almost as famous ont of
college as in because of his interest in psy-
chology and in societies of psychical re-
search, is a brother of Henry James, jr,
the novelist. The father of these two
famous sons is preacher.
NINE ANNE MARIE MozzoNI will stand
for eIectlon to the Italian Parliament and
is asking for subscriptions to assist in meet
ing her expenses. Mime. Mozzoni is an ac-
cOmpuSUtu dutnoTce5s anu 0cr agreeable
manners have made her generally liked
among her large circle of acqnaintances.
GENERAL MILES. while in Chicago. told q
reporter that the most interesting relic in
his possession was the weapon with which
General Custer was killed General Miles
says it makes him sad every time he sees 1t.
He may now add more pleasureable relic
in the weapon with which Sitting Bull as
killed.
WITH the death OF Senator de Lafayette
the famous family has become extinct The
last bearer of the name recently remarked:
"The family is all but dead. But what
does it matteri Our name will be forever
associated with the greatest republic and
most powerful nation the world has ever
seen, America
THE Countess Edia, whose charitable and
kindly deeds have endeared her to all the
people in Lisbon. was once Boston girl,
Elise Hensler by name An ambition "a
become singer impelled her to go to Eu-
rope to study. and not many years passed
before she became the wife Of Prince