The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Rev. B. Fay Mills has resigned his Uni
tartan pulpit at Oakland, Cal
The back tax case against the estate of
Senator John Sherman in Mansfield, o., has
been settled for $4,000
A striking feature OF Louisiana's sugar
exhibit in the Palace of Agriculture at the
worlds fair will be life-size statue of
Miss Louisiana, chiseled from pure white
sugar.
At the Mormon yearly conference In the
great turtle-back Tabernacle of Salt Lake
City one apostle after another forbade the
saints to have anything TO do with spirit
ism or Christian Science.
Senator Matt" Quay at seventy years OF
age is full OF vigor and he often takes a
six-mile walk before breakfast He de-
clares that at the close OF his term as
United States senator he will retire to pri-
vate life.
The Duchess of Marlborough believes
strongly in physical training for children,
and her own two sons, the Marquis of
Blandford and his little brother, Ivor
Charles, are undergoing course of in
struction daily at Blenheim Palace.
Lady Henry Somerset, the English tenn
perance and woman's rights advocate. is
consistent in all things. She keeps only
women servants in her house and on her
estates. Tall women are her footmen. a
stout woman Is ner Dutier, ana women
have charge of her stables.
The Rev. Granville Lowther, who was ex-
PEELED from the ministry and fellowship Of
the Methodist Church by the Kansas Con-
ference in 1902 because he entertained and
expressed socialistic views, has been re-
stored to his former estate by the confer
ence at Syracuse, n. Y. whittier he had
gone to reside.
George j. Gould, the railway magnate
and millionaire, is credited with a desire to
go to Congress from the New Jersey dis
trict in which his summer home Lake
wood, is situated. Another Eastern million
aire, Alfred +. Vanderbilt, Is being urged
by residents OF Portsmouth, r. l., to go
into politics in a small way.
Morris Bailey, for thirty-eight years a
practicing physician of Titusvilie Pa, eel
ebrated his eighty-fifth birthday recently
In a novel manner On his books were ac-
counts uncollectable, extending over nearly
half a century Of time, and amounting In
consigned to the flames on his birthday. He
has s10G coo worth OF accounts remaining
which he expects to settle" in the same
manner.
On bracket in Edwin Booths sleeping
room, at the Players Club. New York-the
apartment remains as he left it ten years
ago-stands battered skull which the elder
Booth. and afterward his son Edwin, used
to soliloqu.ze over in the fifth act Of Ham
let" There Is a grewsome story connected
with the coming of this relic into Booth s
hands. story which Thomas Bailey AID
rich will tell In the September Century un-
der the title OF Poor Yorick."
There is, perhaps, no elevator In the world
more exclusive than that provided at the
Capitol at Washington, d. c., for the SUI
preme Court of the United States. That eIe-
and no one else would for a moment con-
slider entering IL except as the guest of one
of these eleven. privileged men. The fortu-
United States Supreme Court, the clerk and
the marshal OF the court. The elevator goes
from the ground floor of the Capitol to the
main floor, which is located the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
The most interesting object found in the
tomb OF the Pharaoh Thothmes Nv by Theo-
dore Davies. who has been excavating in
the valley of the Tombs at Thebes. is the
chariot of the dead monarch. The body of
it alone is preserved. but In a perfect con-
dition. The wooden frame was first covered
with papier mache made from papyrus. and
this again with stucco. which had been
the battles fought by the Pharaoh In Syria.
The art is of a high order, every detail be-
ing exquisitely finished. and the faces OF
Syrians being clearly portraits taken from
captives at Thebes. The chariot Is In fact,
one of the finest specimens OF art that have
come down to US from antiquity. Along
with the chariot was found the leather