Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-23
PERS ONAL.

Rome has not been for ten years SO gay
and brilliant with foreign visitors as at
present.
Many of the Faubourg st. German
swclls have ceased to spend the winter in
Paris it costs too much the aristocracy
of birth is receding before that Of wealth.
Professor JAMES N. HOPPIN. Of New
Haven, has been asked to take DR.. .Adams's
vacant chair as Instructor in Homiletics,in
the Union theological seminary.
The youngest son ofM. DE LEssEPs was
baptized in Paris, the other day, by the
name Of Paul-Marie. The old gentleman
was married ten years ago. when G5 years
Of age, to 4 lady of 20, and this is the
ninth child Of that marriage.
GAMEETTA is fat. His complexion is
that of ali Italian. His fine hair is
-sprinklcd with gray. His lips, which are
resolutc and compressed, are shadOwed by
Il black mustache, and he has also i short
gray beard His dress is far from being
that Of 4 dandy, but he wears a white
flower in his button-l,olc.
GARFIELD has ceased to open his news
paper mail and no longer keeps scrap-boOk
of articles about himself He rides to tho
postoi1ice OF West Mentor, and lie often
carries his mail back home on the pOmmel
of his saddle. 4 woman, writing to have
her husband made postmaster, told Mrs
Garfield if she would fix it. she would
| c 1Or 1,..iy
The ardor of Gen. HARRY WIRES
friends, pressing him for 4 cabinet place,
is dampened by the discovery that Oh 4
certain occasion when Harry was playing;
one of his pranks in the House and posing
himself for the admiration of the cal.
leries, Garfield came up to the clerk desk
and remarked to the rclatOr Of the Incl
dent, soto cocs, "What 4 blasted fool that
man White is,' or words to that effect.
At PATHS farewell performance ut the
royal opera in Berlin tho emperor of Ger
many went down on the stage to compli
mcnt the singer. After having praised
her very warmly, the emperor asked her
how long she expected to stay in America
Patti replied that her trip would last two
years. "Two years y said the emperor
"That is great while at my age, and ir
thanking you once more, am probabl,
bidding you good-by for the last
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Christmas Presents.
Tho future historian of the race will fint
the development of Christmas worthy O
his philosophical contemplation. No,
many years agO-witiin the memory, in
decd, of men who have not yet begun tt
grow gray-the day was observed only by
members of two or three religious dcnom
nations, and even in these the juvenile
members did not find the occasion particu
larly edifying. Suddenly, perhaps through
the mighty influx of jolly good fel
lows from the TeutOnic countries, where
also regarded most atlectiOnately and f.,
milaarly by every one, the habit of giving
presents began to bc observed, and tl,i.
rapidity, until now every one, no matter
how poor, in some way finds means to
make presents to every one to whom he
feels specially attached. The stores ar,
filled us at no other season Of til,
year, and the columns of the INTELII
GENCER grcan-ggood humorodly o
course-with the plethora Of ad
vcrtiscments of dealers in things ut
tractivc that every one wants to find. ye
has put off until the last moment and CT.
not learn the whereabouts of in any othe
way SO quickly us by reference to ncws
papers. The custom, in spite of its Occas
iOnal abuses through extravaganza, is ONT
that blcSseS all who participate in it, and IL
only its boundaries We're SO enlarged that
its bcneficiarics might always include thos'
who most need gifts it might in spite of it.
mcrrimcnt be rs truly great religious Gel
cbratiOn rs ever it was.