Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-21
PERSONAL.

General Ben BUTLEL. handsome Sena
tor BOOTH and Senator SHARON, thu
CrGsus are all three said to be looking
for wives.
CETEwAYO, who, dethroned, is happier
than the Gar enthroncd, has begun tt
study English. He is trying to learn tt
lead and write.
Miss BLANCHE DAVENPORT says that haC
she known what young women who so tt
Italy to study have to go through She
would never have gone. While she was
in Milan there were in that city two hun
dred and twenty five young girls whom
people at home had tlattered into the
belief that they could sing, and who were
paying high prices for being kept in that
delusion by teachers who know full well
they could never teach them anything.
Some were rich enough to afford it Others
would give up and go home broken.
hearted. OF the two hundred and twenty.
five Americans in Milan at that time Miss
Davenport knows of only six who evel
accomplished anything.
An intimate friend of WENDELL PHIL
LIPS for twenty-five years has just been
telling what he knows of the renowned
BOstonian as a man and an orator. Phil
lips, though probably worth 100000,
lives very plainly in an old-fashoned
measrely furnished house, and has lived
there for thirty years, notwithstanding the
enroachments of ordinary boarding houses
and retail shops. He is a great lover of
art but he has no pictures or bronzcs OF
marbles, because he prefers to give the
money they would cost to the poor and
struggling. No really needy, deserving
man or woman ever appears to him in
vain he is constantly doing good, but he
is so secretive and silent concerning his
benevolencc that nobody hears of it unless
by accident.
CHARLES DICKENS. once wrote to Sir
John Bennett letter which runs thus !:
d" My dear sir-Since my hall clock was
sent to your establishment to be cleaned it
has gone Gas, indeed, it always has) per-
rectly we'll, but has struck the hours with
great reluctance and, after enduring in
ternal agonies of a most distressing nature
it has now ceased striking altogether.
Though happy release for the clock, this
is not convenient to the household. If you
can send down any confidential person
with whom the clock can confer, think it
may have something OH its works that it
would be glad to make a clean breast of.
Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens" Sir
John Bennett replied, giving good hope of
the clock perfect restoration.
The Stewart cathedral at Garden City is
rapidly nearing completion. The crypt
built as last resting place for the remains
of Mr.. A. T. STEWART is about finished,
having cost something like 100000. The
Herald says 'It is generally understood
in Garden City that the body of the dead
prince will be deposited in the
crypt in April, when the dedication of the
grand edifice by Bishop Littlejohn is ex-
pected to take place. Work on the me-
mortal school is also progressing rapidly,
about five million bricks having been put
in place since the laying of the corner
stone last spring. The foundation of Bish-
'p Littlejohn's residence, south of the
cathedral, has been completed, and the
'ther work is to be rapidly pushed forward
Is it is intended to have the building
eady for occupancy by June