Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-09
PERSONAL.

4 committee of Frenchmcn will meet
Count de LEssEps upon his arrival in
Philadelphia, and a reception will be ten
dered him by the French residents.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON celebrated the
Slst anniversary of his birthday yesterday,
and large number of his personal friends
called upon him and extended their warm
congratulations.
VI. MISSIONER, who owns to sixty
seven years of existence, has a handsome
house full of beautiful artistic objects, and
though he has earned more money than
any other painter in France. is so fond of
luxury that he is now not worth more than
100000. He receives from $4,000 to
$1,000 for portrait. His cuisine is perfect
and his wine-celler magnificent" He
paints very slowly, and utterly refuses to
be hurried when executing commissions.
Mr.. 3. G. NORTHRUP. of Connecticut, a
frequent attendant upon Lancaster county
teachers institutes, was more than a year
ago requested by General Kiyotaka Kur-
Oda, minister of the interior department
of his imperial japanese majesty, :" to ac-
cept a small token of their appreciation of
his services in behalf of japanese stu
dents.H That g small token of sincere
thanks " arrived last week in the form of
beautiful break fast, dinner and tea set
of china of about two hundred pieces,
with his initials on each. The exquisite
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time was needed to complete the set.
DR.. FRANK BLEDsoN and wife. of
BrownstOwn, Ohio, separated fourteen
years ago, and the wife procured divorce,
retaining their two little girls. The doctor
soon married again, and his second wife,
after bearing him five sons, died. Then
correspondence sprang up between the
doctor and his former wife, which resulted
in renewal of the old love and a promise
of marriage. They met and the plighted
faith was renewed, the doctor promising to
be kind and loving to Mrs. Bledson and
her children, but told her that she must
likewise be a mother to his five boys. She
Indignantly said, "Nevcr"' The doctor
took the train to join his five boys. while
Mrs Bledson took her two girls and re-
turned to her home in Brownstown.
Senator and Mrs. BLAINE gave their
first Saturday evening reception last week,
being aided in the entertainment by their
out-coming daughter Miss Alice. The
Blaines live in one of stately row of houses
of which others are occupied by General
Sherman, General Van Vliet, the Hon
Fernando Wood and Ex-Governor Swami.
Mr.. Blaine and his family have made of
theirs peculiarly attractive home, rich in
its tasteful selection of statuary and
pictures, and thoroughly inhabitable in the
aspect of every room. Without being too
large to be cosy, it is house conveying an
impression of spaciousness and capable of
entertaining many guests, its triple suite
of parlOrs facilitating this purpose admir-
ably.
SARAH BERNHARDT gave a masked ball
on Friday night at her residence on the
avenue de Villiers, Paris. There were
200 guests present and the affair was
brilliant success. The heroic Sergeant
Hof, whose bust the dramatic sculptress
is to send to the Salon, was one of the
guests. But Mile. Bernhardt's grand
ball was spoiled by rivalry with that of
Madame MUNKACzY, which was given in
Munkaczy's splendid studio. The walls
were hung with gold tissue and ancient
pictures. The doors were curtained with
matchless tapestries and old Genoese vel
vet. In the small rooms opening on the
studio there were arranged as if for Du-
buffc to paint coats of armor, choice anti
que draperies, furniture, and porcelains.
A Gothic chamber was Illuminated by
means of electric lights placed behind
colored glass windows taken from churches
during the French revolution. The
Austrian ambassador danced in the first
quadrlIc, in which figured General Torr
and Madam Adam.
Twenty- Four Men Killed.
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