Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-26
PERSONAL.

Mr.. SANTLEY, the singer, who has been
in failing health for some time past, has
goao to Italy to recuperate.
From the peaks of the Catskills Uncle
TILDEN peeps into the promised land !;
while TESNYsoN makes pilgrimage to
Shakspeare's home.
Count WILHELM BISMARCK, one of the
German chancellor's sons, is going to
marry Countess Helene Andrassy, daugh-
ter of Count Andrassy.
Miss JANE STUART, the daughter of Gil
bert Stuart, has brisk step, gracious
manners and brilliant dark eyes, though
now past eighty. Sho still works in her
Newport studio.
ABBY F. GOODsELL, of Chambersburg,
has accepted the position of lady principal
of Vassar college. She is the first gradu-
ate of the college who has reached 4 place
in the faculty.
On the 18th of August, at Osborne
house, Sir EDWARD THORNTON kissed
hands" of the queen on his appointment
as ambassador to St. Petersburg, and the
Hon. Lionel Sackville West as minister to
Washington.
Prince GORTsCHAKOFF, though he will
spend the autumn in France and the win.
ter at Nice, will not give up his diplomatic
activity. The Russian foreign Office de-
cides no important question until it is
first discussed by the prince.
Mr.. w. 3. SoMERvILLE, who for twenty
years past has maneged the business re.
lations of the Western Union telegraph
company with the newspaper press of the
country, has resigned his position to re-
enter upon the work of journalism.
A new slab has been fixed over BYRON s
grave at Hucknall. The number of visi-
tors to the tomb is as great as at any time
since the funeral in 1924 The names of a
large number of Americans are recorded
| in the visitors album.
The London Spectator says of Dean
STANLEY: "What Mr.. Arnold translates
the sweet reasonablcness of Christ was,
perhaps, more perfectly embodied in the
Dean of Westminster than in any other
conspicuous man of our age.
Mr.. w. C.. GREGORY. of the Massa.
chusetts rifle association, in what is known
as tho "Victory Match" at Walnut Sill
range, made the best scoro on record at
800, 900 and 1000 yards. He made 3e
bulls eyes before breaking, and scored
224 out of possible 225.
Queen ISABELLA, of Spain, is staying at
Spa under the title of "Princess Isa'
BELLE" Deposed or retired sovcreighs have
invariablc laid aside their titles, and it is
offensive to the French and Germans that
the English writers should speak of the
widow of the late ex-Emperor as the
Empress Eugenie.'
Professor V1RcHow's appearance at the
Medical Congress in London was the full i
fillment Of the first of series of such
engagements. He is on his way to three
other scientific congresses, and in the
winter he is going to amuse himself in
conducting excavations on the slope of
Mount Ida in the Troad with DR.. Schlie
mann.
ME1ssoN1ER, the artist, is very ill and
bric.a-brac hunters are waiting for him to
die as his garrets are crammed full, not
only of antique furniture and bric-a -brac,
picked up at odd moments by the great
painter, but also of drawings, sketches
and studies, each one of which will be
worth considerably moro than its weight
in gold when Meissonier finally bids tho
world goodnight.
Near the river Dee, on the borders of
Balloohbine Fo1est, in Scotland, Queen
VICTORIA has recently had built chalet,
with large verandas and three sitting
rooms, two for herself and one for the