Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-28
PERSONAL.


Judge TyNER'S place is quickly filled, as
was known it would be, by Editor Frank
Hatton, of the Burlington Hawkeys. He
was staunch supporter Of Grant at Chi
cagO.
Maryland claims to have the oldest
pensioner in the United States. She is 4
Mrs. ELIZABETH CRETZER, and was one
hundred and three years old last Deem
ber. She is the widow of John Cretzer.
who served in the war of 1912.
An American journalist not long ago
was expressing his surprise at hearing that
VICTOR HCGo, on hearing a passage quoted
from Emerson's writings, asked who En-
erson was, being totally ignorant of the
existence of any such person.
Rosa BoNHEUR, although this side Of
sixty. is said to be rapidly failing. She
docs but little work now, and is said to
greatly derIore her inability to continue,
and realize the great fame always pre-
dicted for her. She has labcred earnestly
in her time, and can surely afford to rest
upon her laurels now.
CHARLES LEvAS, who Was one Of the
Representatives of Perks county in the
state Legislature during the years 1916
and 1S4,, died yesterday at his residence
in the village Of Pricetown, aged 13
years. He was 4 large stockholder in the
Farmers national bank of Reading and
for many years one Of its directors. He
was successful merchant and leaves III
estate estimated at $4,000
Prince BISMARCK is becoming surpris-
ingly corsiderate in his old age. lie is SO
little in the habit Of considering the feel
inss of others that his alleged indisposi
ton to receive King Humbert in Berlin
lest French susceptibilities be wounded is
not a little remarkable. The man Of
blood and iron used not to be SO careful
of French feelings, and cynical people will
say that his sudden show of interest con-
ceals some ultcrior designs.
There is CONSERVATION in the family of
the Princess ROLAND BONAPARTE, the
daughter OF the late Nine. Blanc, Of Mo
naco. 1t is feared that all the millions Of
the young wife's dowry, a portion Of the
rich harvest of tho gaming tables, arc
about to slip through her princeIy hus
band's fingers. For she is very i'll, and as
the birth of an heir to the property is
shortly expected, the abiding interest
shown in her condition by the Bonaparte
family is proport;onately great.
The London Whitehall Reriem, which
makes feature ofpublishing photographs
of ladies Of beauty and talent, contains a
charming portrait Of Mrs. ". w. AsToE,
of New York, together with short bio.
graphical sketch. Mrs. Astor was for
merly Miss Mamie Paul, of Philadelphia,
her olive complexion and exquisite brown
eyes we'll entitle her to the distinction OF
a beauty of no common order. She is not
the first American lady who has thus ap.
peared on the pages of the Reoiep. They
have published several, among them Lady
Vaudeville.
A Partisan theatrical character of some
celebrity, M. L1BERT, the comic singer of
the cafes chantants, has just been drown
ed in the harbor at Marseilles while off
with some of his comrades on fishing
party. He was an immense favoritc with
the frequenters OF those establishments
and to his talents, such as it was, those
very vocal absurdities L'Amant
d'Amanda" and ella Gamma a Canada"
owned half their vogue. He used to get
himself up in the most extraordinary of
costumes. wild caricature of the reigning
fashions for masculine attire, and his dash
and verve, and real comicality used to fill
the audience with delight. And now
Alas. poor Yorick -