Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-10
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
GAIL HAMILTON is to be appointed prose
laureate Of the state department.
General GARFIELD declines to tea with
the ladies. He likes lager and knows
good wine without the bush.
Ex-Attorney General DEvENs will make
trip to California and Oregon during the
coming summer.
GEORGE HENsCHEL, the singer, and Miss
LILLIAN BAILEY, also in the musical pro-
fessiop, were united in marriage in Boston
yesterday.
Senator ANGUS CAMERON was nominated
for United States senator on the forty
eighth ballot in the Republican caucus at
Madison, Wis.
Mr.. JOHN Hay, assistant secretary Of
state, has informed President Garfield and
Secretary Blaine that he will not be able
to remain in his position owing to private
engagements.
Marshal BAzAINE and his wife arc re-.
ported to be moving in :'the best society"
of Madrid. This is gratifying to the mar
shals and the madame's friendsa here
abOuts.
The name of HI. RAMsDELL, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times and editor of the Republic in that
city, is mentioned in connection with the
appointment of first assistant secretary of
the treasury.
IVORY CHAMBERLAIN, for many years an
editorial writer on the New York press,
died at his home, 612 Seventh avenue,
yesterday morning, aged GO years. He
was a native Of New Hampshire, and in
early life taught school in Buffalo, where
he subsequently edited the Commercial
Adcertsser. He was employed for many
years as leading editorial writer on vari-
ous city papers, lastly by the New York
Herald. He leaves wife, an adult son
and daughter.
FERNANDO WooD, when in Europe, was
found one morning sitting with his tall hat
and gray mOustache, in hotel at Warsaw,
a town whose people made up for going to
bed very late by rising correspondingly
late in the morning. He called the waiter
and ordered an elaborate breakfast
"Mais, Monsier, c'est impossible replied
tho man, 81 can perhaps obtain for mon
sieur little cafe, little bread; but ze
breakfast, ali, no! ze cook, he never gets
up before II O'clock" Wood drew himself
up, and in voice of thunder, and
rolling out the syllables into the
ears of the astoniahed garcon (who
perhaps comprehendcd one word il
twenty, he calculated with gcsticulations
Eleven o'clock No wonder that the
Russians subjugated Poland! IcouM sub
ju-gate Poland myse!f-;f the cooks do mo-
get up before II o'clock
Queen CAROLINE AMELIA, the widow
Of King Christian VIII, Of Denmark, dice
yesterday in Copenhagen. She was the
daughter of the late Frederick Christian
Duke Of Sleswig- -Holstein-S Sonderburg- Au
gustenburg, and was born on the 2sth O
July, 1906. She was married to Christian
VIII. OH the 29d Of May, 1915, twenty
four years before he ascended the throne
of Denmark, and soon after he had put
forward an unsuccessful claim to the
crown of Norway. She was woman Of
excellent education and exalted tastes, and
under her influence Christian devoted him
self to artistic and scientific researches sc
assiduously.t in 1882, he was elected
president of the Copenhagen Academy OF
Fine Arts. When hc ascended the throne
of Denmark in 1889, Caroline took active
part in the councils which led to tho de.
claration that Sleswig- Holstein was indis-
solubly united to Denmark. After he1
husbands death, in 1913, she resided
quietly in Copenhagen.