Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-04
PERSONAL.

IL Is OlllCldlly aNHOuUCcu CildC Tie mar
riage of tho Austrian Crown Prince RU
DoLpH and the Princess STEPHANIE, o
Belgium, is fixed for the 10th of May.
At a meeting of the directors of tho
Western Union telegraph company Cor
NEL1Us VANDERBILT resigned as directo,
and General EcKERT was made a member
Of the executive committee, in place of S
F. Barger, resigned.
About a hundred leading citizens of
Philadelphia united on Saturday night in
a grand banquet and the presentation of a
gold medal to JOSEPH L. CAvEN in toker
ofhis eminent services as a municipal re
former. F. B. Reeves presided, and Col
Mcclure responded for the independen,
press. All parties were represented among
the guests, and the company spelled Re.
form with big "R."
There is new member of Congress re.
Gently elected from Casey Young's Mem.
phis district. He brushes his hair q Ia
Pompadour, wears white CATERS and al.
ways sits conspicuously at the middle en-.
trance door of the Senate, occasionally
calling to him Republican senator to give
him advice. He has called on every mem
Der Of his party in the city and has begun
his career of political leadership by writing
letters. He has qualified himself for his
arduous duties by selling dry goods in
Memphis and in successfully passing
through the yellow fever epoch.
Mr.. RICHARD GRANT WHITE, the phil
ologist, recently coined a word to express
the common defect of using, in converse
ton, different word from that which the
speaker intended to use and thought he
was using. Mr.. White calls it heter
ophemy, an appropriate compound of two
Greek words. The New York Eoenino
Post calls attention to the fact that the
like defect occurs as frequently in writing
as in speaking, and asks for a word ex-
pressive of it. The word is easily found
taking heterophemy as guide. 1t is het-
geography Washington Republic.
Mrs. Oliphant, an old friend of both the
CARLTLEs, has an article in the current
number of Wdcmilian's on the Reminis-
which attracts much attention.
She maintains that Carlyle never intended
their publication, as proved by Mr..
Froude's admission that Carlyle forgot
all about the sketch Of Edward Irving.
Mrs. Oliphant insinuates that he neglected
his wife, and had some occasion for re-
morse on her death. She was left out of
Ill his invitations to grand houses, and
she used to make bitter remarks there
upon. She spoke of his Frederick, the
Great as ''the valley Of the shadow of
and looked upon his weak
,esses with sort of affectionate contempt.
Carlyle died worth e4O,0OO.
Miss LOUISE MONTAGUE, member of
;he variety-theatre profession born in New
York, aged 81, has been selected by Mr..
7orepaugh as the winner of his prize of
10. 600 for the handsomest woman in the
country. In complexion she is a semi
'runette. Her lips are cherry, teeth regu.
ar and pearly, and visible at every smile
brough large but not dispropo.tionate
,outh has large expressive brown eyes,
symmetrical nose and an intelligent cast
f countenance. In conversatiou-and she
possessed of fund Of sparkling talk
very feature is animated, and her flashing
res and health-tinted cheeks, coupled