Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-22
PERSONAL,

OF grade must not he tolerated on the
sidewalk. They endangcr life and limb.
PERSONAL.
GARIBALDI is to have a monument in
the city of monuments. Baltimore.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is said to be
about to marry o Fayetteville, N. c.,
belle.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's wedding present to
the Duke of Westminster was q very hand
some thoroughbred riding horse.
V;cToH HUGo is said to be at work on
play With Mazarin for its hero, the first
draft Of which lie wrote forty years ago.
ADMIRAL BEACcHAMp SEYMOUR is to
have baronetcy for his well. directed
bomhardu.ea: Of Alexandria.
Mr.. WM +. CEoAsDALE, editor and
publisher OF tine Udy. Baltimore, Md., an
nounces that it Gili be published on and
after TO morrow as an afternoon paper.
The morning issue will be- discontinued.
JOHN BRIGHT, the British statesman,
has declined the Invitation to attend the
New England fair. He writes that hc has
no intention Of visiting this country, al
though it would give him great plea
sure.'
T. P. O'CoNSoR NJ. p, says of Lord
Randolph Churchill: "Churchill is not
an orator, and is so absolute illiterate-I
mean, Of course, from the scholarly point
of view-that it is reported aud believed
that he never read book through in his
life bat he knows men,
ROSE, the devoted servant of Rachel,
has just died at the advanced age of 81
years. She remained fiye-and twenty years
in the service of the great actress, accom-
panied her everywhere and closed her eyes
when she died. Rachcls two sisters,
Dinah and Leah. at her death, had taken
Rose to live with them as their friend and
companion.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD's poetry, which
was ever rather flat and sentimental, has
won the honor of royal approval. Two
of his poems. "Tho Blue-Eyed Maiden ,,
and "The Green Cavalier" have lately
been set to music by the young Princess
Beatrice, who, if she continues in her
present habits of industry, will shortly
have nice income of her own.
WILKIE COLLINS is paying the penalty
SO many writers have incurred for tres
passing upon the capacity of that most
useful but delicate and sensitive, and at
the same time most abused, organ of the
whole human anatomy-the eye. His
sight is failing and he can no longer read
or write. He is dependent upon an aman-
uensis.
NINE. DE LEssEPs has issued a curious
epistle in defence of her husband, in which
she calls upon all Frenchmen of heart to
aid him, at least by their sympathy, to
hic faC mill, hn lncn Il,
himself against advcrsaries without faith
or Law, and stands alone in preventing the
English from perpetrating tho most de-
testable and barbarOuS acts of modern
times
MIR. HERBERT SPENCER. the celebrated
philosopher. arrived in New York, Mon
Gay, from England on the steamship Ser
via. He will rest for week or SO before
receiving or calling ON friends. His prin-
cipal motive in crossing the ocean is to
improve his health, which has been failing
of late. He will visit the principal cities
on this side of the Mississippi, but it is
not thought he will 90 much further west.
II is not his intention to deliver any lee
lures.
SIR GARNET WOLsELEY, who Is i'll com
mand of the British army in Alexandria,
and who is the most successful English
soldier of recent times, was remarkable as
boy for al iron will and bulldog tena-
city of purpose. One day lie climbed q
tree TO get at an especially tempting apple,
but the branch breaking, he fel! and broke
his arm. Setting his teeth. he started up
the tree again. with the broken limb
dangling at his side he got the apple and
tainted from pain II reaching the ground.
Sir Garnet is an Irisanlan.
HAwTHoRNE's handwriting, according
to correspondent Of the Hartford
COurant, was remarkably clear. plain and
even for the most part. and when one be-
came familiar with il ;t vas very readily
read. Mr.. James T. Fields had for a long
time the manuscript of The House of
the Seven Gables -" and The Bllthedale
Romance" and they are now probably in
the possession Of his widow. They are
| almost without an interlineation, and
there is not word nr'lsrscoTed in the
: whole III them. iI,."t!:orne never in
dulyed in ita!;t: i, lis opposition.
PETER CoopEl: IS male the hero Of the
| following Interesting story: "Ncar!y
| every day ne drives tiown 20 his Office and
| stays there for a few hours. AS he comes
Oub pt HIS coupe lie Is SufrOunucQ Dy Il
bevy of seedy looking men. Each in turn
steps up to him with q Good day, Mr..
Cooper aud an expectant look in his eye,
and just as regularly the benevolent old
gentleman puts his hand in his pocket and
gives him piece of money and a Good
day to you Why do you lot those peO-
pie annoy you, Mr.. Cooper?' asked an i'm
pertinent yonog man the other day.
They don't annoy me at all, said tho
philanthrop;st. 'They are old friends of
mine, poor fellows. Many OF them have
seen better days. They don't want much
just enough fer dinner or a lunch.
When am ready to leave the Office put
a few dollars in change in my pocket and
give it to them when they speak to Iue
They expect it. you know. and wouldn't
like to disappoint them.''''