Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-31
PERSONAL.


STURGEON, the London preacher, is
dangerously ill with gout.
CARLYLE's house, at Chelsea, has the
gloomy sign, "to let," on its closed shut
ters.
CHARLES H. NIEHAUs, the Cincinnati
sculptor, will sail for Rome about Septem
Der l to begin work on his statue of Gar
field.
Young GEORGE VANDERBILT, the fourth
son of the rich man, is said to have the
honest ambition to become a newspaper
reporter.
JUDGE HoADLY, Ohio's Democratic
gubernatorial candidate, is lineal descen
dant of Jonathan Edwards, the famous
theologian and philosopher.
JOHN BOYLE O'RE1LLEY, the poet, is a
skilled boxer and fencer, who can spar
with the heaviest hitters and measure
foils with professional swordsmen.
FATHER R1oRDAN, of Chicago, who has
been appointed a bishop and coadjutor of
the archbishop of San Francisco, is only
thirty. eight, and is thought to be the
youngest Catholic bishop in the world.
PRESIDENT CARTER, who has given
Williams. college two years of hard work,
is going off this week for months rest,
travelling to Canada, Saguenay and Ste.
Marguerite.
TENNYsON drinks ale or wine with his
pipe; Swinbourne writes while stimulated
by champagne cocktails Burns and
Moore both loved "potheen," and Byron
was fond of brandy neat.
JOSEPH M1LLMoRE, brother of the late
Mortsn Msuvnnro nfP Pockou hoo kabn
the unfinished work of that sculptor. He
Webster, which Mr.. Millmore was en-
gagged on for the town of Concord. New
Hampshire.
H. M. BURT, the owner and editor of
Among the Clouds, published on the sum.
NIT of Mt. Washington, was struck by
lightning on Saturday night. He was
thought to be hurt seriously, but recover
ed from the shock at the end of about
three hours.
Mrs. GLADSTONE, whom Disraeli once
described as "the woman without single
rodeeming vice." devotes her life to tho
suffering and poor, who are her special
charge. She spends scarcely anything
upon herself, wearing the shabbiest of
clothes to save money for charity.
BLIND Tom is still as enthusiastic over
music as ever. 1t is now said that it has
become such mania with him as to quite
unsettle his mind. He is curious sight as
he goes muttering and grimacing along
the streets, accompanied by his manager.
Every morning, at a certain hour, he is
taken to Steinway hall, where he plays on
a grand piano for several hours.
SITTING BULL is so perfectly practical
that he prefers ready cash to historical
souvenirs. He has sold his famous battle
club to sergeant of the 7th cavalry for
ten dollars. In shape the weapon is said
to resemble an adze handle, is about two
feet long, studded with brass nails, while
from the upper end two keen bowie knife
blades protrude. In the fiat sides are set
small mirrors for the purpose of signalling,
by the suns rays.
JOHN 8. BARRY was governor of the state
of Michigan when there was about an
acre of ground around the capitol building
upon which the grass had been allowed to
60 to seed every year. Governor Barry
took great pains to have the grass cut at
the proper time, and when properly cured
he sold the hay and put the money into
the state treasury. There was only half .
dollar in the state treasury when Barry
took the chair, and it was . bogus coin.