Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-06
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
REV. G. F. SPAULD1NG and wife left for
Watkins to-day.
POSTMASTER GENERAL FAwCETT, of
England, is stone blind.
BUCHANAN invented the terms Clog
rolling" and BOOM" as applied to
politics.
GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND don't like
Europe as well as America" That settles
it.
DORSEY is described by one of his guests
at dinner, as "a perfect symphony of carv-
ing knife and cordiality."
w. s. GILBERT, of "Pinafore " author
ship, is desperately down on cabmen and
organ grinders,
SETH II. GRANT, the new controller of
New York, was sworn in Saturday, and en-.
tired upon his duties.
Ex-GOvERNOR HARTMAN, of New
Hampshire, is so ill that his recovery is
doubtful.
G. EDWARD ScHNABLE, artist of Phila.
delphia died yesterday morning in the 63
year of his age.
HENRY WILLARD. himself Bavarian,
has whole company of distinguished
Germans coming across to help him open
the Northern Pacific railroad, to be com.
pleted in October.
KING OSCAR, of Swedenand, Norway, is
constantly travelling through his kingdom,
inspecting all the affairs, and no reigning
monarch In ali Christeudom is so we'll ac-
quainted with everything and everybody
in his dominion as he.
ARCHBISHOP BOURaET, who is now
completing his forty sixth year in charge
of the see of Montreal. is ninety years old
and still strong and vigorous. He is
the Oldest wearer of the mitrs in Ame-
rica, and has only two seniors in the
world.
MONsIGNOR CAPEL yesterday preached
his first sermon in this country at the
Church of St Francis Xavier. New York,
to q large congregation. The occasion
was the celebration of the feast of St.
Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of
Jesus.
REV. j. Y. MITCHELL, D. D., after an
absence of q month. has returned to the
pulpit and pastoral labors of his (Presby.
terian) congregation in this city. He
travelled 8, 900 miles during his vacation
and preached four times, including q ser.
mon before the Wiunebago presbytery.
OSCAR WILDE's lectures develop the fact
that he is almost as poor in adjectives as
the Vessar college girl. 1t is said he used
lovely' forty. three times, "beautifur'
twenty six times, charming" seventeen
times and handsome" once. How often
he mado use of capital "I" it would be
difficult to say.
THACKERAY is mado to tell the story of
<L4 os
ransacking my head,' he says, " for a
unawares in the middle of the night, as if
a voice had whispered, vanity Fair!' l
jumped out of bed ard ran three times
round the room shouting out VANITY
Fair ! Vanity Fair ="
QUEEN Verona is very angry with the
Duke of Teck on account of the scandal
brought upon the royal family by having
his household effects sold out by the
sheriff. Such was the real character of
the late auction in Kensington palace, at
which a number of distinguished people
had the pleasure of seeing under the
hammer the presents which tLey had made
to her royal highness, the Princes Mary of
Cambridge, when she was married.
LANGTRY will remain in London for a
short time then she will go to Saudring
ham to see her very particular and valua-
BILE friend, the Prince of Wales. Her stay
will be prolonged as far as the rules which
govern matters OF this kind will permit.
unless the princess should suddenly lose
her good nature and object. After leaving
Sandringham Mrs. Langtry will make an
extended tour of the great country man
sions, her appearance as guest of royalty
being signal to those who follow its wake
to invite her and heighten the attractive
ness of their entertainments by the pro.
sence of court favorite.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, tho rich Pittsburg
manufacturers. who seeks to ride into
literary fame by his book, called can
American Four in Hand in Britain" met
Gladstone on the tour which his book
describes and was SO impressed that he
could nor refrain from applying to him
these lines from Milton
Aspect he rose, and In his rising seem'd
A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven
Deliberation sat ahd public care
And princely counsel in his face yos shone
Majestic though in ruin.
"Why we laugh" is that these lines we,
written by Milton to describe Beelzebub as
he rises in the councils of Pandemonium
Printers' Picnic
To- day the Lancaster Typographical
union No. 20 are holding q picnic at
Rocky Springs, which is being we'll at