Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-27
PERSONAL

AUGUST BELMONT is brusque and over
bearing, but generally chivalric.
JOHN BRIGHT, tho Liverpool Post an
nounces, will soon be married for the thirt
time.
JAMES PAYN, tho English novelist, il
said to 90 strikingly like Talmage in per
sonal appearance.
THE KHEDIvE of Egypt has takon VI
his summer residence in tho Ras-cl.Til
palace in Alexandria.
ROBERT BURNS shoes arc on exhibitio,
down in Maine, and half dozen Yankee
poets are vainly trying to get into them.
BARON HENRI DE WORMS is rich Jew
NJ. p. for Greenwich, ambitious, it is un
deTstOOd, Of y social and especially O
royal recognition.
LORD ROBERT MONTAGUE, brother o.
tie Duke Of Manchester, has gone back to
the Anglican church, from which he wen,
over to tire Roman Catholics in 1879.
PRESIDENT SEELyE in his baccalaureate
sermon al, "A Amherst mentioned the agnOstil
as ;'One who will neither grow in know
ledge nor teach others to grow"
Mrs. CRAYCRoFT, who died at the age
of ninety years at Dorking, England;
recently. was the sister of Sir John Frank
lin. Sho spent her fortune in fitting out
expeditions to search for the unfOrtuu G
Arctic explorer.
HANLAN, the Oarsman, was given pub
lie house by his Toronto friends some
time ago, but he has shut it up, because
most of his customers were men who said
:" Wa gave you this hotel - and acted ac-
c,rdingly.
GEORGE BANCROFT, Jared Sparks, J.
G. Palfrey and Richard Hillreth, the
leading historical writer's of America,
were all educated at Phillips Exeter
academy and three of them boarded in the
same house.
SENATOR EDMUNDs was surprised at the
welcome extended him when he entered
the harbor at Victoria, B. c., few days
ago. Salutes were fired, flags were thrown
to the breeze from all the flagstaffs and
the British shipping in the harbor was
gaily decked.
THEODORE THOMAS is made the subiec!
Of criticism in some communications to
the San Francisco papers because at one
of his concerts there he ''brutally denied
Miss Thursby the privilege Of responding
to 4 loudly demanded encore. His course
is defended by other writer's.
STEPHEN ALEXANDER, LII. d., emeretus
professor of astronomy at Princeton col
lege, died last evening after lingering
illness. aged 76 years. He has been con-
nected with the college for nearly half a
century. He ranked high as an author
and scientist, and for many years had
bsen a member of various foreign and
American societies,
SIR JOHN O'SHANAssY, K. G. M. G.,
and q very distinguished British colonial
officer, died recently in Austria from what
at first no considered trifling wound
worthy of no account. The boot on his
left foot caused small blister on his big
toe. This ultimately brought on mortifi-
cation, which carried off the baronet in
few hours.
Col. A. e: MCCLURE delivered tho
commencement address before the literary
societies of Muhlenberg college to q large
in the academy of music Tuesday
evening. The address was unwritten and
delivered from brief notes. His theme
was What of the Next Generation ?" and
his many pointed references to political
history, past and present, wore we'll re.
csived, especially to the young mon to
whom they were addressed.