The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-10
PERSONAL.

President Arthur is fond OF Hleigh.rid
ing.
Governor Ben Butler has the Oldest hors
in New England.
Paul II. Hayne, the Georgia poet, he
interpretive eyes.
John Boyle O'Reillyi is considered tn
handsomest man in Boston.
Stanley, the explorer, expects TO cruiss
I: around through Africa until May.
Mrs. Secretary Lincoln is in poor health
and will not enter society this winter.
Hon. George A. Pest, theyoungest mem
!, Der Of Congress, is lair, fat and not ye
thirty.
Mics Margaret Blaine will be debu
7 tante this winter, as will also be the oldes
daughter Of Colonel jerome Bonaparte.
Edward Backus, who failed at Chica &c
eight years ago and went to Brazil, has re
turned and paid bis debts. lie is not in
sane.
Biamarck's voluntary reduction OF weight
from 237 to 1915 polnds;A has materially
improved both his appearance and hi,
health. III
The Statue Of the late Senator Oliver P.
Morton in Circle Park, Indianapolis, Ind.
Is to be unveiled on the 18th inst, with
elaborate ceremcniee.
Leopld Won Ranke, the historian; was
eighty.eight on the list Of this month
The fourth volume Of his Universal lis.
tory" has JUS: been published.
Queen Victoria does not intend to 20 to
Italy in the spring, as has been reported
/, Labouchete says, in his paper, that her
Majesty will not 50 ousideof her own king.
dom. ...
( Mary Anderson has just completed her
eighth year Of theatrical life. The other
eight years she attended school and alb.
sorbed knowledge. She will soon be sweet
seventeen.
The late King Victor Emmanuel is no.
forgotten by HIS subjects. Upto to the lst
Of December 10000 names had been reg.
istered on the book in tho cemetery II,
which he sleeps.
4 Col, Tom 0chiltreei is down in the Con.
gressonal Directory rs "the first native
Texan ever elected to tho Congress Of the
United States" We had thought Ken.
lucky claimed the motherhood Of the gor.
geous son.
Mrs. Senator Jones, III her fragile beauty,
is said to have been the prettiest, and
Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Blaine and Mrs. Brew
ster the nandsomest Of the ladies' who rs,
slted the President in receiving callers
New Years. 5gaf
" Her doctors having advised her to give
up hunting and sleeple'chaBing the En-
press Of Austria is going to write poetry,
and printi', too, at her own private press.
II those tasks do not prove sufficient for
her boiling oyer energies, she may read the
poems aloud to tho assembled Court.
Miss Bale Patterson, granddaughter oil
oil the late ex-Presiaent Andrew johnson,
who resides ut Greenville, Tenn, is en-.
gagged, so report says, in writing thrilling
novel, portraying some Of the marked
traits Of character OF one or two ruegedlv
honest and plain spoken East Tennesseaus.
Mrs. Brewster, the Attorney Generals
wife, Is the beauty Of tho cabinet families.
She is Of medium height, with well.
rounded figure. Her complexion Is fresh
aud rosy, adding 10 the natural sparkle Of
her bright brown eyes. Her hair is nearly
white, aud she wears it in loose Montague
curls about her face,
8 United States Senator Wade Hampton,
.f South Carolinn, is not handsome, bu,
good looking. He has not attempted to re,
place the Ley he los. since the war, He
walks with the assistance Of crutch or
cine. He does not look unlike tho dead
Burnside, except that his head ia mt 20
large and that his whiskers are OF q differ.
ent tinted gray. Els is a very graceful
speaker, and n pleasant companion,