Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-19

| MARX TWAIN smokes twenty cigars day.
CHAUNcEY NJ DEPEw has been reelected
president of the Yale Alumni association in
New York.
FRANCIS MURPHY distributed in Pitts
burg 1,500 yards of blue ribbon, TO be used
rs temperance badges
Hon. HARRISON TWEED, of Taunton,
Mass, dropped dead in his pew in church
during Sunday mornings service.
D. o. Mills, the California-New Yorker,
is reported to have bought Rembrandrs
'GHder,' famous picture, for $4,000.
| PROFESSOR WILLIAM WAGNER. the
| founder of the Wagner free institute, Phila-
delphia, died on Saturday night, aged about
| 90years.
OF the supreme court Of the United States,
measures six feet six inches in height and
| wears high hat to increase il.
Miss FORTEsCUE goes on making friends
| She has settled 800 of the $4,000 she got
from Lord Garmoyle on her mother and il
receiving therefore unlimited praise.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx, would have succeeded
Horace Greeley, as editor of the Tribune had
not his wife prevailed with him to make no
such radical change at his time of life.
EDMOND FRANCOIS RALENTIN ABoUT,
the widely known French writer and Jour
nalist, is dead He leaves widow and
eight children. The funeral will take place
on Monday. There will be no religious cere-
mony.
MRS. JULIA A. ROBERTS, a sister of the
late General Phil. Kearney, was found dead
in her bed in Baltimore on Sunday morn
ing She was worker among the poor
OF that city, and won repute as manager of
the Penny Lunch Room there.
LARRY JEROME is in Washington and
gave a dinner "Wednesday evening to Col.
James Duffy--diamond back terrapin, can
Vas-back duck, Kentucky mutton, Lynn
haven Bay oysters, washed down with the
best ginger beer to be had for money.
WILLIAM b. AsToR, the New York mil
lionaire is over six feet tall, and stout in pro-
portion complexion horid, eyes small and
blue or gray, nose long and rather sharp, and
he wears short, gray side whiskers that lie
close to his ears and a gray mouStache that
is clipped short.
HENRY NJ. WAKEFIELD, a widely known
business man of Baltimore died last night
in the Goth year Of his age. He was general
manager of the Universal Produce and Fish
exchange, an organization he projected, and
mad twice been an unsuccessful candidate
Tor the mayoraltv
CHARLES ii. T. CoLLIs, New York ;George
Brooke, Birdsboro, Pa; F. j. Dupont, VIII
mlngton, Del; William p. jerks and Thomas
q. Hood, Philadelphia; James Duffy, Ma
rletta, and John Taylor, London, are the
committee of Reading shareholders appointed
to examine the affairs OF the company.
GILBERT DIsBoRouGH, bachelor of
SpotswOod, Middlesex county, " j., makes
strange bequcst in his will TO the effect that
he gives $500 to the st. Peters p. f.. church
provided its bell is annually tolled on the
anniversary of the day of his death, the same
number OF strokes as no had attained years
COLONEL RICHARD c. HOLIDAY, of Tai
bot county, Md, died Sunday afternoon at
his residence, near Easton, Md, aged 70
years Colonel Hollyday was secretary of
state under Governors Boyle, Groome and
Carroll, and was appointed to the same posi-
tion by Governor McLane, but retired after a
few weeks service
PATTI say. she has no intention of re-
tiring from the stage, but bids farewell TO
America because she has engagements in
Italy, London, Russia and, perhaps in France
for the next five years After that she NAV
devote herself to her Welsh estate and
salmon fshing-that is if something does not
happen whereby she loses her money.
LORD CoLERIDGE says that when in this
country he was struck by the absence of
childhood. We defer TO our children, ask
their opinions, allow them to engross the
general attention, force social obligations on
them, and cut them of from Z" all the sweet
dependence of their years." making grown
persons OF them before English children have
left the nursery.