Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-15
PERSONAL.


PROF. MCMAsTER has finished his second |
volume of the History of the American
People"
SARAH BERNHARDT's villa near Havre, |
has been sold at auction. The furniture |
brought 5000
"PooR CARLoTTA," tho widow of tho ill
fated Maximilian, now 40 years OF age, is re-
covering from her mental malady
SULLIVAN, the slugger, got the better Of
Jack Burke In the five rounds sparring at
Chicago, but did not knock him out
GILBERT and Sullivan's "Pinafore" has
had an aggregate sale OF 1,Joo,0o0 copies.
Audran's "Mascotte" reaches 1,O00O00.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was fond of poetry.
| Shakespeare was his delight Few men could
| read with equal expression the plays of the
| great dramatist
| Miss CLEVELAND, shortly before her
brother was nominated for the presidency,
| made a prayer in public in which she asked
| the Lord to make the next mistress of tho
| White House a temperance woman.
| JOHN CoKERILL, the managing editor of
| the New York World Is entitled TO the
credit of raising the Bartholdi fund, the
manipulation OF which employs four or
five men all day long 1t is now more than
$4,000.
| VICTOR HUGO liked flowers and birds in
their natural places. Ho thought them un-
happy in pots and cages 1t gave him little
pleasure to receive bouquets, though he was
|
blooming in a field.
MARY ANDERSON is touring in English
| lake districts. She IL at present sojourning
at Lake Windermere and spends her days
driving and climbing the mountains sur
rounding this beautiful sheet of water and
!, her evenings boating.
, BISHOP SHARP, having been asked wha
there was in the Mormon faith TO bind a mar
I TO it, gave this reply: {" A religion which
+ will take me out of Cornwall mine and
4 | make me worth half million dollars i
, good enough for me-" Bishop Sharp is prob
i | ably the ablest Mormon financier
/ NED STOKES has introduced the Turkisl
o and Russian baths in the Hoffman house, a
1 New York, over which he presides. The
t are open all the year round, but are sacre
I to the ladies at certain hours. The grea
y bostelries of Europe have these baths a
It tached and they arc a never-failing source
o revenue.
CARDISALLI, the handsome young tepc
u of the Mapleson Opera company, has le
10 New York and sailed for Italy without bein
's betrothed 10 the California young lady
10 whom he was said To he engaged. II,
!. friends are indignant at his Irritation b'
81 they ought To be glad, as he is discovered
have been a social pretender and good de
IL of fraud.
QUEEN VICTORIA has made up her mil
~ TO marry of her last daughter with a gre
~ ~, deal of pomp and ceremony. She has larg
!" ly increased the invitations to the weddil
., | ana IDe DTlual cake, VIII Wtlgn III pOunC
y This big swoet-piece is 10 be built up In thr
~ tiers and to repose upon pedestal of col
- No member of the royal family OF German
Il. ~ is TO be invited TO Princess Beatrice's We
10 ding.
3, CONGRESSMAN BEN. LEFEvRE, Of Oh
buys at a second hand book store in Wa,
ton many official publications asked for
o, his constituents and of which his own 81
'' ply has been exhausted. Hatch, of Nilsson
,, Morrison and Paige buy many. Char
, T" ONcill, Of Philadelphia, about as many
10 any one, and Sam Randall has bought
~ many as 900 worth in a year He br
everything his constituents ask for, if
,oa can't get it any other honest way.