Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-25
PERSONAL.

MISS BAYARDs shorsewomanship is rivalled
by Miss Blaines.
EDGAR ALLAN Poe hated punsters. This
much abused man had some merits.
LAWRENCE BARRETT carries $1,000 and
Edwin Booth $4,000 In life insurance.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has discharged |
Arthurs kitchen chef and hired an lrishman
cook.
ROBERT TooMBs will make the Grafton |
when Alexander ii. Stephens remains are |
reinterred In the grounds of his old home |
"Liberty hall"
g. HUDSON MAKUEN, OF the National
School of Oratory, Philadelphia, will read in
the public hall, Atglen, Chester county, on
Friday evening.
JOHN TYLER's widow, II is complained,
does not give his own daughter--her step
| daughter-any of the pension which Con-
| gress voted to her.
Prof. HUXLEY, burdened with years and
| worn with toll, will presently abandon some
| of the most active employments i'm search OF
| rest and recuperation.
| BLAINE's second volume is nearly ready.
| Tho first sold 100000. Grants memoirs
start with an edition of 100000 and are ex-
| pected to go to a million.
Mrs. BURNETT, after a long rest, is at
work again. 1t is most charming serial for
"St Nicholas" a story for children, which
will be her masterpiece.
ToURGuENEIFF used to say "the trouble
with us Russians is that we have the Tartar
so close behind us. We put Partisan kid
| gloves on instead of washing our hands"
Miss MARION LANGDoN, the great beauty
and million-heiress, OF New York, Is to marry
Mr.. Richard Peters, of the Philadelphia club
who has been devoted to her for two sea
sons.
w. d. HowELLs is said TO have sketched
his wife's family, the Meades I'm the dainty,
, luxurious exclusiveness of "the Careys" In
in his new novel, The Rise OF Silas Lap
| ham,"
SARoNY, when he wants a perfect foot fol
a model, places ten dollar bill between tho
. two first toes; If 1t drops out he retains thu
, subject but If 1t sticks there he tells the per
u son to walk away with 1t.
e GALUsHA A. GROW says: at was a mis-
G take on the part of the constitution makers
not to provide for the election Of all stat
officers at the same time and make tbei
o terms Of office the same length"
(. ARCHIBALD FORBES, speaking OF men VIII
q were born with genius for war, ". ,crs
:, for poetrh names as the opl4r1two r1wo 'heaven
~ Aarpss ss2 q DC last thirty years
Skobeleh and Stonewall Jackson.
GEN. b. +. BUTLER is quoted as saying
~ rather like one thing i'm this man Cleve
,. land. He is sending the Rebels and Copper
: heads out Of the country. / always though
, Andy Johnson ought to have done that righ
l after the war;"
@ DEXTER SMITH, author of " Put Me in NJ,
n Little Bed" says he never got more than 81
|
There's Grape at the Door - though the pub
fishers made thousands out of them. Smit
o is satisfied, fer he wrote them only as " pc
$ boilers and got the price he asked.
VICTOR HUGo was admired, but only hal
liked the English, whom he liked none TO
l. much. In Berlin and Vienna his death call
y out many high tributes. Hugo bequeathe
$4,000 to the poor. He left request that hi
J. body should be conveyed to the grave in
10 "pauper hearse," without any religious rite'
n In the document containing this reque'
n Hugo aflirms his belief in God. A fund ic
N a national monument to the dead poet has a
a ready been opened.
y CAROLINE MATHER LESTER, of Rochestt
- N. ", who spoke'five languages and had
rs fortune, married in 1872 Russian count i
n spite OF his spendthrift ways his wife col
Of tinued to love him, and they were eve
IN an afIectionate couple. Nine childre
10 were born to them, one of whol
10 y, died while the family were in Europe, an
y another, aged years, died few weeks ag
at The wife and mother died lately, and Il
" courts have appointed a guardian to say
rs what is left of the children's estate from
ts spendthrift father.