Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-22
PERSONAL.

SENATOR MAHoNE, when unarmed is
said to weigh ll0.
DANIEL d. BARR, the well-known Pitts |
burg Democrat, has been appointed collector
Tor surveyor) of customs ut that port
AINswoRTH SpoFFoRD, librarian of the
Congressional library, has been there since
| 1861. He was first assistant, and was made
| librarian in 1864.
| MIR. AND Mrs. GEO. s.. KNIGHT have made
| enough money out Of cover the Garden
| Walr' to purchase a cottage at Saratoga.
They will spend the summer there.
REV. DIR. Il. II. CRAvENs, of Newark,
| N. j., was elected moderator Of the Presby-
| tcran general assembly i'm Cincinnati by
vote of $40 TO 202 for Dr. Dickey, of Philadcl-
pha.
| SARA BERNHARDT's company gets Si0,0
for single performance of Theodore In
| Munich, at which Bavarias eccentric king is
To be the only spectator. "a fool and his
money!" etc.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE thinks that "in
| these days the church has something to do
besides singing, reading and praying"
| Among the other things, he mentioned 'hos-
pitalty, education and charity"
Miss KATHARINE BAyARp, daughter of
the secretary of state, IL the most fearless and
daring lady rider in Washington. Several
| days ago she rode over the long steeple chase
| course at the race track, taking every barrier,
including the water jump
. REV. Il. w. APPLETON, ID. d., of ST. Paul's
chutch, Cheltenham, has received from his
y | people vacation of six months, and has
y | sailed for Europe. His place for the present
8 will he taken by the Rev. Samuel Clements
@ ID.
r JonN KELLY is the only man who wa
"a | ever twice elected sheriff Of New York.
:, | sheriff cannot loo his own immediate success
- sor but az soon his successors time ha,
y expired, Kelly was again elected to tina
~ | Office
Q EDWARDS PIERREFoNT once wrote to hi
fi...lt HALL al ~
- ncr bccause you dance or tell good story
y but no one since the time of Queen Elizabet
,e ,e has been made a cabinet minister or lor
- | chancellor for such reasons"
~ EX-CHIEP JUSTICE WALLACE, of CalifOi
u, mia, has withdrawn his application 10 be mil
20 | lister To China, on the ground that he coul
o not he useful to his fellow citizens in that G:
,n pacity, because ill-feeling has been cause
~ between this government and China by que
nj tions which are distinctly OF Caliiorn
80 origin.
ar PRoF. A. s. HILL of Harvard, speaking
es | the tedious mediocrity which characteriz
Ia | the compositions of college students, sa
ho | that one year, after reading two or three hu
rn | dred compositions on "'The Story of the Tel
NO pest" he found himself in such profour
-ed | ignorance of both plot and characters that
the had to read the play 10 set himself rig
the | again.
'nS, BISHOP DICKSON was the only one of /
ris United Brethren bishops who did not VI
,ta | with the Pennsylvania members of tho GO
ference in Fostoria Ohio, for a plan whi
was adopted by II TO II to appoint comm
sion Of twenty-seven persons, consisting
the five bishops and twenty-five minist'
and laymen, whose duty il shall be 4" to e,
,.. | slider our present confession of faith n
constitution, and prepare such form of
~ | lief and such amended fundamental rules
vi the government of this church I'm the iutl
ere as will, in their judgment, he best adapted
)or secure its growth and efficiency in the We
and of evangelizing the world"