Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-15
PERSONAL.

PRINCESS REArFICE suffers much from
rheumatism.
WN. X. NANpERBILr'~ fine house is for
sale. He went short At the wrong time.
PRoF. BENZ. SILLIMAN, the famous Yale
professor of natural science, is dead at the
age of ~.
ANDY SHUNAN is the dark horse waiting
To be unblanketed in the race for the I. =
scnatorship in Illinois.
DIR, JOHN L. ATLEE, OF this city, has been
reelected one Of the managers of the Phila-
delphia House of Refuge.
FRED DoUGLAss tells his colored friends
that they will never prosper aS long as they
rely on politics and politicians
ROBERT BROWNING, who has been
widowCr for twentv-four years, is about to
marry again. He is - wears old.
GENERAL" BooTH, ofthe salvation Army,
recently advertised for 4 clerk who "muSt
write shorthand and he fully saved
Mrs. ALLISON, mother OF joaquin Miller,
has been deserted 10y her G2-ycar-Old huS-
band to whom she was married about a year
ago
CoLENNN, the great mustard man, SAYS
that he has not made his fortune out OF
mustard eaten, but out Of mustard wasted on
plates.
THE REV. JoHN .. JOHNSON. son-in-law
or the late Edw. Darlington, having accepted
call from the Reformed church. in Norris
town, whence Rev II. VI. Kietter removed
To Eastun, arrangements will soon be made
for his installation.
FREDERICK MouRHARpr, a wcll-to-do
brewer of Milwaukee has been arrested on
the charge OF abandoning his wife and three
children. The wife died a week ago Of sick
ness and starvatiOn--tOo proud To make
known her troubles.
CHARLES REApES friends propose build
| ing a church Ia his memory, and many
promises of support have already been re-
/ Gl1tr atlf tfFBVs q ~
! carried out, the first pastor will probably be
hiS nephew, the Rev. Compton Reade.
DAVID DAVIS is very sensitive to ridirule
lie was IN early years man Of violent pas
sluns, and on one OCCASION throw a fellow out
of window who had inSuIted him The
poor wretch was crippled for life. aud to this
day Judge Davis regrets that no did not
control his anger.
GEN. Fremont, at the age of - is about
to start for Mexico in the service of a com
Iany that has brought trile of ten million
acres Of land there. After examining the
titles he will head an exploring party to sur
yey and fix the boundaries Of the vast tract
He is To receive a salary Of Sl0, OOO and liberal
commissions. He is poor, but vigorous
JOHN RUsKIN's parents, when the lad was
IL wears of age, was divided between wishing
nm to be bishop and wishing him TO be
poet laureate. The rising genius of Tenny-
son did not check their aspirations in the
latter direction. The hoy at that time was a
prolific writer of rhymes. most OF which
have been preserved to the present day.
WALT WHITMAN is above the average
height; his hair and beard are long white,
but the blood beneath tho skin gives a ruddy
almost maroon tinge 10 his face. 1t must
have been a beautiful face once, and even
now as he talks the lines of age fade away and
the beauty of its youth becomes again visible.
The eyes are blue-gray, and the forehead
prominent above the eyes, but not high.
mentioned as giving To friend a pretty
calendar of her own making. She wrote the
short selections, admirably chosen, on fine
parchment paper, four inches by two. These
leaves were made into a tiny book with
Russia leather covers, which were fastened
by bands of ribbon on cardinal plush panel,
ON the top Of which hung a bunch of the
friends favorite flower.