Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-03-24
PERSONAL.

Gov. PATTIsoN has named April l6, as
"Arbor Day" for general tree planting in
Pennsylvania.
QUEEN VICTORIA has postponed her visit
TO Aix-les- Bains, ostensibly on medical
advice.
CLEVELAND is the only president who has
ever worn only mustache, with the rest of
his face smooth shaven.
Miss CLEVELAND sister of the president,
was principal of the Muncy Gycoming coun-
ty) Seminary fifteen years ago.
Mrs. MARGARET CLEMMER, mother of
the late Mary Clemmer, has died i'm Washing
ton, after an Illness of only two days.
Mrs. LOGAN is delighted with her hus-
bad's senatorial contest with Morrison causes
no breach of tLeir friendly personal relations.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH and all the
members OF the Austrian imperial family
sent congratulatory messages to Emperor
William.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas made his
first appointment in the postoftice depart
ment on Monday by selecting Miss George
S. Walker, Of Nevada, to be copyist
AIMEE remarks :"I noticed there were not
many bald heads in the audiences in the
West as in the East. Out there there are a
great many men OF fine physical type.
CHARLES w. GOULD, OF Elgin, Ill, pro-
prietor of eighteen cheese factories in Kane and
Lake counties, has made an assignment and
paral wed the dairy interests in the North
west.
S. Il. ANcoNA, Ferdinand Goetz, James
Nolan, A. NJ. Patteiger, A. X. Staufier, A. ii.
Schwartz and w. III. Reinoehl have been
appointed the commission to select site for a
public building at Reading.
CHARLOTTE COOPER, daughter of j.
Fenimore Cooper, died suddenly at Coopers-
town, n. V, on Sunday morning at nine
o'clock. Miss Cooper, who was sixty eight
years old had been somewhat an invalid all
her life.
HENRY LLOYD, of Dorchester, Maryland,
aged 26 years, becomes cX-oificio governor of
the state by McLane's appointment TO the
French mission. lie will hold until the leg
islature elects a governor to fill the uneN-
pired term.
GENERAL EDWARD Il. BRYANT, of the
Madison (Wis.) Democrat, who rose from a
private to colonel of his regiment In the late
war, has been rendered the position of
assistant attorney of the postotiice department
by Postmaster General Villas, and has accepted.
DIR. ALBERT p. BRUBAKER, formerly OF
Lancaster county, demonstrator of physiol-
ogy in Jefferson medical college, has been
elected to tho chair of physiology in the
Pennsylvania dental college made vacant
by the resignation of Professor Henry c.
Chapman.
BOB INGERsoLL said in a recent sermon:
To-day the iniidel is the leader of the inter
lee tual hosts of Christendom. All the
churches in the United States, with all their
priests and all their moral influence and all
their brute force can't even crush me, and
tell you infidelity has more friends to-day
beneath the American flag than orthodoxy.
PROFESSOR BLAoKIE thinks there is' far too
much of everything except good sense-in
these days. ''Yes; too much eating, too
much drinking, too much preaching, too
much writing, too much speaking. Sermons
would be vastly improved If preached only
once month. i care little for pol
itics" he adds /; ''attention TO politics, as ord-
nariy understood, entails too great waste
of brains.
TALMAaE says: "Evolutionists declare
that when the body dies the whole nature
dies. They say that the slab of the sepulchre
is bur wall shutting Us into eternal moth
ingness; that man, the horse, the sheep, the
reptile, all die alike, and annihilation is the
heaven Of eyolutionists ! adjure you to turn
from such stenchful and damnable doctrine.
IL is am idea filled with the chatter of apes,