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


| cause II paid him far better than legitimate
| journalism" " can easily turn ont two of
| these tales in year" he said, "bctwccn my
| regular work, and they bring me in an
| average of sl,2jO each" lie SAYS that he
| usually has u ground work of tact. within
| his own experience or reading, Cor his plots
| and characters. Down In \ tlanta they will
show Nou n very cosy, NinC-clad cottage in
which lives Prof Peck, who retired from
| chair in college faculty to take a salary of
| Sl0,oo0a wear to write stories for tho New York
| Ledger. | suspect that Sidney LaniCr, Paul
| II. Haync aud Joel Chandler Harris, cont
hined. mover made that much in q wear ont
| of their writings.
Mr.. Dana, Of the New York san, j. dis
posed to poke fun at the gorgeous upholstery
of the great Philadelphia editors rooms
| The apartments of the ledger, Record aud
| Tunes all certainly otter wonderful contrast
| in brilliancy with those of the Times, sun and
other New York journals, whose rooms are
| plain in the extreme, but have all the conve-
| niences Of workshops that turn ont good
work.
| There has been story put into circulation
| that when Mr. VIM. VI. Sngerly was fixing
| upon plan for his present Record building
| he submitted the decision of the question To-
| his wife's Judgment, stating the estimated
| cost of the several plans There would he
| saving of several thousand dollars in the plan
which she commended, and she gave as q rea-
| son for so doing that the amount thus saved
could he made to accomplish great deal of
| good in charitable work" Whoever tried To
| tell this story got it all wrong. To begin
| with Mrs Singerly needed to resort to
| no such device to obtain the means to accom-
| plish the "great deal of good in charitable
work" to which her kind impulses moved her:
| nor was any such purported "incident rs
| that related necessary To prompt Mr. Sin
gerlv to continue her generous subscription
as part of the income of the sum she had her
| self ConseCrated to charity" The facts are
| that when Mr.. Singerlv first contemplated
| the erection ola new building for his news
paper Office, he had picked upon the south
| west corner of Chestnut and Ninth. now oCcu-
| pied by Porter & Coates. When he men,
| toned 1t to his wife, upon whose strong iudg-
| ment he largely relied, she vetoed the site,
| because she had n superstition against cor
ner that had been twice visited by fire The
| site finally chosen met her approval and
| when the various plans were submitted to
| her she at once, without knowing the prices,
selected the CuStliest, because il was the best.
! II was her sagacity that determined the cree
| tiOn of the imposing and imperishable struc-
| turc, and Mr.. Singerly was wont to refer
| with pride to the editice as n monument to
| her superior judgment The late Mrs. Sin
!
| children, both married, were daughters OF
| the first Mrs. Singerly.
Apropos of the cremation that - to take
! place to-day, ! translate from L'Nalic,
| journal politique quotiden," Rome, De-.
| 81. 1881:
| CREMATION or An ACrRFs>lN AMERICA.
| We hear from New York, Dec n while
| old Europe 50 slowly accepts the idea Of the
| cremation of bodies, this method of scpul-
| ture has become verify among Us. We
/ have already begun to establish crematorics
| and in some places bodies await their turn for
incineation. The preference for cremation
| is not confined 10 any class of society. 1t was
! thus that recently the body Of well known
young actress, Miss Laura Clancy, came to
| he cremated at her own express desire Here
| follows description of the cremation of Miss
| Clancy's body at the Lancaster crematorium,
| Dec. = 1881. This last representation of the
| young actress attracted many people. She
| held reception to the end.
| Cremation is by no means q new notion
| There was Henry Laurens, of tho famous old
| South Carolina family, merchant Of rare
| Judgment and culture. renowned as a Revo-
| luuonlst, delegate from his state To the Con
| unental Congress and president OF ii for two
! years ;minister from the colonies to Holland;
| confined for fifteen months in British
| prison, and finally commissioner with jaw
! and Franklin, TO make the trcaty-thiS cmi-
| nent man left direction, for his body 10 be
| burned, as the best way to return its Gle
| ments whence they came. 1t was done as he
| had ordered, in rude way, but as well rs
| the facilities at hand would enable them to
! crcmate il.
! Laurens daughter became the wife of Dr.
! David Ramsay, the historian. born in LanCas
| ter county, but who removed South to
| achieve the measure Of his fame In
| literature and medicine he accomplished a
| vast deal-perhapS because he Sicpt only
| four hours out of the twenty-four Hc met
| his death on the street at the hands of a en-
! ragged lunatic to whose mental Tnsoundness
| he had testified in a judicial proceeding
| Mrs. Ramsay WAS a good deal shocked at
| the testamentary direction Of her father as 10
| the burning of her body. But his heirs res
| pected his wishes.
| Is the seven or eight hours sleep Der dav
only a habit? The Jesuits, who are an i'll
! tellectual order, accomplishing severe tasks
| get along with five hours sleep out Of twenty
| four.
Is there any Lancaster county belle wait
| ing Ito he asked to open the Inauguration
| ball? We are behind our grandmothers,
| When Madison's Inauguration ushered in
era OF greater social brilliancy than had
| prevailed during the Jetfersonian regime,
| there was ball. Robert Jenkins,
| of Windsor Forges, was our congress
man then. And it was his wife
"she was beauty in her day who,
with the British minister led the dance Mrs
jenkins was the mother of Mrs. NJ j. Nevin.
of CaernarvOn, of Mrs. Alfred Nevin, OF
Philadelphia of Mrs. Catharne Jacobs of
ChurchtOwn, and an aunt of Mrs. W. b.
tordney, OF this city portrait which has
lately been copied by one of her kinsfolk
shows her 10 have had the Dolly Madison
type Of face Alas! that we should have
fallen upon the evil days of bachelor con-
gresSmen' SISDBAp.