Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-01
PERSONAL.

SAMUEL \. LEADS, veteran OF the Mex.
lean and civil war, died in Wilkesbarre on
Monday. He was % years old.
JOHN NJ. SCHERR, of Philadelphia, will
he appointed au officer of the secret service
in connection with the customs in shat city.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, the distinguished
apostle of English sweetness and light, has
arrived in this country and will remain here
for some weeks to come, in the hope OF find
ing better health and rest.
DIR. EDWARD BROOKS. formerly of Millers-
vile. this county, delivered a polished
address on the subject of industrial art educa-
ton at the closing of the industrial art school,
in Philadelphia Monday evening.
Miss ROSE CLEVELAND has pointed out
on page 40 of her collected essays that
there doubtless is, " to all love that
rightly eliminates in marriage, an irrational
phase, normal abnormity, that may or
may not outlast honeymoon"
SENATOR KENNEDY was lying very low at
his home in Philadelphia, on Monday night,
and his friends fear the end cannot be far
distant Late Sunday night he had a severe
sinking spell, from which he had only par
TALLY recovered Monday evening.
OSCAR II. COOPER, Just chosen superin-
tendent Of public instruction in Texas, is
only twenty-eight years OF age. He is a
graduate of Yale of distinguished ability.
The school fund OF Texas is larger than that
OF any other ten states in the Union.
The LATE SENATOR MILLER, of Califor-
mia, who was long reputed to be worth a
couple of millions, said to have been made out
of his connection with the Alaska Seal COM
pany, LETT an estate which has inventoried
less than 100000. 1t is very customary to
overestimate the wealth of public men, and
it il rather the rule than the exception, when
rich man dies, that his estate is worth half
the money the public estimated him to be
worth.
Mr.. HANCHETT, who Is to marry Miss
Murfree, the novelist, is Syracusan by
birth. He gave good deal of attention 10
music in his youth and gave promise of be-
coming an eminent pianist abandoning his
profession, however, he took up the study of
medicine and took his degree two or three
years ago of late he has gone into the stock g..
raising business He still retains, however,
his fOndness for music and is sometimes
found at the organ desk of New York
church.
VICTOR EMMANUEL, of Italy, and one OF
his mobiles were once compelled TO seek
shelter for night in peasants hut. The
king, noticing that his companion kept turn
ing his head away from their host, asked
what was the matter. 'EThis man smells
like wild beast l cannot stand it," replied
| the other. "Nonsense," said the king, lone
of US would smell the same il he went a
week without washing" "Never ~ "To
prove it," said Victor Emmanuel, "I'll try il
myself" At the end OF five days the noble.
man came into the royal presence and said,
"four majesty was right"
EPHRIAM GRIM, one of the wealthiest
and most widely known citizens of Allen
town, died Monday morning OF peritonitis,
after a brief illness. lie was born in 1919,
| and since he was twenty years of age had
been engaged in the mercantile business. lie
was also largely interested in numerous local
enterprises and was connected with banking,
insurance and other institutions. For twelve
years he was treasurer of the Lehigh County
Agricultural society, and was one of the in.
corporators of the Allentown bank. lie was
the first person in Allentown to subscribe for
telegraph stock, which was shortly after the
early lines Mere pnl in OnaTatlnn.