The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-28
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BRRAKPAsT BuDaEI.

Walter Damrosch Is giving plano nc
citals at the Hotel Kaaterskill,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Is deyotlng her
self almost entirely to prose writing,
Gen, o, o. Howard will be present a
the Weirs IN, H. veterans reunion,
Hon, William Walter Phelps, minis
ter 10 Germany, ia at the Hotel KaalerH
kill.
Edward Everett Hale Is at work upol
his biography Of James Freeman Clarke
Edgar FawCett's latest novel deal
with the humanizatlon oil q capln'
prodigy,
Sims Reeves, tho English tenor, Il
about to take another farewell oil th'
public,
Prof. Newcomb, ofthe Naval obserya
tory Of Washington, 10 still in the White
mountains.
George Balcroft's tLife Of Martin Var
Buren," Is announced for early publiCa'
ton by the Harpers.
Senator Chandler, Of New Hampshire,
will sail for Europe August 81, Tor the
benefit Of his health,
Mrs. Burnett'sn new play, acted in Lon,
don, was q failure, her hrst unsuccessful
venture in any way.
Mrs. John A, Logan and her daughter,
Mrs, Tucker, are the guests OF Gen, and
Mrs. Alger, at Detroit,
Gen, Francis f. spinner's condition
has improved 80 much that he now says
he believes he will die Of old age.
John W, Mackay, in behalf also Of Mrs,
Mackay, has denied emphatically that
his wife has ever helped Boulanger,
Professor John K, Lord, tho historian,
and Professor Arthur S, Hardy, Of Dart
month college, the novelist arc In the
Adirondscks,
Jay Gould and his entire family have
engaged three suites OF the finest rooms
at the Kaaterskill Hotel and were there
yesterday.
The new volume Of poetry which Miss
WOolSeyI ("Susau Coolidge") Is about 10
publish Is to be entitled: IA Few More
Verses"
Sir John Millais has Just finished a pic
tura OF children p~ickniCking under the
branches Of . tree, giving 1t the title Of
Afternoon Tea"
Arthur Brisbane, the young journalist
who recently resigned the post Of Lon
dOu correspondent ofthe New York Sun,
Is now to be editor Of the Erening Sun,
NJ, oarnot, President OF the French
Republic, when he drives ont is at.
tended by two orthree mounted soldiers,
whose duty seems to be to give the pres.
idential horses a chance to trot occasion.
ally.
Theodore Tilt0n was one Of the pas.
sengers on the Deadwood coach at But.
falo Bills Wild West show at Paris the
other day, and conveyed the idea 10 the
audience that he was enjoying himself.
Poultney Bigelow, son OF Hon. John
Blgelow, and editor Of Outing, has taken
his canoe Caribee to the Continent. He
writes from Berlin that his craft Is the
first American cruising canoe ever seen
on the Spree.
A black polished granite memorial
tablet has just been placed over the door
OF the house in Bayreuth where Franz
List, the great German composer, died.
The inscription on 1t In gold letters is:
Franz List, died 1885.
The London Times, in discussing Gen.
eral Sheridan's memoirs, remarks that
che saw an amount Of service and ex-
%perienced q number Of exciting adven.
lures such as cannot, probably, be
matched by the Oldest and most adven.
turous veteran now living In any
European army
The explanation Of the Queens appar-
entlys inexhaustible supply Of Indian
shawls, one OF which Is her regular wed.
ding present, is that carly in Her Mules.
ty's reign one OF the Indian princes, Ia
consideration Of his having a large and
valuable territory coded TO him, bound
himself to pay an annual tribute, which
included three pairs Of the finest cash.
mere shals, and twelve perfect shawl
HOQtH,