The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-02
PERSONAL

n. CheVreul was q deVout Christian
all his life.
Prof. J. P. MahafTy, CT Trinity College,
Dublin, isComing over To lecture at Chau'
tauqua this summer.
The venerable DR.. S. S. Laws, long
President OF the Missouri State Univer-
sity, has rendered his resignation, to take
effect on July l next
Word comes Of the death, at Press.
burg, Of Bishop Hyacinth Ronay, one Of
Kossuth's closest friends and most faith.
full followers. He was the Austrian En-.
press's teacher Of Hungarian.
The Rev. DR.. George Thurston Bedell
has finally resigned the Protestant Epis.
Copal Bishopric Of Ohio, for the duties OF
which Ill health has long inCapacitated
him. His successor will be chosen this
month, at Toledo.
There Is living in New York, at tho
Baptist Home, In Sixtyeighth street, a
lady who was born about two years be.
fore the great event the centenary OF
which is being celebrated. She 10 Mrs,
Susan do Ia Montanye, and she has o
vivid recollection Of Washington's ad.
ministration.
At the request OF Governor Robert L.
Taylor, Of Tennessee, Dir. George w.
Chllds has consented to loan to the
Scotch.Irish Congress tile harp Of Thomas
Moore, now TO be seen at the Philadel.
pliia Ledger office. The instrument will
be on exhibition at Columbia, Tenn,
where the Congress will assemble May 8,
"when l was in Munich" says a
Critic writer, II lived in the house OF
one OF Gabriel Max's pupils, a Hungarian
and spirituallst. Many we're the
iancies and beliefs that our host told uS
OF Max, with whom he and his family
had often passed the summer at his villa
outside OF Munich; but 80 interviewer
were they with his own peculiar ideas
that we were never able quite to satisfy
ourselves as TO their authorship. One oil
bis fancies was that tho spirit OF the dead
fingered always about its last earthly
ha6itation; and he could never be in
duced TO stay in a place where any one
had died. He once found that no had
lived several months In an apartment
where there had been death. One he
bundled-bables, baggage and all-in
feYeriSh haste. One Of MaK's favorite
models was somnambullst. She sat tor
the picture OF his most notable Madonna,
whether also for the Lions Bride" / do
not know. II Is only In these later years
that Max has BECOME 10 profound be-
lever, and the English vile Of our Hun.
parian host Che had much too deep a.
regard for Spirituallsm himself 10 admit
so much told Us that II was quite gener'
ally felt among the artists that Max's
extreme religious views had affected his
painting. lie chose unsuitable subjects,
and In attempting 10 make them ideal
and spiritual, often made them vague
and unreal. For, instance, tho subject
OF one OF his recent pictures 10 tho leg
end; "A maiden, nearing the end Of her
ilie, Is sitting up In bed, holding Cruz
cifix Ia her hand. 50 long has she con.
tetnplated II with her sad, possessed
eyes, 10 intense and absorbing Is her
realization Of the suffering Of the Man Of
Sorrows, that tho stlRmRtg have up.
nearcd Ia tho flesh Of her own hands % |
h those Of 81, Francis OF Assist Max
snSndS hIs winters In Munich, and bis |
simmer on Starnbergor See, the water
inp.placo made famous BY King Lud'
WIS unhappy death"
TurRE IA more Cstarth In this section
NJ tha country than all other diseases