The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-06
PERSONAL POINTS.

Ellen Ter4y has refused to take up
Ibsen's plays.
Bismarck won't go to a watering place
this summer.
Miss Charlotte NJ. Young, in her eth
year, is writing her 10lst work. III,
President Angel, of the University of
Michigan, is in New York on his wayto
Europe.
General Longstreet is to attend the
New Hampshire Veterans reunion, at
The Weirs, in August.
Gen. John Eaton, who has resigned
the presidency of Marietta College, o.,
will pass the summer at Eaton Grdnge,i
Sutton, N. II.
Mrs. Porter, the widow Of Admiral
Porter, is spending the summer with
her son-in-law, Lieutenant 7. @. Logan,
US. N, at Canonicut.
Francis Parkman, the historian, will
spend a portion Of the summer with his,
daughter, Mrs. Jefferson Coolidge, at
Little Harbor, Portsmouth, n. II.
Lord Wolseley entered the British
army thirty-fve years ago at the pay OF
81 % n day, and out of that he was COM
PEELED to pay for his mess and uniform.
Judge Gresham objects to wearing the
Judicial gown. He does not think
that the garment adds dignity, but in
his own case it doesn't, for he is oneof
the finest looking men on the bench.
Mrs. Joel Chandler Harris, who is
described as a bright-eyed brunette,
says her accomplishments have dwin-
died to two-"making butter and get
ting the children to bed by So'clock."
Miss Fisher, of North Carolina, the
lady who once wrote many novels un-
der the name Of christian Reid" Is
now Mrs. Tiernan, and publishes no
more. She is tho daughter Of the Col
onel Fisher who gave its name to Fort
Fisher.
Rev. A. W. Mann, the pioneer deaf
mute preacher, writes: "rhe ratio OF
deaf mutes to the hearing is as ! to 1,
GOO, SO there are 10000 in the United
States and about 1000, 900 in the entire
world. In the United States may now
be counted eighty schools specially
adapted to their education. Nearly TO-
900 pupils are in attendance each
year."
General Armstrong, founder of the
Hampton School for Indians and Ne
groes, is the son of a missionary and
was born in the Sandwich Islands, where
his father was stationed. He is to visit
his birthplace this summer. When he
began his work among the negroes in
the South both himself and his wife
were absolutely ostracized by the
whites.
Gladstone is comparatively poor
man, and the occasional literary work
he does for magazines and periodicals is
not the result OF any desire to add to
his established fame as writer. He
takes matter of fact view Of such pro-
auctions, reckoning them simply as
valuable hely to the liquidation OF his
heavy household expenses. For every
article he writes he receives $1,000.
A young woman in Paris claims TO be
the daughter Of ex-Empress Eugene,
and saws that portions Of her body are
adorned with the imperial crown and q
variety OF other emblems When in
formed Of the woman's claims, the ex-
Empress said: "There are at least thir-
ty women in France laboring under a
hallucination, who claim me as their
mother. In some families the arm or
leg Of child was tattooed after birth
with the imperial eagle. It must be so
with the lady TO whom you allude."
Emperor William was passing an hour
or so with the Fourth Guards and
It was the day that the officers
usually set apart for athletic practice.
The Emperor would not allow the pro-
gramme to be altered, and, when the
Colonel proposed foot race among the
young officers, His Majesty loosened the
lowered buttons Of his generals uni
form and said he would run pace or
two with them. "Now,n he exclaimed
To tile Rstonished lieutenants, chow
many Of You can distance your kaiser?n
His Majesty ran like . deer, and only
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