Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-31
PERSONAL.

ONE of the students at Harvard College is
said to have expended 81 900 in fitting up his
room in the dormltory.
A DESERTED damsel rushed into a ball room
| at Alyisos, Col, the other night and threw
pan Of molasses upon the shirt front of her
faithless lover.
THREE Baronets and Peer, Lord st. Leon
ards, grandson of the eminent Chancellor,
have recently helped to swell the list Of bank
rupts IN England.
OSCAR WILDE intends TO follow the example
Of his friend, Mrs. Langtry, and go upon the
stage as soon as he completes volume OF
poems he has in hand.
REV. DR.. STERN, a Jewish rabbi of Wilkes
barre, Pa. favors Sunday worship, and Is
combating the prejudices of his race against
that and other Christian customs.
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE exhibited to
his congregation last Sunday d black velvet
sermon case, embroidered with golden cross,
which he received as Christmas gift from
the Zunis.
ACCORDING to the Paris Temps woman
named Marie Girard, now living in the village
of Auberire-en ROyans, was born on March
IS. 1861, and is consequently in her l23d year.
She has been a widow for So years.
WHEN Beaconsfeld was young the Duke of
Rutland sneered at him. Disraeli had long
memory. Returning from Berlin in triumph,
after many years. somebody said he would be
made Duke. 81, a Duke!" he exclaimed,
with feigned resentment. make me Duke?
Why, Rutland's Duke"
A CLEVELAND WOMAN tried holding baby
as collateral security for board bill. She
took care of the child, so that its mother could
work in a store, when the mother failed to
pay the bill refused to give it up, and the
owner of the property had to seek courts OF
law and get a writ of habeas corpus.
ISAAC 5. SPRAGUE, the living skeleton, who
is 40 years old, and has been reduced by
atrophy to forty pounds weight has Just com CON-
death to the Harvard Medical College in the
interests of science. The body will be pre-
served in the museum after an effort has been
made to discover why he was so thin.
PHILLIPS ACADEMY, Exeter, \. H., claims
some distinguished men as graduates. The
following have been Governors of States:
David l.. Morrill,, Nathaniel b. Baker, Benja-
min r. Prescott and Charles III. Bell, of New
Hampshire: Edward Everett, Henry j. Gard
ner and Benjamin +. Butler OF Massachu-
sets: Charles Paine, of Vermont: Thomas W.
Dorr, of Rhode Island; John a. Dix, OF New
York, and Lewis Cass and Alpheus Fetch, of
Michigan.
A STORY is told of the German Crown
Prince which, whether true of him or not is
characteristic OF his race. On his way through
Halle he told the Burgomaster he might now
see why he could not be present at the Luther
festival held at Halle and EIsleben. "Prepa-
ration for this journey has taken up all my
time, for it is no trIfle to learn Spanish in a
fortnight" 1t certainly is not, and l suppose
nobody but German would have tried. To
Frenchman, certainly, no such idea would
have occurred.
THE sculptor Harnlsch, of Philadelphia, is
in Rome at work on the statue and monument
of John c. Calhoun for Charleston. The statue
is fifteen feet high, and has the right hand half
extended. The left foot is slightly advanced.
The chair of a Senator is behind him, bearing
a cloak. Statue and chair are to stand on
granite platform, semi-clrcular, with bronze
palmetto tress at even distances on its faces.
Finally, there are four tall steps of granite
underneath all, so that the monument will be
more than forty feet high.
AUGUsTE OFFESBACH, the only son of the
composer, died recently at Cannes. He early
manifested musical talent, but his father dis
suaded him from adopting the career OF a
musician, saying that the name OF Ohenbach
would prove a heavy burden to him unless he
had twice as much talent as his father. After
the death of the composer, Auguste made the
arrangements for the first performance of
Lies Contes d'H0ffman," and 'La Belle
Iurette" acquitting himself so well as to be
encouraged to devote himself thenceforth
entirely to music
HENRY OxENFORD recently died in London,
AGED 100 wears. He was the last survivor of
the official agents in Her Majesty's Customs
Long Room, custom house. There were about
sixty years ago twelve OF these gentlemen,
who were called the Twelve Apostles. The
Treasury being DESTROYS of abolishlng the an
cient privileges pertaining to the office of
agent. made an arrangement by which they
were offered large PENSIONS seats IN the Long