Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-04
PERSONAL.

PRINCE BISMARCK has large interests
in timber, and still larger in a distillery.
which turns out 10000 iitres Of eau de vie
monthly.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER viii,
after paying attention to Lord COleridge
in Washington, leave Washington until
November.
PARNELL has decided to decline the
many invitations he has received to visit
America, and will remain in England
during the next year.
EX-SENATOR TABOR is writing Thirty
DAYS in the Senate" The book Will be
known by a big diamond which is to be
stamped on the cover.
MISS MARY GOFF, young lady living
near ChambervilIe, Va, committed sui
eide Saturday. She stood before mirror
and cut her throat, severing the jugular
vein.
SIR GEORGE 5. MARES, who has had
some experience in the Arctics, says that
Greely's party will probably not suffer
much this winter. Of course not if they
are all dead.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is credited on the
slate of the West Island Club House,
Newport, with having caught a bass
weighing so pounds, the largest caught in
that vicinity Tor years.
ROBERT BROWNING is in excellent
health and spirits and has been spending
the summer at a secluded retreat in an
Alpine pass only TO be reached by mules.
He soon goes to Venice.
THE Springfield Republican says that
500 is at least ten times what Whittier's
lastpOem is worth, though that is what
he got for it. There must be poet some
where on the Republicans staff.
THE man named Clark, who has sue
ceeded to some of the duties OF the late
John Brown in Queen NictOria's service,
is a nephew of Brown. Nearly or quite
all the servants at BalmOral are either
Browns or Clarks.
REV. DIR. JOHN r. PAXTON, of New
York. on Sunday quoted in his sermon the
notable sentence in the ''Silver King"
''Ob. God, turn back Thy universe and
give me yesterday" 1t is not often that
a phrase from contemporary melodrama
creeps into the pulpit.
HER JOSEPH BERAZ. who has achieved
quite a reputation in Germany as a dis
coyerer of wells, has now applied his
method to metals, and claims to be able
to demonstrate infallibly the presence of
iron, silver, and gold in the bowels of the
earth. So sober journal as the Munich
formerly Augsburg AIlgemeine Zeltung
treats Herr Beraz's alleged discovery with
some respect.
QUEEN VICTORIA was highly indignant
at the publication of an unimportant let
ter from the late Prince Albert to a Ger
man friend in a Munich journal. Prince
Albert's private correspondence, it is I'M
derstOOd, is now in the Queens possess
sion. His correspondents were chiefly his
brother, Baron Stockmar, the late King
Leopold, of Belgium, and the Emperor
William, of Germany.
NEARLY all the Prime Ministers of Eng
land reached a mature age before they at
tanned to the honor. Mr.. Gladstone was
80 when he first held the position. Lord
Beaconsfield was IS, Lord PalmerstOn 20,
Lord Derby %, Sir Robert Peel 50. the
Duke of Wellington 56, and Earl Russo Il
50. In striking contrast with these Yete-
rams appears the youthful Pitt, who be-
came Prime Minister before he had COM
pleted his 25th year.
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS allows none of
his photographs to be sold, and it is even
said that there are none in existence.
There is a story that photographer once
obtained a negative, from which he had
printed several copies, and that Mr..
Brooks visited him and asked for what he
would sell the plate and the whole cOllec-
ton. The man told him $780, which the
preacher instantly paid and put the lot
out of existence in short order.
LORD COLERIDGE said at Chicago
E'The one person to whom / owe every
thing, and may perhaps pain and trouble
people over and over again by saying that
| do so. is the illustriOus person who is
now Prime Minister of England. He was
my friend from early youth, and all that
have in public owe to him. Ny profess
sional success, such as it was, did not
owe to him: but all Of public distinction,
such as it is. that has ever fallen to my
/ lot is entirely owing to the persevering
and the undue kindness of Mr.. Gladstone
for me-"