Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-18
PERSONAL.

GEORGE ELoT's greatest novel, accord
ing to Turgenietf, was The Mill on the
Floss"
ANNA DICKINSON has the honor OF
having taken the first mule to the top OF
Pixies Peak.
GAIL HAMILTON is rusticatinS in
Maine. preparatory to her annual sWoop-
down on the national capital.
THE ONO woman. says the Philadel-
phia Times. may yet become as big per-
son in politics as the Ohio man.
.SENAToR SPANGLER'' in A Washing
ton Winter is said 10 be a faithful pOr-
trait Of ex-senator Stewart, of Indiana.
SECRETARY TELLER has received a
telegram from Mr.. Benjamin Butter
worth. of Ohio. accepting the position OF
Commissioner OF Patents.
THREE millionaire Congressman, it Is
stated, live in Boston; nevertheless John
/ l.. Sullivan is nearer to the heart OF the
/ Bostonian than any of them.
DIR. J. MARION SIMS writes to Judge
/ Mackey that Washington, with the i'm
I proyement Of the Potomac flats, will be
/ the healthiest city in America.
\ Resident OF Indianapolis has in his
1 possession a letter from Ralph Waldo
| Emerson written in 1879, and containing
| his acceptance of an invitation to become
pastor of the Second Unitarian Church of
/ Boston.
THERE is little doubt Of the President
I pardohing Sergeant Mason before long.
/ Petitions keep pouring in even at this late
I day, and the opinion is now expressed
[ that Executive clemency VIII not be long
/ i'm forthcoming.
/ GENERAL SHERMAN now adOrns him.
/ self with pair of huge Chinese specta-
oil Elnit
/ the eyes being completely shaded by
/ branches from the outer edge of the glass.
/ He purchased them durlag his Western
/ tour.
JULES FERRY. the French Premier
/ started out in lite as a lawyer, but it is
/ evident that he didn't receive his legal
/ education in Philadelphia, else he would
/ have ere this made Alfonso believe that
/ the Partisan mob was applauding instead
/ of kissing him.
/ EX-CoNGREssMAN MCLANE. now the
/ Democratic nominee for Governor Of
! MARYLAND, arrays himself in the prOdis-
/ ious neck apparel and waistcOats which
prevailed half a century ago. He Is now
/ 20 years old. was i'm Congress III 1871.
/ and afterward spent three years as Min
/ ter to China, since which time his home
/ is fun of Chinese furniture and orna-
/ ments.
3 IN WRITING OF tue MhlmS OF great men
I a German writer notes that Schiller in
/ spired his muse by the smell Of rotten
/ apples, which he keptIn his desk; Handel
/ loved to think beneath a weeping willow:
/ Haydn wanted champagne by his side
/ when writing; Goethe surrounded HIM
| self with works of art, and Latontaine
often wept over his own rOmauces. Beer
/ is good enough for Eli Perkins when in
| the thrOes Of fabulous composition.
The King of Siam is most eXtraordi-
\ nary looking man. Karl /. is apparently
! about 20 years Of age, and the most re-
markable fact concerning him is the in
ordinate length of his nails, each of which
/ measures about half a yard. This de-
| formity is considered by the Siamese as
/ an attribute of sovereignty, and, of course,
reduces the monarch to a state OF abso-
/ lutte heIplessness. He can do nothing for
/ himself and is obliged to have recourse in
/ every instance to his aid-de-camp.
] THE following is Oscar Wilde's account
:. of the reason he had his hair cut, ''lor the
\ first time i'm his life:" Being in the gal
I Iery at the Louvre. he saw bust OF a
Young Roman Emperor. 1t was very
/ beautiful indeed. The young Emperor
I had his hair cut short. Oscar wished to
I be like him, SO he took hair dresser with
| him to the Louvre and showed him the
| bust. and the ''artist" in hair cut the
/ long-admired locks of the artist in
/ dress. in imitation OF those of the youth
/ ful Emperor.