Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-26
PERSONAL.

II Is suggested that Sergeant Bates
should ret on railroad track and defy u
train to run over the American flag.
THE Prince of Wales still refuses to
say whether Mary Anderson snubbed him
or not, and so the discussion is growing
to he one-sided.
SENATOR MALONE looks much older
than he did two years ago. He is getting
somewhat bald, and his hair and beard
have whitened.
ERNEST REMAIN shares with Sarah
Bernhardt and NJ. de Lesseps the most
general notoriety of all living Frenchmen
or French women.
+. Z. WHIPPLE, who twenty odd years
ago was the most popular essayist in
America, and who was known as whip
ple the Essayist," is seldom seen outside
his Boston house. He is GA years old.
HARVARD is about to raise monument
TO the memory of John Harvard, the
founder of the college. The model has
lust been completed by Daniel {. French,
the sculptor of the "Minute Man" of
Concord.
LORD COLERIDGE declares himself de-
lighted with Washington as Il city and
astonished that it possesses no manutac-
lures or commerce. 1t manufactures
laws and public opinion, which is enough
for Il small town.
VIsCoUNTEss COMBERMERE recently
entertained party of twelve at luncheon.
The table decorations consisted of white
Dresden china ornaments and tazZas,
filled with laminated grasses, and bou-
quets of white and scarlet geraniums.
Hon. ALEXANDER MITCHELL will
have the largest reception ever rendered a
private citizen of Wisconsin on his re-
turn to Milwaukee from Europe.
Besides his great personal worth, Mr..
Mitchell is the wealthiest man in the
Northwest.
Mr.. TROLLOPE'S autobiography, says
an English critic, is one of the most inter-
esting works that he has written. But
his views on successful novel writing are
sadly contradictory of his previous de-
lIverance, that the only requisites were
pen, INK and paper.
MRS. FRANCES HODGsON BURNETT
saws that the first word a baby utters is
''agOO." That very subject has recently
been discussed by many mothers, and
despite Mrs. Burnett's dictum, the de-
cisiOn is that the first word a New York
baby utters is ''gitlager."
CONGRESSMAN REAGAN, of Texas, says
that ex-senator Thurman, of Ohio, is the
greatest man in the Democratic party,
and that he ought to be nominated for
President. There are many men in the
Democratic party who would not object
to having another President from Ohio.
THE tastes of great men differ. For ex-
ample, while Editor Richard Smith
brought away from the grave and home of
Washington only memory of fried fish,
Lord Chief Justice COleridge was delight
ed to bring away as a precious souvenir
one of the rarest plants that are grown at
Mount Vernon.
ONCE in ever so many years a new edi-
ton of Tx MarvePs books appears, and
new Youngsters read the 'Reyeries' with
the same pleasure that the old youngsters
had. But, after all. the most delightful
book of the series is probably the least
read-"Wet Days at Edgewood." Mr..
Mitchell is now 81 years old
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, the London Acdd-
eng says, has perhaps a more powerful
writer of fictiOn-an imagination which,
if he only did it more justice, would yet
bring him immortal "types," not mere
monstrOsites, from the Vastly and yet I'M
exhausted deeps of the natural and moral
worlds.
.'TURGENEFF," said Ernest Renan over
the body of the Russian novelist, ''had
received that mysterious degree which
pre-eminently makes human vocatiOns
noble gift-he was essentially lmperS0nal.
His conscience was not that of an indi-
vidual more or less gifted by nature; it
was in a certain way the conscience of
the people. Before he was born he had
been living for thousands Of years; inf
mite trains OF dreams were concentrated
deep in his heart Never has man been
thus the incarnation of a whole race.
A world lived i'm him, and spoke
through his mouth; generations of
ancestors. lost without uttering
word in the sleep of centuries, were en-
dowed by him with life and language.
The silent genius of collective masses is
the source of everything grand. But the
multitude has no voice. 1t knows but to
feel and to stammer. 1t has need of an
interpreter, prophet who speaks for it.
Who will be this prophet? Who will tell
of its sufferings, denied by those whose
interest it is TO be blind to them; its
secret aspirations, which overthrow the
sanctimonious optimism of the satisfied!
A great man, if at the same time he has
heart and genius"