Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-21
PERSONAL.

MRS. MAXI MAIES lCODNE nus IL
moved permanently from Newark to New
/ York.
ROBERT BROWNING is good story
| teller, great diner-out, and he dresses
with cOnsummate taste.
HERBERT SPENCER has been asked to
stand for Parliament in the county Mayo
as a recognition of the Premier's service
to Ireland.
! RIsTORI is arranging in England for a
| series of Shakespearean readings in Eng
! fish y, and threatens to intiict them upon
| this country.
| BISHOP WILLIAMS, of Connecticut, is
| reported as saying that the Pilgrim
Fathers first fell upon their knees and
! then upon their aborigines.
HOwELLs did not write the ''Bread-
winners" in the Century. Il wish | had
written it, was his speech to some one
who supposed him to be capable of 1t.
A BOsTON journal wonders whether,
/ after all. Bret Harte is not the greatest
| living American writer OF fiction. AS this
wonder is from Boston. Mr.. Harte may be
satisfied.
VI. FERRY says that the Royalist party
/ in France consists of about 5000 mobiles,
| LOCO would-be mobiles, 80 bishops, ard a
| few thousand priests, monks, snobs and
/ sycOphants.
| lola. the Efencn writer, uTllkS DIdnuN
and water while at work. President Ar
thur drinks good rye whisky during the
! day and never less than a bottle of cham
| payne at dinner.
NJ. PIVION, favoring cremation, says
| that those pOisOns which can be detected
! in a decaying body can. with few eXcep-
( tiOns, be found IN the ashes which remain
in the crematory.
JUDGE HOADLY passes his time at the
| st. George Hotel, Philadelphia, chiefly in
| playing chess with his wife. The opposi-
| ton knight is called Foraker by the Judge,
! and it is observed that he captures him
! every time.
| THE first of the many tokens received
/ by Mrs. sStOnewalF' Jackson and her
| daughter during their stay in Boston was
/ a superb basket of roses, ''with the COM
/ plments of a few members of the Grand
| Army of the Republic"
/ THE late Dr. MOffat, the venerable mis-
| siOnary, became so used to ''rOughing it,
| in the wilds of Africa that when he re-
| turned to England it is said that he could
not sleep comfortably on a soft pillow, but
prefeRred a wooden foot-stool.
/ AN official high up in the railway world
! wrote TO Charles Wyndham for his
| autograph. The comedian sent back
| this epigraph: Railways in their way
| are autocrats. They teach every man to
/ know his own station and to stop there"
FEW English girls at the watering
! places, says London Truth, appear to
! know how to swim. That journal as
cribes the fact to the prejudice which de-
! crees that no lady shall battle with any
man, even her own father. brother or hus-
band.
SENATOR JOHN f. MILLER, of Califor-
MIA. is prominent before the country as
| Republican candidate for the nomination
for Vice President. He is certainly a
popular and strong man. AS he has the
Alaska Seal Company behind him he
would probably make the fur fly.
HENRY f. GILLIG, in ''his effort to
make London and all Europe pleasant for
American tourists" vide the Paris ia
/ sette, recently gave a dinner in honor of
| eX-Secretary Window. at which the guest
Of the evening ''was complimented on his
| prospects for being a candidate for the
| next Presidential term"
/ COLONEL NORAIILE, the student of
4 Spanish literature, who has Just returned
to this country from Spain, brings with
him a curiOus'MOOrish scimitar which he
! purchased from an old market gardener
lust outside Grenada. 1t is studded with
! rare stones, and tradition asserts that it
was once carried by one of BOabdiPs AL
morivide officers in the last struggle
against Ferdinand and Isabella, though
they do say that some very fine antique
weapons of this character are now manu-
featured at Birmingham, England.
Mr.. HALLIwELL-RHILLIPP' letter to
the Mayor of StratfOrd-On-Avon, on the
| proposed examination of Shakspeare's
remains, has given rise to much specula-
ton and discussion in that town. The
present slab over the grave, he says, was
put there about fifty years ago, and it is
probable that the original tombstone lies
beneath it. But an aged resident contra
diets this. He was parish clerk from
1929 until very recently, and his father
and grandfather held the place before
/ him, so that his family's connection with
the church is more than hundred years
old. During ali that time he declares, no
new stone has been laid, and he believes
the present slab to be the original one.
Another resident of StratfOrd has a plas-
ter cast of the inscription ON the stone
taken sixty years ago.