Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-14
Personal.

Mr.. GLADSTONE occasionally reads the
lessons at morning service in Hawarden
parish church,
MICHAEL DAVITI is writing a parody
Of the Pilgrims Progress. intended to
illustrate an agitator's troubles.
PROF. SCHILLING took his own daughter
as model for the great statue Of Germania,
10 be unveiled next month by the Empe-
rOr.
IT'S SAID that Ex-Governor Blackburn,
of Kentucky, intends to found an institu-
ton in Louisville for the cure of inebriates
and opium eaters.
THE ARCHDUCHEss STEPHANIE,. wife
of the Archduke Rudolph, Prince 1mpe-
rial of Austria-Iiungary, has presented
her husband daughter.
MRS. STONEWALL JACKSON and her
daughter, Miss Julia jackson, arrived in
Boston Saturday, and Immediately joined
the party Of Governor Jarvis at the
Revere House.
WILLIAM SWINTON, the well known
journalist and writer of school text books,
is about to begin the publication Of S,rlR-
tOn's StOrg Teller, which is to be devoted
to short stories.
H. II. BANCROFT. the California histo-
rian. has gone to Mexico and Central
America for one year to study documents
and antiquities. He is accompanied by
three assistants.
Hon. A. A. SARGENT, American Min
lister to Germany, is in France, and, with
Mr.. Morton, our Minister at Paris, was
present on Thursday at the un|eiling Of
the monument to Lafayette at LaPuy.
WALTER w. sKEATs, the English lexi-
cOgrapher, says that popular etymology is
satisfied with explaining only halfa word.
'fROWl0cki he believes TO be pedantic
spelling, and that the proper form is ''Oar-
lock-"
AMONG the passengers arriving at New
York on Sunday in the steamship Nevada
was Mr.. l.. y. Fowler, the phrenolOgist,
one of the founders of the old house of
Fowler & Wells. He has been abroad,
travelling and lecturing, for nearly twenty
five years,
NEXT MONTH, on the twenty fifth annis
versary Of his assumption of the regency,
Kaiser Wilhelm will be presented by the
members of his military court with a
magnificent bronze shield, ornamented
with relief portraits of all the Princes and
Generals VINO took part In the Franco
German war.
JOHN WANAMAKER has added one
more to his many benefactiOns to the
Young Mems Christian Association by
giving the Philadelphia Association $50
600 to pay of it's floating debt. The entire
amount of the denb-92OO, OO0-@as made
up by other subscribers.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, the eldest Of
four distinguished brothers, will soon
celebrate his eightieth birthday. He is
said to be as vigorous as a man of sixty,
and to take great pleasure in acting as
counsel for young and active lawyers.
thus showing that he has not lost any OF
his youthful enthusiasm tor his profession.
..NO ONE at Windsor, y says the London
Truth, '1can understand why Mr.. Dever-
euX has been made a Knight. He is
hatter-is a Conservative, and was on
intimate terms with the late Mr.. john
Brown. 1t IL not clear whether the
KnighthOOd has been conferred upon him
on account of his hats, of his politics, or
of his intimacy with the departed one"
DIR. Z. A. TUCKER, of Sydney, N, s. W,
now i'm London, is preparing o work OH
lppatc asYlpms. he has Visited every
asylum in the United States, Canada,
Russia, Poland, Norway and Sweden,
Denmark, North Germany, Holland and
Belgium. He is now to go through France,
Italy, Austria and Spain. This tour
through the bedlams of the world must
be an extraordinary series of horrors.