Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-11
PERSONAL.

MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARTORIs IS expected
to visit Washington during the winter.
THE New Orleans Picayvne says: THE
Mayor Of Savannah has asked for reduction
of his salary. He would be lnterdlcted ana
locked up if he lived here"
A LONDON JOURNAL asserts the truth of the
story that lady of wealth, well known IN
New York, sent for Italian artists to paint
pictures to match her carpets.
MRS. PHILIP DANDBIDGE, a daughter of
General Zachary Taylor and sister of Mrs.
jefferson Davis, has been visiting the widow
of General Barnes in Washington.
DIR. ALFRED EDMUND BREHM, a zoologist Of
wide celebrity and at present director of the
Berlin Aquarium, is expected in Philadelphia
this week, where he will deliver series OF
lectures.
WHEN Miss Clara Barton accepted the
Office of superintendent of Massachusetts
charitable institution, she asked to be her
own bOndsman. Governor Butler accepted
her in the sum of $4,000.
MATTHEW ARNOLD has been Endorsed by
the President of the Irish Republic, AleXan-
der Sullivan, of Chicago. This VIII cOmpen-
safe the English philosopher for all the harsh
things said Of him by the Boston editors.
JAMES w. DUKES, OF Portland, Oregon, an
Old acquaintance of DR.. Ham. Griffin, IS the
Young gentleman who has been showing Mary
Anderson attention in London. The doctor,
who is a confirmed wag, thought it would be
funny to start that story about Mary and the
Duke OF Portland. but the New Ork Herqtd
has sent him bill for Yl3O for the 5O0-llne
reading notice of the Duke of p. which it was
msled into printing, and the laugh is on the
doctor.--Net0 York World.
COUNT VAsILI, who has resumed his letters
in the NOUGeIIe ReUUe, describes Count M0ltke
as old, dry, and tacturn, and rather green"
at the age OF four score. lie Is recIuse,
living enclosed in his egOtism, and impatient
of being in any way disturbed in his tran
quillity; cold, impasslve man, incapable Of
doing good to any one, having never in the
course of his long life either obliged any one
or been under an obligation to anybody.
CONGRESSMAN KEIFER is thus portrayed by
Washington correspondent: "He Is fat
gross looking man. with a great blonde face
ornamented with irOn-gray whiskers, brave
blue eyes and high, broad forehead. AIR.
keifer can make good speech, and he has a
good presence. His manners are, however,
too gruG for parliamentary leader, and be-
fore this Congress Is over | prophesy that he
will be distanced by others and less widely
known men Of the delegation"
VICTOR HUGOs curious telegram to the
| Queen in the case of O'Donnell was, like all
such communications, opened by her private
secretary, sir II. POnsOnby, and submitted in
| due course to Her Majesty, who is said to have
| been somewhat annoyed, and very naturally
| so, at the French poets eccentric presump-
ton. 1t was felt, however, that, in-adyised
| as the telegram was il was well meant, and it
was decided to simply acknowledge its re-
| celpt in formal way, and In no way afford
/ Nj. Hugo preteXt for troubling Her Majesty
with a reply.
| BEN BUTLER is not high liver He can do
! justice to a full-cOurse dinner, or he can con-
! tent himself with plate of soup. When he
! is down in his Pemberton square office he
often dimes at a 25-cent-dinner restaurant,
| and have seen him make his midday lunch
! of ham sandwich and a bottle of ginger ale.
| He never has known what indigestion was.
| A Republican statesman once said: 1.-THE
! devil take the ogre; he can dine on bone,
| sleep with his head on his hand, and deliver
| four speeches a day." SO he can When he
eats he is very likely to be silent. He sits
! down TO a square meal like Grant before
! Nicksburg, grim and reticent.