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

RHoDA HOWARD, of Owingsville, Ky, is ZIG
years of age. She has smoked tobacco for 100
years
Mrs. WHITNEY, wife of the Sanscrit scholar,
of New Haven, has established kindergarten
for the poor of that city, to be Introductory to
an industrial school.
JOHN w. GARRETT has presented to the
State of Maryland copy III oil Of the original
portrait of Lord Baltimore in the possession
of the Earl of Verulam.
Miss ELLEN TERRY may have had four hus-
bands, as has been asserted, but no one who
has seen the Boston F0itO'S latest picture Of
that actress would believe 1t.
THE Queen and Princess Beatrice, who are
now at Osborne, are to remain in the Isle Of
Wight till the middle of February, when they
will return to Windsor Castle.
IT is said in Washington that President Ar
thur is in great trouble because the umbrellas
and canes presented to him on Christmas do
not match his trousers and neckties.
THOMAS SABIN, of Belchertown, Mass, eel
ebrated his Tooth birthday last week. He new
er smoked nor drank liquor, and he voted the
Democratic ticket at the last election.
THE REV. DIR. GILBERT DE LA MATYR, eX-
Congressman, who recently became pastor OF
a church in Denver, Col, is in the hands of
the surgeons for the treatment Of serious af-
Fiction.
THE War Department has been informed
that Major Gen. Hancock, who Is now at Los
Angeles, Cal, has entirely recovered mis-
health. He will be rendered public recep-
ton to-day.
REV. JOSEPH COOK uses bigger words which
less people can understand than any other lee
turer in the country. At a recent lecture he
used dozen words which cannot be found in
any dictionary and the meaning of which Mr.
Cook alone knows
MR.. WATTERSoN, of Kentucky. is said to be
ambitious to go to the United States Senate,
but according to the Chicago Times he lacks
the melancholy gravity and profound dizziness
necessary to make him an ornament of that
distinguished body.
THE Duchess of Montrose, whose marriage
with Mr.. Crawford, a leading sporting man
of England. created such scandal at the
time, intends to proclaim her love for her sec
Ond husband, who lately died, by erecting IN
his memory a tomb of unprecedented gran
deur. Her ambition is, she says, to excel the
tribute of Artemesla, whose magnificent Sc
pulchre to her deceased husband, MausOlus,
gave the name to ambitious monumental ar
chitecture.
SENATOR THURMAN was once seen to rush
hurriedly into the Congressional library at
Washington and say, "SponOrd, tell me where
this quotation comes from The librarian
read the sentence, thought for moment, and
then sent the messenger for the work OF a
rather obscure author, i'll which he promptly
found the desired passage Mr.. Thurman
was delighted, and expressed his gratitude by
the remark, "When leave Congress, Spo1ord,
and make my money, shall bug YOU"
Mr.. S ABIN, the new Chairman of the Ma
tional Republican Committee, is a successful
maker of reapers, and has become a million
are IN few years by skillful seizure upon
the opportunities of money making in a new
State. 'SOme of our readers" says the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican,, ''remember
him when as young man, with his brooches
tucked in his boots, he used TO draw cord
wood into the southern towns Of Worcester
county for 81 a cord.
For sevan wears ALIENS Brain Food has