Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09
PERSONAL.

CARL SCHURz expects to deliver fifty lee
| lures in New England next season.
WILLIAM H. vANDERBILT's art gallery con-
! tains l76 oil paintings, IL of which are by
| French artists.
MISS WIxoM's stage name, Miss Nevada,
| after her native State, was suggested by Con-
| gresham KassOn.
GUsTAvE RICHTER, the deceased German
| painter, during the latter years of his life
obtained $4,000 for each work he produced.
| Mr.. JOSEPH MEDILL. editor Of the Chicago
Tribune, is now paying his first visit to
| Washington since Gen. Grant left the White
| House.
| CHARLES READE's health was not improved
! any by his Continental tour, and he is now
resting IN London. Some people say that he
is dying.
IT is intended by the Primrose League of
| London to hold a banquet on Primrose day
in memory of Lord BeacOnsfeld All knights
and their friends will be able to obtain
tickets.
PREMIER GLADSTONE overtaxed his physical
powers during his speech In the Commons on
Thursday night last, and when he had finished
his face was CHASTITY pale and he staggered
from the house like worn out actor.
REV. DIR. CHARLES vEDDER, of the Hugue-
not Church in Charleston, S. c., will deliver
the leading address at the Huguenot ami
versary celebration In New York on the oath
of this month. The 18th instant is the two
nunuleO anu eighty anniversary OIL the
PRONUNCIATION of the Edict of Nantes. DR..
Vedder is the pastor of the only church in the
world that uses the Huguenot liturgy.
LEssEPs is a devoted horseman, and may be
seen daily galloping through the Bots de BOu-
lOgne, with his eight children by his second
marriage, boys and girls, mounted on ponies,
in nautical costumes, their hair streaming on
the wind, their large collars turned over their
shoulders, and their caps hanging over their
backs-a little tribe, with their dark hair and
compilations, round their white haired chief.
WILLIAM WASHINGTON figures in the En-
cyclOpedical Dictionary of the Spanish Lam
guage," recently published in Madrid, as
''the founder of the Republic of the United
States and the first President" Pennsyl-
vania, as the same volume declares, ''has n
population of one and a half millions, the
greater portion being German. German is
the prevailing language of the State" The
book teaches further that Sin Philadelphia is
the United States bank building"
THE recent death of Mrs. Ottendorfer wife
of the editor of the New York Stats Zeitun0,
was great loss to the Germans of that city,
who benefited largely by her charity. Be
sides the money that she spent during her life
time. her will Dequeathed 100000 to build q
home in Astoria for aged women, $50, 900 for a
German teachers seminary in Milwaukee,
81 900 for a wing to the German Hospital in
New Y ork, and $4,000 for the German dis
pensary and free reading rooms now erecting
in that city.
IT has sometimes been brought against Bis
marck that he does not believe IN "resting on
Sunday" and that he is rarely seen at church
This, DIR. Busch, his biographer. says, is part
ly due to the great amount of work that
presses upon him. ''There is so many a must
IN my life that the ao0uId can rarely be con-
sidered" Bismarck writes to his sister, and to
the author he remarks that the day ought to
be six or seven hours longer for him. Another
reason for not going to church he gives in a
letter to a clerical friend: "With regard to
going to church, it is incorrect to say that
never enter church. | willingly admit that
l might go more frequently, but it is not so
much from want of time as for consideration
of my health that l do not CO. especially in
winter. To those who feel themselves called
to be my judges in this respect / will with
pleasure give further information about the
subject ."