Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-08
PERSONAL.

Gov. CLEVELAND intends to leave Albany
| next Monday to take a two weeks vacation
in the AdrOndacks.
QUEEN VICTORIA and the royal family keep
their accounts with the firm of Coutts, as
| ROYALTY has done since the days of Queen
Anne.
QUEEN KALIZA, the black African
potentate of Italy's new colony of Aesab, now
| liOnizing at Turin, though only sweet sixteen.
| Is the mother of two young prune-cOlOred
| princes, respectively and years OF age.
THE late Prof. A. S. Packard, of Bowdoin
| College, was the father of Prof. Packard, of
| Princeton; Prof. Packard, of ale; Prof.
| Packard, of Brown, and eX-PrOf. Packard, of
| BowdOin. His eldest son is a physician in
Bath, Me.
PROF. RICHARD T. GREENER, who is con-
sidefably DrOwner than he is greener, since he
| is a distinguished colOred graduate of Har-
ward College. threatens to write what he calls
a novel based upon race distinctions, in which
| there is nothing novel whatever.
SENATOR BECK at home is the pride Of
| Lexington. He is half a head taller than
most Of his blue grass friends, and can stay in
| the Senate as long as he wants to. He went
TO Kentucky poor Scotch boy, worked on a
| farm, taught school and studied law.
THE oldest Democrat IN the country is Capt.
lothian johnson, of South Durham. Me-, born
| Sept. 20, 1884, who voted for jefferson and
| every subsequent Democratic candidate and
| who hopes to live long enough to vote for
| sary.
THOMAS JEFFRRsON's tomb, on which the
| United states Government recently spent
| $4,000, suffers again at the hands of relic
| hunters. The breaking of the lock and the
| defacing of the railing OF the Enclosure, as
well as the chipping of the tomb, are men
| toned in a Charlottesville paper.
THE Philadelphia Times reminds the organ
lists who try to elect Blaine by calling Grover
Cleveland ''Stephen" that seen. Grant was
III
that given him in baptism. His true name is
Hiram Ulysses Grant, and he was elected as
Ulysses simpson Grant. In like manner Jere-
miah Goliath was elected ''Nice President as
Henry WILSON,"
Mr.. ARTHUR is worth about S25oOOO. so that
he is perfectly independent. This fortune
has come to him in legitimate way, and he
never speculates. Since his failure to be
nominated he has has been rather depressed
and appears to care less for the duties of his
Office than at any time before. AS fact, he
does not look forward with pleasure to be-
coming once more amere lawyer in New York
with a comfortable income.
ONE dav at breakfast the Emperor Napo-
leon. having eaten the wing of a chicken Ia
Tdrtdre, turned towards De Cussy, his cook,
saving: ''The deucel l have always hitherto
found chicken meat fiat and insipid; this is
excellent" ''Sir. IL your Majesty would per-
nit | would desire to have the honor of serv-
ing a fowl every day in different fashion"
'sWhat! you are then master of 800 different
ways OF dressing t0Wl!' " 1es, SIRE"
THE Vienna Municipality have passed
measure of paramount interest to the whole
musical world. The remains of Beethoven
and Schubert are to be transferred from the
burial ground of Waehring, one of the sub
urbs Of Vienna, to the Central FriedhOt,
large new cemetery just outside the town,
where ground has been specially reserved for
the interment of great men. 1t has long been
a source of amazement to those who have Wis
tied the graves at Waehring that such meagre
sepulchres mark the last resting place of such
men.
on July q, 1909. died Daniel Lambert at the
early age of 80. What his actual weight was
at the time of his death Is not exactly known;
but three years before that melancholy event,
when he exhibited himself at his house, SO
Piccadilly, he weighed, according to one of
his exhibition bills, l.222 pounds, London
weight. The coffin enclosing his remains.
which was with some difficulty deposited in
than Il2 superficial feet of elm. was feet
inches long. 4 feet inches wide, and feet
inches deep.
president ZALDIvAR of the Republic Of
Salvador is an owner OF an assortment OF
mines, out Of which are taken valuable pro-
ducts ranging from diamonds to coal, and the
stories OF his wealth are so enormous by the
time they have come all the way from his
country to ours that they are too incredible
for publication. Points observed at Long
Branch are that he lives in one of the cottages
at the West End. with retlnue Of servants;
that his horses and carriages, though hired
for the sojOurn of a few weeks, are exceed
ingly handsome; that in person he is stout,
sold man of As, speaking no language except
Spanish: and that. by means of an interpreter,
he gives assurances more profound and senti-
mental of his delight with the United states
than the ablest foreign actress ever achieved
on the eve of her return for second profess
sional tour.