Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-12
PERSONAL.

BARON NORDENsKJoLDi is getting ready to go
| seek the South Pole.
GEN. WALLACE assures Mr.. Frelinghuysen
| by cable that the Porte has not asked for his
recall.
GIN. GORDON is said to be the only Chris
tan who is prayed for in the mosques at
Mecca.
AFTER this month Robert Browning will be
Or" Browning, by leave of Edinburgh Uni
versity.
DAVID DAVIS owns large roller skating
rink IN Bloomington III. The ex-senator IS
not much OF a skater himself.
IT will be painful surprise to some people,
but twenty years next door neighbOr to
John Sherman describes him as mean. stingv
and "clOse as the bark on a beech tree" 1t is
generally believed that he didn't bring out his
barrel for Garfield.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS will be assisted at
the Wendell Phillips memorial meeting in
Boston next week by Miss Belle Cushman
Eaton, who IS grardnieee Of the late
Charlotte Cushman, and who will read a
poem on the occasion.
DR.. p. c. JEwETT, the eminent expert on
diseases of the brain, of New Haven, is dan
gerOusly i'll at Providence, r. /. He is 6S
years old. or late his name has been much in
print in connection with the Hayden and
Malley murder trials.
EX-MAYOR KING, OF Philadelphia, pro-
poses to write book giving his observations
OF Lle way IN WHlcn I0lldQelpNld Is governed.
Although he has IN hand great deal Of ma
terial for the book, he declines to say what the
scope Of the work VIII be.
GEN. MEREDITH READ: 81 once asked
Charles Reade what he thought of the Ameri-
can system Of interviewing. He declared
himself strongly in its favor Just think
said he, what fine thing an interview with
Shakespeare would have beenW
THE late Louis c. HamersleY not only had
a skull as other persons have. but his skull
was ''long and strangely formed''-sO DR..
schuyler testified IN the VIII case now be-
fore Surrogate Rollins, of New YORK.
The purpose Of the point about the skull was
to show that Mr.. Hamersley was not capable
of making a will-thOugh even with an elOn-
gated head he was able to accumulate for
tune of $5,000,000.
MISS GENEvIEvE w ARD rivals the late Nine
Ida Pfeifer as a traveller. She was last heard
from at Colombo, Ceylon, where she had
among her audience Arab the Unblest She
had travelled IA, 1893 miles; had visited Bombay
JeyhOre, Delhi. A gra, Lucknow, Benares, and
Calcutta, in all of which places she played
Forget Me Not" remembered here at Wal
lacks; attended Lord Ripon's state ball in
the City of Palaces, and saw the Ilbert bill
passed.
GEMS. GRANT, Sheridan. Sherman, Logan
and Butler are all persistent smokers, but
there is curious difference in the manner in
which each handles a cigar. Gen. Grant, who
is, probably, the greatest smoker of all, goes
in for good solid enjoyment, smokes only the
very best to be had, and always gets his
moneys worth out of his cigar. Once lighted,
it never leaves his mouth until the last Whit
has been drawn from it. Sherman's habits,
however. are the very reverse. He doesn't
care much about the quality of his cigar and
never takes more than two or three whffs be-
fore he has laid it down to talk and then forgets
where he left it. Sheridan also loses much OF
the enjoyment in a cigar by his well known
inability to keep it lighted. and it is said he
generally burns half dozen matches on one
cigar. Ben Butler is constant smoker, bat
always Of an unlighted cigar, and generally
with the wrong end in his mouth. He seldom
or never lights 1t. The poorest smoker Of all
is Gen. Logan, who will sometimes 90 for
weeks without touching cigar, but will make
up by consuming bis tobacco in a pipe. Then,
when the notion seIzes him, he will return to
his cigars for time, and pipes will be at a
discount in the Logan mansion.