Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-15
Personal.

VICTOR HUGO is still considered the best
speaker in Paris. But he is the poorest
listener. He's as deaf as post.
SIR MOSES MONTEFIoRE has shaken off the
bronchitis which has recently troubled hlH'
but has not fully regained his strength.
Lucy p. HOOPER writes from Paris that
Minister MOrton's wife cannot SIT Tor her pof =
trait to BOnnat because she Is so tormented
by headaches.
Ell. UNDERWOOD, of Boston. already has
begun biography of Wendell Phillips and a
hundred more biographers are ready to begin
within week.
MRS. THOMAS HICKS LORD announces that
she will remain in Rome till Easter, and her
New y ork acquaintance are willing that she
should stay longer If she wants to.
w. STEINITz, once champion chess player OF
the world, having failed to conclude match
with ZukertOrt, has decided to settle down IN
Philadelphia and start chess magazine.
AFTER considerable social success and sew
eral receptions in Boston, Miss Susan 3. An
thony has gone to Washington to soften the
hearts of Congressman on the subject OF Wo-
man suffrage.
\ LONDON correspondent of the Cleveland
HerdId learns that Mgr. CapeIs father was a
coast-guardsman and that his mother stlll
keeps a fashionable boarding house at Hast
ings, a seaside resort. So Mgr. Capel Is not
aristOcratiC by descent; on the contrary, ne
became SO by his rise.
THERE are not so many ladies on the New
Ork press as formerly, Those having places
on the Office staff are Miss Middle Morgan, OF
the Times; Miss Katherine V. Ferguson, OF the
Morning journal; Miss Beatrice Blddle, OF the
World granddaughter of the Nicholas BID
die, who was Vice President Of pennsylvania
when Franklin was President, and was the
foremost figure in JacksOn's bank agitatOn)
Miss Mary Ferguson, of the queen, ana MISS
Helen Hutchinson and Mrs. Runkle, OF the
Tribune.
EARL GROsvENOR, the eldest son of the
Duke of Westminster, who has just died, was
chiefly remarkable for his great, and, for his
age, immense size; his habit, which probably
OccasiOned this size, of staying in bed until
In the afternoon. and his passion for engine
driving. He had been subject from One-and-
twenty years upward to epileptic attacks, but
when on the engine "Wild Irishman' was al
ways accompanied by the usual driver and
stoker, so that the public suffered no risk. Ills
young widow is one of the beautiful daugh-
tiers of Lord Scarborough, and their little boy,
vast estates, is a fine fellow, called IN the
family "Bend-Or," after his grandfathers
Derby winner.
EARL CAIRNS, who is not by any means
rich, and owes most of the wealth he possesses
to the gift of his brother n-law, Robert Nc
CalmOnt, recently deceased, can Ill afford the
100000 which he VIII certainly, by settle
mcnt or by verdict. be compelled to pay Tor
his sons indefensible conduct to Miss For
tescue. When poor and struggling himself IN
early life, he was Tilted by wealthy girl TO
whom he was engaged, and felt 1t bitterly
He is very unpopular in his native Belfast,
to whose adoption as Parliamentary pet
when young he chiefly owed his quick al
vancement. Since obtaining the full measure
of his ambition he has never visited the
foundation of his fortunes, but resides wholly
at BOurnemOuth and in Scotland.