Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-26

A PORTRAIT Of Beethoven. painted in oils in
1915 by Mailer, Of Vienna, has been discover
ed at Freiburg.
THE Breckenridge family has twice as
many representatives in the National House
as Deleware--tWo members.
G. w. DUFF AssBETsN SMITH. the English
pc itlcian, lives in little world OF his own
A park surrounded by wall eight miles long
~ " f"et h'0h, Day and night the gates are
closely barred.
THE death of DR.. John Christopher Draper
Vlrginian by birth aud education, attracts
attention to the fact that a very large number
T New York's prominent physicians are of
Southern extraction Drs. Y. Adds Everett
Sayre, and +. Marion Sims all come from be-
low the Mason and Dixon line.
LORD TENHYsoN seems determ ned to main
tain to the end the neck-and-neck race which
he has been running for more than fifty years
of uubie life with MIR. Gladstone. "Hs life
and lab0rs," sald Mr.. Gladstone OF his friend
after their famous yachting tour last autumn,
shave correspondent IN time exactly with my
own"
A PENSION Of $500 year has been granted
to Prof. Huxley "in recognition of mis- emf
nent scientific services" He has acce pied It.
He retains, at the request of the Lords OF the
Committee OF Council on Education. the posi-
tions Of Dean and Honorary Professor Of Bio
logy in the Normal School of Science and
Royal School of Mines a. South Kensington
From all other public positions he has re-
tired
MISS CASE, OF Girton College. who took the
art - the ''GOddess Athtne," at the recent
production OF the "Eumendes." at Cam
bridge, Eng, Is described a. being very stat
uesque aud beautiful, with deep ricn, must
cal voice. For moment" says one Of the
Engliah papers, "the dark hair, so contrary to
tradition. staggered ones faith; but when she
spoke in clear tones fitting the calm majesty
% 90 mien. one felt she wac indeed the god
dess."
THoREAu. Hawthorne, and Emerson are
all buried In sleepy Hollow cemetery az Con-
cord. Emerson's son. the little waldo for
HON the "rhrenody' was written. lies in
son. aunt OF the philosopher. The Hawthorne
lot contains the bodies OF the novelist and
near him the two little grandchildren
GLADYS. daughter Of Julian Hawthorne, and
Frankln hawthorne, son OF George J.. and Of
Rose Hawthorne Lethrop. In the Thoreau
lot lie the father and the mother and the three
unmarried sons and daughter-Henry, Will
liam, an SOphia--all long past middle age,
dying n solitary death out OF solitary life
Miss DELLA Rance. known TO novel readers
| "a "Ouida," IN described by one who saw her
on a Florence drive for the first time Is APP
/ pearing very much above the usual stature
| OF women. Her fsce was marked by a nose
/ decidedly aquilnc. ana abundant yellow hair.
/ The hgure was graceful and llthe. But such
/ eyesi one moment they we're u a topaz
brown, and In the next second they were a
misty gray. The face would have beea a
| pleasant though very unusual one but for the
! corle. uucannt eyes. The lady IA Of spotless
| peraunal character. Her mother ~ English
/ her father was French spaniard, with good
/ blood bui bad morals, uida, devoies her
mother, a pleasant faced. white haired old
! lady. who always goes 90 sleep in tho warm,
/ spn sunshine when she drives out with her
inaaicFiul-l looking daughter"