Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-06
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stallment OF his manuscript TO London.
IT is the habit among Cubans, of all classes,
if any one comes in--be it their shoemaker or
their tailor-whie they are eating. or about
10 sil down TO meal, TO invite him TO share
the meal. But he, as 4 matter Of course, in
V2rlably refuses, as is expected.
A NEW biography of George Eliot BIZ Mrs.
John Chapman, the widow of the former edi-
tor Of the Westminster Review, is SAID to be
in progress. The writer was a close friend
OF the author of "ROmola" during her life,
and has been engaged on the work for several
years.
SIR WALTER SCOTS christmas in the
Olden Time" has been chosen as the text for
six and twenty illustrations by Z. H. Garrett,
Harry Fem. J. Steeple Davis, George A.
reel, Henry Sandman, Chlde Hassam and H.
p. Barnes, engraved under the supervision of
George I. Andrews for Cassell & Co.
MRS. SARAH a. KELLY, of Honesdale, well
known as the Bard of Shanty Hill" and pros
pective Bard OF the Nation" has gone TO
Washington to push her claim for the lau-
reateship. Mrs. Kelly has written some
things which she considers lncomparably
better than anything ever penned by Tenuy-
son.
A PARTI- COLoRED BABY is reported to have
been born recently at Aberdeen, Miss. Its
father Is very black negro; its mother a
light mulatto Half the chIld's body IS black.
the other half nearly white; the hair on one
side of its Ii ad is kinkY, on the other light
and straight, while one eye is black and the
other blue.
JOEL MUNsEN's Sons, of Albany. publish
ers of genealogies, have undertaken the com
pilation of large and valuable work entitled
american Ancestry" in which the direct
male lineage of every citizen of the United
States will be recorded who can trace his
descent from families settled in America pre-
ylouS to $500.
+. E. CHURCH once suggested to Calvert
NauX, the landscape artist that sit would be
feasible to improve the artistic effect of
Niagara Falls on the American side by open
ing up few channels which would allow the
water to flow here and there over the high
rock wall on Goat Island. " MIR. VauX thinks
of trying the experiment.
DIRECTOR JAUNER of the Wledener
Theatre Vienna, says the American Register,
has invited the young American violinist,
Miss Nettie Carpenter, to play in three con
certs to be given there next month, She is
previously to appear three times at the Lelp-
sic City Theatre. Her success in Dresden
has been phenomenal one.
COUSIN BENJAMIN FOLSOM, United States
Consul at Sheffield, is at the Gilsev House,
New York, getting ready to sail for England.
He is model in fashionable attire. He says
that he can't talk politics because he doesn't
know anything about them. and that as for
getting married he cannot think of it on the
salary and perqulSltes of his consulate.
DEWITT TALMAGE is quoted by the Pitts
burg Chronicle as saying: II prepare my SER
mons usually by walking the floor or on a
railway train. | can think better when in
motion than when stationary. / sometimes
jot down notes on train, though generally
carry them in my head When 1 go on on a
journey, by the time get back home I have
sermons blocked out for $50 years."
MISS ELLA RUSSELL, the young American
who sang with such success IN London last
season, has been selected as the original rep
resentative of Desdemona in the first per-
Torrance of NerdPs new opera, "Othello," in
London. Says a correspondent: Her great
beauty and fine dramatic powers, Joined to
her fresh andpovely voice, will make OF her an
altogether ideal Desdemona."
THE following notice in a Mortanta news
paper is not calculated to soothe the feelings
of the thief who stole Mr.. SIMPSONS bay
mare. ''The night of the l4th INST. dark bay
mare, fifteen hands high, small white star in
forehead, both hind feet white, was stolen
from the stable of Ira Sampson, the under
signed. ] Will give the mare and $50 In cash
for full and reliable particulars regarding the
funeral of the thief. That's the kind of a
man am"
THE private effects of the late Mr.. Joseph
Mas, the well known English vocalist, were
sold recently in London. An eight day
clock, which once belonged to Izaac Walton,
was knocked down for 6716 guineas. The
clock was contained in handsome inlaid
case OF antique workmanship, and was made
in 1911 by John Roberts, of Kuahop, for the
author of the ''Compleate Angler" in whose
family 1t remained for many years. In course
of time it became the property of an angling
society, from whom it was purchased by Mr..
Mas.
BISHOP LITTLEJoHN. of the diocese of Long
Island, sailed for Europe Tuesday on the
Adrlatic, to be gone for several months. The
state of mis- health is such that he feels the
need of a vacation, al hough it is not seriously
impaired. His wife. whose health dem ands
that she pass the winter In a warm climate,
will accompany him. They will go to London
and thence journey through Southern Europe.
In the absence Of the Bishop the Rev. DR., q.
X. Van DeWater, OF ST. Luke's, Brooklyn.
Will be the spiritual head of the diocese by
appointment Of the Bishop. Bishop Littlejohn
will return before Easter.
CAPT. S. L. PIERCE, of Linwood, Delaware
county, Pa, who died several days ago, was
engaged in the coastwise trade, and during
the war carried supplies for the army. Once
he was given package to deliver to Gen.
Grant in person. In the neighborhood OF
headqu arters he came to a man sitting on a
log. Capt. Pierce asked him if he could tell
him where he could find Gen. Grant The
person on the log replied "Suppose tell you
/ am Gen. Grant?5 Pierce saic: II would
tell you that you are q liar" and passed on.
On making further inquiries he was directed
back TO the man sitting on the log. The Gem
eral told him that no apologies were neces-
sary.
1T is now printed that when the disagree
ment arose between Mrs, Edwin Booth and
her husband her father, McVicker, the Chi
cago manager, sided with his daughter, and
her brother Horace with Mr.. Booth. This led
TO an estrangement between McVicker and
his son that absolutely separated them Not
long ago Mr.. McVicker met on thescars a
pretty little girl, whose winning ways pleased
him. He asked her name, and she gave it, and
the last name was McVicker. Whose child
ia this?" asked the old man of the nurse.
Horace McNcker's," was the answer
Without word the little girls grandfather
wrote ON his card, Horace. come TO me Mt
now the old man and Horace are inseparable.
Is is said that Mai. Ben: Perley Poore. the
Washington correspondent. delights in the
use OF the words Of that dreadful old man in
"Davld Copperfeld" VINO repeated over and
over, "Oh. my eyes and limbs! Oh, nv lungs
and liver Oh, goroo, goroow The other day
the playful Major saw a friend walking IN
front of him, so he stole up quietly behind,
damned the friends hat down over his eyes,
grabbed him by the throat and the hair, and
shouted IN his deepest tones: "Oh, my heart
on fire! Oh, my eyes and limbs! Oh, my
lungs and liyerI Oh, goroo, goroow BY this
time the victim managed to get away. and
turned face full of wrath and terror ON the
tlckled joker. IL was u face Mai. Poor had
never seen in his life, and the owner had
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