The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-22
Personal.

Mrs. HICKs-LoRD says she shall devote her
unexpected legacy of 100000 to charity.
MRS MAcKAY will be in Newport next sum.
mer and intends to entertain or an elaborate
scale
THE Grand Duke of Baden wishes to take an
American tour, but his Ministers oppose the
project.
the question: WAS st. Paul dupeg" And a
Boston paper allowed him to appear in type as
asking: Was ST. Paul dude?"
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTORS have created de
mand for Josef Hofmann's signature. Per
haps Mayor Hewitt will see to it that Hofmann
writes his name only four times week.
Ex-JuDGE HENRY B. ToMPKINs, of Atlanta
says the New York Tribune, is strikingly like
Gov. Foraker of Ohio in appearance, and has
often been mistaken for him in New York
Ex-Gov FOSTER, of Ohio, has just sold for
S3l 900 his store at Fostora, his connection with
which establishment gained for him in his
Gubernatorial canvass the soubriquet of calico
Charley"
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, the banker-poet
receives nearly 100 letters a week from people
who seek his advice about taking up poetry as
a profession. He generally urges them to be-
come bankers.
THE Rose She Wore in Winter" is the title of
a poem recently written by Louise Chandler
Moulton. The man who paid for the rose won
ders how Mrs Moulton could have found any
pOttAS III suSh u ouOJCNO'
KING ALBERT of Saxony, has written to this
country for volumes on the American war by
living authors. His majesty is an authority on
European military matters having greatly
distinguished himself in the Franco-Prussian
war.
IT is UNDERSTOOD that Joseph Chamberlain is
TO be offered the Grand Cross of the Order of
the Bath for his services in connection with the
Fisheries Commission. AS he had cold water
thrown over him constantly in this country the
Bath in his case should be a cold douche.
WILKIE COLLINS was asked the other day
how he came by Count Fosco, the only fat vii
liam in fiction. He was an agglomeratiou -
replied the novelist, and | made him fat be-
cause a lady once made the remark to me at a
dinner party that no novelist could make really
lifelike fat villain"
EX-SENATOR FAIR recently offered $4,000 for
San Francisco theater for one evening in order
that he might have an exclusive theater party
Mr. Fair once gave a rosebud party to twenty
young ladies of Washington at a cost of 81 900
The next morning he quarreled with a hack
man who charged him soc. for ride to the
capitol.
BILL NYE was announced to lecture at Quin-
cy, ILL.,, few nights ago. AS his train was late,
however, he did not reach that place until 10
O'Clock in the evening and was obliged TO defer
his discourse until the succeeding afternoon. In
spite OF all this, he was greeted by the largest
audience which has ever welcomed any lecturer
in that city, excepting only Henry Ward
Beecher
PRINcE BISMARCK is still hard worker, and is
becoming a rich man. The salaries from his
offices are by no means extravagant, but added
10 the revenues Of his estates and the profits OF
his saw mills and distilleries they bring his in.
come 10 between $1,000 and $4,000 a year.
And, as the Prince il VIGOROUSLY economical
large proportion Of this comfortable income Is
Annually saved.
EX PRESIDENT McCosH. Of Princeton College
Is now deyoting himself 10 literary work lie
Is az work on volume 10 be- entitled First or
Fundamental Principles " which be- thinks will
he the most enduring Of his achievements in
philosophy An effort IL being madp 10 have
him write book ~ personal memoirs. giving
anecdotes ~ his experiences in scotland Ireland
hla America, and pen pictures ~ the famous
people h. has kfDNn. "a u probable that tha
neat feg ysafr viii sfse much that IL entertain.
nv ard instructive from the pea 0f the ceie-
hraicd sgucator.