The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-10
PERSONAL.

NATHAN APPLETON, of Boston, wants the gov
| eminent to present France with twenty thou
! sanddollar statue of George Washington.
ADAM FoREPAUGH is about to erect an I'M
mense circus building in Philadelphia which will
| seat 10000 people 1t will be after the model of
| the Paris Hippodrome and will cost S150,OOO
BARON HIRscH DE GERENrH, who has been
| raised to the Austrian House of Peers by the
| Emperor Francis Joseph, is the first Hebrew to
| receive such an honor 1t cost him $50 900 900
| in charity.
SIMON CAMERON, at the age of 90 wears. is
| frisIing about in Florida in company with the
| Duke of Newcastle, and almost daily whipping
| the sunny streams for the flnny beauties with
! remarkable success.
PRINCE FERDINAND is credited with having
| given away nearly $4,000 in presents during
| his recent tour through Bulgaria; a mere trihe
| in comparison with what Russia is pouring
| into the country to promote treason and re-
| bell.on.
| BANCROFT, the historian, is a most lovable
man. His heart is just as young as 1t was when
he was 20, and he is keenly appreciative of the
feelings of others, He is gradually failing it is
said and has been obliged to give up his favorite
pastime of horseback riding.
In order to give herself more freedom Of
movement, Rosa Bonheur wears natty cut
away coat and a pair of trousers while studying
her subjects. She makes a very neat Hooking
young man, but her sex is betrayed by her
dainty boots and her unmasculine walk.
REV. j. D. HAMMOND, of the First Methodist
church of st. Louis, is regarded as a leading
candidate for the CHARACTERISTIC of the Uni
versity Of Georgia. He is brother of ex-Re-
preventative Hammond, of Georgia, who has
also been named in connection with the place
Says the Boston Globe: Boston will again
have the honor of sending the most beautiful
married woman to Newport this season in the
person of Mrs Gordon Mckay. Judges of beauty
declare that no married woman has been in
Newport for ten years who can compare with
Mrs Mckay"
Mrs MARY J. HOLMES believes in early mar
riageS, and disapproves of extraordinarily long
courtshps. She believes that "only sons do
not make as good men as boys who are sur
rounded by brothers and sisters only
daughters she thinks, are apt to he pam
pered, and unfit for wifehood or motherhood
MARIA MITCHELL, the celebrated professor OF
astronomy at VaSsar College, is 20 years old
She is the diScoyerer of eight comets, the dis
covery of one OF which gained her gold medal
from the King of Denmark, and IL is said that
when she was girl of II she made an accurate
record of lunar eclipse. She has received the
degree of LII. D. from three different institu-
lions of learning.
he will be the next United States District Attor-
ney in Philadelphia, is popularity known as
Handsome George" He is graceful in his
movements and the pink of artistic poteness
in his address. With ex-Gov. Bum, of Idaho,
he frequently visits New York. and gives the
girls on Broadway real treat If the weather is
fine and the crossings well swept. These two,
bitterly opposed to each other in politics, are
bosom friends.
WHEN Henry George was printer in Phila.
delphia he had an intimate friend who was
noted in the craft for his wide range of informa-
ton, and the ability with which he grappled
with intricate questions of political economy
Everybody believed that he was destined to be.
come prominent in public affairs. After Mr.
George left Philadelphia his friend suddenly
took to drink, and on the day that Geor.e re-
ceived the extraordinary vote fer Mayor Of New
York his friend died in wretched poverty of de-
hrium tremenS
SENATOR JAMES G.. FAIR got his title of "Hon-
est JIM Fair on the Pacific coast in 1866 10
had been reported that big strike had been
made In the Ophir mine, and the refusal to adj
init either the public or experts TO the shaft
seemed to corroborate the rumor Fair assured
everybody that there was nothing in it. but the
stock went jumping hundred points at a lick
Fair and Irwin Davis, "A banker, were short of
the stock, and as a matter Of sef-protecton
they opened the mine to the public to show that
the truth had been told. The stock tumbed,
and 50 did the people. After that they called
Fair Honest JIM