The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-18
PERSONAL.

KING HUMBERT of Italy will visit the Italian
exhibition at London in June in company with
Menotti and Ricciotti, the sons of Garlbald
Rev. DR.. CHARLES HALL, chairman of the
committee in charge Of the Beecher statue
fund, reports that over So, 900 is already sub
scribed of the $500 required to erect the
statue.
PERE HyAcINTHE said lately that if the Church
of Rome would give up infallibility allow priests
to marry and render confession voluntary it
would rally to its side ali the dissenters and all
the lukewarm
MINISTER PHELPS has accomplished great
work at the Court of St James. He has sue
ceeded in having knee breeches abolished at
Court receptions so far as the American lega-
ton is concerned.
URI Coy, of Elk City, Kan, in speaking of
Senator Ingalls, says his first recollection of
MIN is in territorial days The Senator had
walked out from Atchison eighteen miles to
prosecute case in a Justices court for So fee.
THE Queen of Sweden is making her first visit
to London accompanied by Prince Oscar and
his tlancee, Miss Munck. The Queen is in
wretched health and is travelling incog, but is
the recipient of many attentions from Queen
Victoria.
WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSTON, son of the Gen
Johnston who died at Shiloh, is President of
Tulare Cali University, and Shakespearean
expert. He has not single hair on his head OF
face Even his eyebrows and eyelashes have
disappeared.
DEACON WHITE, of Brooklyn, w. L. Scott. of
Pennsylvania, and John B. FELTON,, of California
are said to be the three richest men in the
House of Representatives. Perry Belmont, of
New York, also poses as rich man, but his
wealth yet stands in the name of his father,
August Belmont.
LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN, the latest English
nobleman to figure in police court scandal
was described the other day by British
General, who said THE first time / saw De
Walden in the Crimean War. He was
drunk, sitting on a log, and drinking raw brandy
He has been drunk ever since, and is drunk now
What he drinks heaven only knows"
Col HNBERT S. GREENLEAF a Federal officer
in the civil war, now of Rochester n. Y. has
sent to Senator Vance, of North Carolina a fine
Jersey bull calf. Col Greenleaf says in his let
ter to the Senator: please accept the bull calf
sent you yesterday as a slight token of my re-
gard for a certain 'Rehel Brigadier,' the worst
of the lot" Thus is Vance in receipt of two
bulls-one in the letter.
LAST TUESDAY was the SD birthday of David
Dudley Field, and it was not forgotten by his
fathers other sons, who gathered in Washing
ton. The longevity and intellectual emineuce Of
the four Field brothers recall the record of their
father. who was a clergyman and author ana
was born during the revolutionary war ndlived
to be SO years old The eldest of his sons has
just entered upon his slth year the second of
them is -, the third will be 70 next year ard
the youngest is &C. The father of The Field
brothers lived to see his eldest son pass two
years beyond the seXagenaran line.
"OLIVER OPrIC" is a figure worthy OF notice
He is little man with full gray beard pleas
ant face and twinkling hazel eyes In CONVEX
sation the genial and kindly spirit shines out of
his face. He wore a small, tightly-fitting skull
cap which made him look like Turk. He lives
in Boston and probably has written more stories
for boys and girls than any writer of this or any
other age He has produced il5 volumes Only
seven Of them were for adults, He began writ
ing some time in 1854, when he was "a years Of
age, and he has kept at 1t necessarily ever since
His first story IN book form brought him Ss0 20
He had previously received 50 for a short story
In Boston paper. One OF tine thin1s 20 he aA-
mtred IN all his stories is their evident moral
tone. His bad boys are never made into heroes
aud the good boys always come out ION top "
He has yacht at Dorchester, and spends a
great deal Of his time on The water, which &c
counts for the accuracy Of his descriptions OF
boating ile has been abroad several times
that he might properly describe the lands where
ne wanted his heroes and heroines 20 travel lie
writes his copy with typewriter. These are
some of the points about himself that h. mod
rntly gave iu answer % inquiries. ] had cur1.
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ranged hls work, lie keeps book In which be-
MAYS ont beforehand the characters of his
story with a sketch " the part each one Il 10
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