The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-29
Personal.

| The duke of Argyll, concerned over the
| rowth of cemeteries in England, has declared
| favor of cremation. Several cremation So
Ieties have annoyed the old gentleman by
promising him vass free il he will set the
world good example when his time comes
HERBERT SPENCER takes an odd interest in the
most trivial personal pecuiaritieS of stranger,
and is apparently possessed of consummate
curiosity as to the motives of apparently unm-
portant acts. When he meets new acquaint-
ance he plies the person, be 1t man or woman,
with innumerable questions He will ask such
persons as to their dress and habits of daily life
II he notices any popularity OF conduct at table,
he unhesitatingly thrusts a question at the OBJ
ject of his curiosity.
SARDoU is said to have been interviewed re-
Gently by one OF the editors Of the Gdutois with
respect to Zola's candidature for seat In the
academy. He considered the idea absurd. ut
will forgive lola his offences against decency
and the French language" Sardou is reported
to have expressed himself on the same o casou
with regard to Daudet in these words: "Daudet
has but one enemy in the world but that a very
bitter one it is not the academy, but French
grammar"
Mr.. JUSTICE LAMAR OF the United States
supreme court, says the Chicago Tribune,
awarded the prizes at the annual coaching
peal was taken from any of his decisions and no
fault found with any of his rulings. This sug
gests an idea. Whv cannot the justices be as
as umpres at base ball matches and judges Of
horse races. 1t is often said by losers that
honest men are rarely found in these positions.
But evon the heaviest losers could not challenge
the fairness OF Judge Lamar when presiding at
a horse race: and II Chief Justice Fuller were to
decide against the Chicago club while uinpirinR
a game on the home grounds not even Arson
would expostulate. Then too, 1t would do the
Justices good to mix up with the honest yeo-
many OF the country as they turn out at Sara
toga and the West Side driving park. IL would
expand their mental horizons and sweep the
legal cobwebs ont OF their brains. Do let the
expounders Of the constitution have chance at
the base ball rules.
AN ITEM going the rounds Of the society Jour
nails is TO the effect that Mrs Van Kirkman, nee
Miss Kate Thompson of Memphis, Tenn, is one
Of the handsomest women now at Saratoga
There is not the slightest doubt that the journals
are right, says the New York Graphic, but that
Mrs. Van kirkman is still such handsome
woman only shows what n transcendent beauty
she once was, for she has been going Off her
looks" for ten years to the ObSsrrerS certain
knowledge. Not that she is old either, but that
southern girls come out ridiculously young,
and through late hours, trying climate and
careless hygiene generally, are past their prime
OF good looks before they roach maturity. III
they were not, for some occult reasons that the
Observer does not pretend to fathom, born a
little handsomer on the whole than northern
girls, they would not be able TO hold their own
after ~ or ~. Miss Kate Thompson, when she
was a little school girl at small, but swell
boarding school situated in the Tennessee
mountains, was vision of loveliness. But she
did not stay school girl after II, and when
she came out, being n beauty and an hsiress, She
became belle, and spent her life Ia such an un-
reeirained giddy whirl as only the southerner
among American girls still keeps up. She be-
gan 20 lose her beauty Of course, aud she has
gone on losing IL ever since, and yet she is now
one Of the handsomest women ut SaEaiogsi