The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-06
PERSONAL.

c. H. JACKSON and George A. Jackson, father
and son, the former 3d. the latter % years old
are rivals for class honors in Hillsdale College
They both expect to graduate in June
Mrs. OSCAR WILDE follows out her husbands
idea of harmony in color in every room in her
house. Even the cat is of an aesthetic tint, and
nothing offends Oscar more than to see this cat
drag in piece of liver on the Japanese carpet.
II Spoils all the unities.
PLEASANT HOPKINS, of Venango Valley, Pa
predicts that between July ~ and 15 this year
the thermometer will rise to 1852 and the fields
will be SO parched that thousands of cattle will
perish. Pleasant has been predicting for twenty
years. but hasn't struck it yet.
ONE of the most gorgeous turnouts in Wash
ington this season is the drag of Congressman
Morse of Massachusetts,. II has brilliant scar
let wheels, and when it comes rolling down
Pennsylvania avenue all the colored folks rush
out, under the impression that the wild beasts
and the herd of elephants are only few blocks
behind
CHIEF SECRETARY BALFouR, of Ireland, is a
very good violin player, and he often surprises
his friends by scrapng Kathleen Mavourneen'
and other pathetic Irish ballads. They say in
Ireland, though, that his playing is only finger
deep, and that the plaintive melodies of the ever
green isle tonch no responsive chord in his al
legged heart
GEN Don ANTONIO FLORES, the President of
Ecuador, is looked upon pretty much in the
same light there as George Washington was
here in the early days OF the American republic.
Gen Flores is perfect soldier, an author of no
mean ability, and has been his country's repre-
sentative in this country and in nearly all the
leading capitals of Europe.
THE venerable father of the gallant Custer
still lives at Monroe, Mich, where he is a
preacher In the Methodist church Although SO
years of age he is still strong and vigorous, and
is found in his pulpit every Sunday. rain or
shine. He is aifectionately called Father
Custer by the town residents who love him for
his pohlanaSs Of baarT and kindly Iionositiou
Col DoNN PIATT is in the Providence Hos.
pital, Washington. Col. Pratt is noted for the
illegbty of his handwriting. and when he sent
a note to a friend the other day the friend was
shocked TO read postscript which read II am
in a blamed hornets nest" After some further
study it was discovered that what Piatt had
really written was: Il am in a blessed haven of
rest"
BISHOP FOWLER believes n good idea, even If
stolen, will put to rOut myriad of plattudes.
He advises some young preachers at Hoboken
as follows Grace Is free, but brains and abil-
ity are not You must have ideas to preach
from and IL you haven't got any of your own,
steal them But be honest about it and own
up like man, and your congregation will not
be offended. They like an abundance of ideas
even If they are borrowed.
FRANK F. PATTERSON. the editor of the Cam
den Courier, is so deaf that il tears the lining
out Of mans throat to talk to him for ten
minutes Notwithstanding his atlliction, Mr..
reported the proceedings of the State Legsla-
ture at Trenton He seems TO possess an intui-
tive faculty for knowing just what each mem
Der means TO say. and he frequently astonshes
his rivals by his knowledge of debate of which
he has not heard n single word.
MAJ. WILLIAM J. FIELDING, formerly Of Brook
lyn, now of Philadelphia, has become a great
pedestrian He takes n morning walk of four
miles before breakfast every day, and in the
afternoon about o'clock takes a spin through
Fairmount Park, at a rapid gait. The Major is
a very graceful runner, and when he comes
bowling down the path in a closely fitting jer
sey. corduroy brooches and English running
shoes, he attracts very general attention. He is
thinking seriously of attempting to break the
l0Oyard record during the summer.
GEORGE KEENAN,. Vice President of the Wash.
ington Literary Society, created something OF
sensation at the last meeting of that body by
appearing clad in tattered garments and loaded
down with heavy chains while he read some
affecting letters from Russian State prisoners
detailing the crueltes 10 which the imprisoned
subjects of the Car were subjected. The read
ing had such an affect on the company that
many of them were moved 10 tears and Samuel
l.. Clemens was 30 wrought up that he declared
in hll seriousness that II he were n Russian he
would certainly be a revolutonist,