The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-25
PERSONAL.

THE octogenarian Duke of Devonshire writes
all his own letters, in a firm and Iegible hand.
Gov. LouNsBuRY, of Connecticut, has given
up the house he has been occupying at Hart
ford.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland celebrate
the second anniversary of their marriage on
June2.
THE Royal University of Ireland lately CON
ferred the degree of Master OF Arts on five
young women.
j. NJ ALLEN MAXI, a Japanese. graduated
lately from the Reformed Church Theological
Seminary at New Brunswick, M.
HENRY IRVING is thought by some of the more
acute critics in London to have had his accent
distinctly Americanized by his tour in this
country.
DR. AGNEw said that no man has lived to be
100 years old since Biblical days, and that all
such reports come from ignorance or mistakes.
out of twenty case he investigated, not one
proved authentic.
SIR LIONEL WEST, the British Minister at
Washington, will go to Paris to attend his
daughters wedding in June, and will return
with his younger daughters to spend the rest of
the summer at Beverly, Mass.
DEED for piece Of land in Windsor, Conn,
has recently come to light, which is made vau-
able aud interesting by the fact that it bears
the name of Matthew Grant, the first Ameri-
can ancestor of Gen. Grant. Its date is April
8, 1861.
A FRIEND of Mr. Blaine, Congressman, said
recently to a Washington correspondent that
the pride and cold manners of Mrs. Blaine pre-
vented her husband from obtaining the Prcsi-
dency This seems to ease up Rev. Mr.. Burchard
somewhat
GEN. z. c. WALTHALL, the junior Senator from
Mississippi is said to look like cavalier who
has just stepped out from one Of Sir Peter
L.ely's canvaSes. He is six feet tall, symmetri-
cal, with fine head of dark hair that falls in
curls about his neck.
The present Sam Ward, of the Washington
lobby Is described as n tall, fine looking gentle
man of courtly manners, a Virgnian by BIRTH
and during the war Confederate surgeon. 1t
is fifteen years since he took up his residence at
the capital and his influence has grown steadily
since.
A SAN Francisco nautical Journal in record
ing the death of an old sea captain, speaks of
him in the following novel style: Capt. b. b.
Sharp has gone up aloft where he can now live
among the stars he loved to speak about No
more lunar observations nor plain-sailing will
the old man lay out to aspiring young captains
or mates. He has let 90 his anchor, the cable
is out to the bare end, and that has slipped
through the hawse hole"
CAPT. j. N. COFFIN of WATERFOWL Mass, has
been around the world, and Just returned to
Boston, from which city he sailed in April, 1886,
for England thence to the Continent and the
East Indies, via the Suez canal, China and
Japan. He was eight months in China and two
months in Japan. The return trip was across
the Pacific to san Francisco and down through
Mexico. Such trip as this is liberal educa-
ton to a man with mind capable of digeSting
what his eyes take in.
A LADY correspondent of the New York World
says that Judge Gresham's wife is nothing of a
politician nor society woman" in the strict
sense Of the term. She lacks the ambition of a
thorough going politicians wife, but is not cold,
like Mrs. Blaine Her popularity continues
the writer, lis due to other qualities than dip
lomacy, though no one ever accused her OF
n want of grace proper TO the occasion. She is
lady OF education and refinement, and Of
modest, home-like manners. she has daugh-
ter just grown, who is reported quite beautiful,
) and son vino is bright young LAWYER"