The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-31

PERSONAL.

Miss JENNY FLOOD, the daughter of the Cali
fornia 15-millionaire is an excellent business
woman, and personally manages her own snug
little fortune of So, 100000
NINE CHRISTINE NILSSON was recently asked
by London manager to give six oneratic
performances and offered the entire receipts
OF four of them in payment. She declined.
HER ROYAL HIGHNEss PRINCESS CHRISTIAN con
tributed AN article on Nursing as a Profession
for Women to the April number of the Wom-
ans World, the monthly magazine edited by
Oscar Wilde.
DR.. w. H. RUSSELL, known in this country as
Bull Run Russell. of the London Times, says
that the late Emperor William once received
him with the smiling greeting, You are the
ambassador of very great power"
A FEW DAYS before his marriage to Miss
Munck Prince Oscar of Sweden went unrecov
nized into a London shop to buy photograph
frame. He selected one and then the shop
keeper asked if he didn't want photograph to
put in it. oh; yes" said the Prince, II don't
selected a portrait Of Miss Munck and handed
ii 10 MIN with the remark: This is the most
popular one now. 1t is the girl who is going to
be married to the Swedish Prince"
MATHEW ARNOLD is lecturing in England or
what he didn't like in America ineXhaustible
subject to the amable English traveller. He saws
that his teeth were set on edge by the names of
some American towns. Then he sets every
body else's teeth on edge by giving such names
as "Griggsve'' and 'Briggsville." Well, Mat
thew, Arthur Cholmondelcy Bulwer- Higgins
was in this country when these towns were
named, and he set everybody's teeth on edge,
and that's how they happened to name the
towns.
CAPT. PENNINGTON, the port Captain Of the
Clyde Steamship Company in New York, is
known to his associates and travellers generally
as the Christian Captain" dozen years ago
he was one of the most profane men that the
mind could picture, and was a terror to his sub
ordinates, ruling them. as he DID, with hand
of iron. He was converted to Christianity
aOunt seven years ago, and is now one of the
gentlest men in the maritime rvice He is as
intrepid and determined as ever. but wonder
fully softened and ennobled, and there is not a
sailor who knew him of old who would not risk
his life for the man who was once a watchful
and exacting tyrant.
AMONG the visitors in Philadelphia last week
was Mr. A. p. Gordon Cunning, Of Altyre. son of
the late and brother of the present Ba-onet. the
head of one OF the old Scotch famil eS. MIR
GOrdon.Cumng, says the Ledger. ii, married
to q daughter of the late Hon. Char IS Eames
formerly United States Minister to Venezuela.
One Of his brothers is the author of book of
travels in Africa, another OF one of adventures
in India aud his sSter-in-law wrote very clever
book about China. Among his Gordon ances-
tors were the settlers of Gordonsvill1 in Nir-
ginia. SO that his connection with this country.
dating back to 1850, is much earlier than that Of
most OF our oldest families The distinguished
gentleman warmly received by the Phila-
delphians and made many friends in their city.
| HEARD az the club says writer in the Bos-
ton advertiser. an anecdote illustrating the
fair .mindedness of the late Chief Justice Waite
which has an especial interest, as il related to
an affair in which well-known Judge Of one of
our courts here in Boston was connected. The
Judge was then practicng law in Toledo and
he aud Waite being very close friends as well
as professional intimateS, were in the habit of
leaving cases in which one was interested to the
arbitration of the other. On one occasion Mr.
Waite was surprised that a certain case which
his friend had heard was decided against him,
and he at once called the lawyer TO account for
what he regarded an unjust decision. Thus
brought to bay, his friend appealed to Mr.
WAite's fairness. aud went over the case care
fully recalling what each witness had testified
When ne had finished the future Chief Justice
came up 10 him and said: You decided per-
iectly right, and | should have done the same
had the case come before me-"