The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-07
PERSONAL.

CANDIDATE HARRIsoS's favorite authors are
Scott, Thackeray and George Eliot. His favor
lite poet is James WhitcomD Riley.
Representative BACON, Of New York bears
a striking resemblance to the pictures of Will
lam Shakespeare. The coincidence is a curious
one.
PRINCE HENRY, of Battenberg. recently Of
Tended her majesty, his mother-in-law, by re-
marking that he was glad to visit the land of
Great Scott" For ndulging in slang Victoria
locked his pocket money for week.
The Empress of Japan is rapidly becoming
one of the best informed women of her time.
She is a hard student Of German, Russian,
French and Italian, and it is said that her
majesty has certain days of the week upon
which japanese is forbidden language
ROBERT BROWNING is quite restored to health
and strength He is simmering in an obscure
part of the Austrian Tyrol, but will soon go TO
Venice, where he will henceforth reside in the
fine palace ReZzonica, one of the most imposing
on the Grand canal, which he has recently
bought.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has just en-
tered upon his SOth year lie was born in the
same year with Robert c. Winthrop, Abraham
Lincoln, William Il. Gladstone Charles Darwin
Alfred Tennyson, and Monckton Mines The
autocrat rs still a boy at heart and thousands
wish him a long life yet.
ARTHUR E. BArEMAS, the banker who can
now afford 20 keep yacht that cost him So
600, was once an apprentice boy in the United
States navy. He afterward became a lleuten-
ant in the revenue marine service. Now he has
offices in New York and Washington, and is
heavily interested in railroads.
DIR. ScHwEINFuRrH Bismarck's doctor, has
simple system Of reducing bis patients weight.
He must abstain from drinking at meals
although he may drink freely half an hour be-
fore or after meals. This system would work
beautifully In kentucky, "a 1t would knock out
the tn ee-meal-a-day habit and thus allow
rapid cure TO be effected.
The late Lord Alfred Paget was the oldest
member OF the queens household, having held
small position at court for something like
fifty years He was a rollicking old chap of tho
old school, and an uncle of the marquis Of
Anglesea. His greatest happiness was TO aid
in coaching new actress or provide a late sup
per for iaded ballet girl
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE NAVY COMMODORE
HARMONY is convinced that this country could
take care Of herself in a war with England or
any other country. He says: Our guns are as
good as my in the world. From what | eau
learn, England has had much difficulty with her
guns. We have been on the alert, and where
the Europeans have made mistakes in their
manufacture of great gups we have proflted by
their experience and avoided their Mistakes
GEORGE W. CHILDs. the Philadelphia editor,
keeps three houses always in readiness for occu-
pancy. RE can sleep, therefore, in Philadelphia,
at Long Branch or at Bryn Mawr and still bO
at home. He stops at any of his homes Just as
the fancy seiZes him, A man VINO knew that
Nlr, OnllOs was an eultOr, out ulu not KNOW tnat
his income was between S3O0O0O and S-0O 900 a
year, could be pardoned for supposing that bis
domestic arrangements were devised merely
with view TO escaping dunS.
GIuIIA MoRosTSI, daughter of the well-known
banker OF New York has astoniShed Saratoga
by her skill as an eqlestrlenne She mounts
her Kentucky thoroughbred every pleasant
afternoon at O'Clock, and accompanied by
groom doshes along Broadway in manner
that attracts general attention. She is a beau
tlful girl. and her petite figure looks at its best
on horseback. Her father always stands
Watching her until she is out of sight, smile of
satisfaction playing over his handsome face.
ALpHoSsE DAuDEr repels tho caarge that no
wrote 'Llmmortel" In pique at being an lIasuc-
cessiul candidate for Che academy. lie inserts
the following brief preface in the edition which
makes the sixtieth thousand of his novel
"LImmortel" The statements of various
journals that "LImmortel" was the expression
OF a base feeling OF revenge on the part of a
defeated candidate, induce me to prefix to this
new edition the letter | addressed to the Figaro
five years ago: II am not a candidate for tho
academy. have never been. and shall never be y"