The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-31
PERSONAL.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT GARLAND says he feels ''as
clipper ms a boy. He will spent all October
dcer-shooting in Arkansas.
RIcHAnD Henry SToDDARD has written only
one poem during the past year. His sefcontrol
is much to be commended
JAY GOULD bought a ticket on horse at the
Saratoga race course a few days ago. 1t is
supertiuoIs to add that he won.
THE Chinese minister at Washington has de-
yelOped a great JondneSS for watching profess
sional base ball. He never yels at the umpire
MELVILLE Demon, Dakota man, is said to
be the homeliest man in the United States He
possesses a handsome fortune of IS, 200, 900,
however
PRINCESS VICTORIA OF WALES has developed a
remarkable talent for pastel-drawing, and has
just completed very clever portrait of Queen
Victoria.
THERE is a coachman at Saratoga who ls at
tracing good deal OF attention by bis wonder
full resemblance to the pictures of the first Duke
of Wellington
EMILE ZoLA says that everything in modern
society is going TO rottenness. Society has
been going to his books q good deal, il that's
what he means.
Mrs. BuRLINGAME, widow of Arson Burlin.
game who negotiated a treaty between this
country and China, died on Saturday at her
home on Long Island Her son is the editor of
ScribHe''S MdqdStite.
THE ParlS GdufOtS announces the engage
ment at Paris Of Mrs. Joseph Riggs, of Wash
ington, to the Prince Ruspoli, whose brother
was married Il few years ago to Miss Curtis,
sister of the divorced wife OF the Marquis of
Talley Pcrigord. The Ruspos are one of
the most ancient families of the Roman aristoc
racy.
Mr.. FATHER the messenger of Riggs bank.
Washington, who was overcome by the heat at
the Senate end of the capitol one day last week,
had entered the capitol TO dun certain senators
md IN nTniaQtfA1 IIa
him." said one senator. He won't come up
here again soon to dun statesmen
An English publisher recently wrote TO Rob
ert Browning Offering him largo price for
short essay on The Tendencies OF Cotem-
temporary Poetry " Browning replied with
Characteristic frankness that he never wrote
prose for pay, and that the only poems he
knew anything about were his own. He might
have added that the tendency Of his poems is to
beget pedantc societies.
Mrs. GARY, wife of Judge Gary of Chicago,
hires three or four new servants every week.
The anarchists of Chicago hate Judge Gary and
constantly send him threatening misslves. Serv-
ants are not, as a general thing, willing to run
tho risk of ACKNOWLEDGMENT by dynamite for the
sake OF retaining good situation. Judge Gary
laughs at the threats of the anarchists, but hs
wife finds the servant problem anything but q
laughing matter.
Mas. CLEVELAND has boon adding many be.
coming garments to he- wardrobe OF late pre-
paratory 10 her visit TO Lenox. One Of tho
most interesting purchases she has made is
pair Of rtIssct-colored tourist shoes Clad in q
light brown, tailor-made dress. trimmed wish
darker shade of brown, and with brown veil
wound around a straw hat, she looks most
brownably bewitching," as democratic SEN
ator remarked few days ago.
WHEN Sig. Verdi arrived at Montecatini,
where he Is spending his vacation this year, he
found a fine grand piano installed in the sitting
room which had been taken there for him. II
was open, and as a delicate compliment TO his
INDUSTRIOUS guest, the proprietor Of the hotel had
placed the score OF ''rrovatore" on the stand
over the keyboard. The composer removed the
book, closed the instrument, locked IL, put the
key In his pocket, started for walk and flung
the key over the edge Of deep rayino.