The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-06
PERSON AL.

THE Duke of Newcastle politely declines to be
interviewed.
LoRD SALISBURY devotes his leisure to books
on botany, a science which has long been hob
by with the English Premier
President CARNoT says that any Frenchman
who would declare war against Germany while
Moltke and Bismarck are alive ought to be shot.
L. p Roe has written a short serial story for
the independent, entitled Found. Yet Lost q"
Like much of Mr.. Roe'S recent work. ii has to
do with the civil war.
BosToNIANs have discovered that Henry Irving
can deliver more words to the minute than the
Rev. Phillips Brooks. No one who has never lived
in Boston can realize how great sensation this
discovery has made at the Hub.
Mn. FAY, the eccentric American millionaire,
who is building veritable castle in the air in
Mexico says that when completed it will be
more wonderful construction than the legend
airy suspended gardens in Babylon. 1t will prob
ably be called the Fay folly.
WORTH. the French milner. lives in the
suburbs of Paris in a palace that covers several
acres and is gorgeously furnished. Once "A year
II is thrown open TO his employees and the fete
lasts day and night. n this day each of
the women employed by Worth is permitted to
select dress from his stock, and it is made up
according 10 her directions,
MRS OLE BULL has recently paid visit to
New York, and having been impressed with the
beauty Of the teak wood, ordered quantity of
it. she has had designs made for mantel-
piece and several doors. besides one or two
pieces of furniture. and these designs are to be
sent 10 China to be carved expressly for her
The wood will form striking feature of the
drawing room in the new house she is building
at Cambridge, Mass. Another room, which she
calls her Norwegian room, has all its wood
decorations in pine.
MAJ ANDREW WELLS. who rode in the ia
mcus charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cav.
airy at Charlottesville received a note while
maiden, asking him to do her some slight ser
vice. The gallant Major rode to her house out
side the Union lines and was captured by the
enemy. He was sent TO Libby prison. and mar
rowly escaped hanging. Fora quarter of a cen
fury he cherished grIdge against that fair
Southern girl who, as he Thought. had lured him
into danger A few days ago he learned her
address and wrote to her. In reply TO his letter
she proved her innocence of all thoughts of
treachery and told of her endeavors to save him
from hanging.
FRANK g. CARPENTER, the clever and enter
tanning Washington correspondent, is a puzzle
TO good many people. He has none of the
dash and audacity that distinguishes some of
his confrereS, but all the same he manages to
get hold Of what he wants TO know and that
without offending any sensibties. Mr. Car.
penter does m enormous amount OF work. In
this respect he ranks with Cath" and 10 How
ard, though he has not the physique of either
slender, pale and high-strung. with keen, hazel
eyes, and an expression of intense earnestnesS
he has more the air of a student than
an active journalist Carp" was the
nom dc plume, or rather abbreviation of
his name, under which Mr.. Carpenter
wrote for several years for the Cleveland
Leader. His letters were widely copied par
ticulnrly the well drawn pen pictures Of famous
men and women Foreign travel gave him op.
portunty To make use of his descriptive powers
with such effect that the American Press Asso.
citation made arrangements with him for two
letters "A week for n syndicate Of 300 newspa-
pers. In addition TO this the energetic young man
furnished al a. lfssl.
for different periodicals and for the leading
journals Of Philadelphia aud other cities Alto
gether his busy pen brings IN an income of
$1,000 When Congress adjourns Mr.. Car
penter win start on prolonged trip round the
world. lie will take with him his wife, a bright
and pretty woman who enters into his work
with ready sympathy, and tiny. sweet faced
little son already devoted % bad pencils.