The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-03
PERSONAL.

Giro, PINsUTI, the song writer who died the
other day. was a pupil of Rossini and a close
friend of Mario Grisi, Bosio and Ronconi.
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS. of Illinois, is said to
wear the loudest overcoat in Washington. 1t is
of beaver fur, and is only equaled by one which
Ben Butler sometimes wraps around his big
frame.
SENATOR EDMUNDS wears silk underwear
almost exclusively. 1t is made especially for
him in Paris, and is buttoness aud seamless.
When the Senator gets the whole outfit on he
looks as if he had been poured in, the fit is so
perfect.
THE late Duke of Rutland had at Belvoir a
confession book" in which the Princess of
Wales recorded that her favorite artist was
Rubens, her favorite author Die lens her favorite
dish Yorkshire pudding, and her favorite am
bitIon nonnterference in other peoples bust
ness.
THE present German Empress is the fifth En-
glsh Princess who has held that rank. The
others were Edgyth, daughter of Edward the
Elder. wife of otto L.; Gunhild. daughter of
Knut wife of Henry Ill of Germany; Matilda
the link between the Norman and Plantagenet
dynasties wife of Henry V. of Germany: and
Isabella daughter of King John wife Of Fred
erick H., the Wonder of the World This last
named Princess was direct ancestor of the late
Prince ConSort of England, and therefore of the
present German Empress.
ADMIRAL PORTER is justly entitled to be called
the FOUNDER of the Naval Academy" When
Nr. Bancroft was Secretary of the Navy be said
to Porter then Lieutenant: What can do
to improve the service In answer Porter slid:
Give rs a naval academy. The one at Phla
delphia is only an apology for one, unworthy of
the country. Go down to Annapolis and obtain
from the War department its reservation on he
banks of the Severn and there build a naval
school which will be worthy of the country and
a monument to yourself" And it was done.
MARY ANN SNoDGRAss, of Hucklebelry corner.
n. j., is the envy of all Monmouth county. She
has speckled barnyard hen that began on Ash
Wednesday to lay colored eggs. They were OF
a brownish tint. On Saturday last she (the hem
laid beautiful pea green egg, with a distinct
representation of palm leaf on the broad end.
On Sunday She (the hem laid two eggs. One of
the was a delicate scarlet, with Wavy lines of
white, and the other was deeply, darkly, beau
tifully blue. with passementerie trimming on
the corners The hen is non-cacklcr, and all
her wonderful laying is done without the use of
a net.
WILLARD p SHAW. of the law firm of Ewing
& Southland, New York, was astonished when he
rived at his home in Paterson, \. j., on Mon
day last from Florida. to find that Ills family
had been SO completely showed under during
the blizzard that they were compelled TO dig a
tunnel throu -h the snow TO reach the malnan.
While the bowling blast was banking up the
Paterson home with great drifts, the head of
the household was quitting the health-giving
Zephyrs in the baltuy atmosphere of the Ameri-
can tropics and feasting his eyes on the golden
fruit, hanging in clusters from the over-laden
trees in the God-protected groves OF ever green
Florida. In other words he was eatin' oranges
by the quarter peck.
Roscoe Combines HAIR is getting thinner on
the top of his head and one with sharp eyes
can the outline of his skull back of the fore
head. The scalp is of the ruddy tint. which
makes his brow look a little fevered. and which
deepens in color on his checks and neck so that
the man seams as il be were blushing. Still il
is only his usual healtaful glow, heightened, by
the increasing wtitenesS Of his hair. That ia
nous curl over The middle of his forehead
which his Carcaturist used TO burlesque 50
sharply, has lost its old-time glory. and has
dwindled so that il is only n small image of its
old self There used to be told a story that
Senator Conkltng wore the curl 20 conceal a
scar which he had received from horse when
a lad. The scar must have been small and
slight for it is pretty hard TO see anything of it
now that the curl has reiterated.