The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-22
PERSONAL.

SIR THOMAS EsMoNDE, VI. P, who is now in
this country on Il mission from Mr. Parnell, is
au enthusiastic follower of the hounds in Ire
land.
THE Gar receives from his treasury officers
every year $500, 900 roubles for household ex
penses. and 2000 900 for his stable rouble is
worth CSC
Mas. JOHN w. MACKAY has been having a
grand round of entertainments in the form of
dinner parties at her residence in Buckingham
Gate, Eng.
THE cost of maintaining the imperial family
Of Germany, with all its various branches, is
$50, 0O0,000 a year. The Sultan of Turkey cost
the people S15,0OO,00O annually.
THERE are only four men now living who
have personally received the thanks of the Con-
gress of the United States. They are Gems.
sherman, Sheridan, Howard and Terry
THE Rajah of Sikkim is said to be losing in
fiuence with his people Any one who cares to
be funny at the expense of the Rajah and the
Sikkimites is at perfect liberty to do his worst
GEN ANsoN McCooK is the typical frontier
soldier Strongly marked features. a high
broad forehead and head of hair like the name
of lion, are characteristics that make him
noticeable in any assemhlage. He does NOT
look unlike the late John A. Logan
Rev. DR.. HARcouRr. of San Francisco. Cal
recently delivered a sermon on intemperance.
Upon the edge of the pulpit ne placed seven
bottles containing samples of liquor from seven
different saloons The preacher then pro eeded
to give his hearers the results of a chemical
analysis OF the SAMPLES which he had personally
conducted. 1t Is seldom that realism is used to
such effect by minister.
A CORRESPONDENT who recently saw Nine.
Carnot, the wife Of the President of France.
writes that she is a woman who does not look
older than five and wv nty, although she is I'M.
deniubly in the forties and is the mother of a
married daughter Nine Carnnt is said TO have
transformed the Elysee. having beautif1ed the
fnrrnpr cold infaror M ha mil opdr a.,
receptions more sought after than they were in
Nine Grevy S time.
SINCE tho the death of Katkoff, the man who
is supposed TO have the most influence with the
Car Is his former tutor, Possett, with whom he
has always been intimate This gentleman
who was formerly a professor in the university
il nov the procurRtor Of the holy synod and a
meTher Of the privy synod. Another man who
EXERCISES profound iafiucn. over the Car is
Ivan Of Oronstadt, hermit priest, who IS said
20 perform miracles AMI Whom the Car FIRE.
qiently visits in his rnonaetic cell.
Thus FAR Prof. Ernst Won wechnlar, Of Der.
lin, has found only one obstacle in the way Of
"atng hi. flying machine an instantaneous
success. He can skim from steeple to steeple
all right but when he attempts to swoop he
gets into trouble. The professor is built on tn
aldrrmauic priaclplc, and tie effort to turn up
side down throws his wings out of gear and he
goes Hopping to earth with MS rudler waggling
like the spoon on q pickerel liue. Barring this
and tle risk he runs of being shot at by dime
museum ambassadors he is getting along
famously.
THE following item has been on the road for
ten days; 'Niscount ENersly, who is g3 is the
oldest British pc r. amt the youngest is the
Duke Of Albany. ninety years his junior" IL
went over the usual Chicago. Pittsburg and Bos-
ton photographic circuit without mishap. but
came to grief at Oshkosh. where the erudite
shipper made Junior read ''janitor," and in
its anne lded form the paragraph was blown into
New York with the blizzard. The Dock de
lpecac, who is up at the Hoffman. says that
such statement Is preposterous. "No man."
says the Dock, could be a ianitor for ninety
years; so very absurd on its face, don't you
know