The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-03
PERSONAL.

WIN D. HowELIs the novelist, will spend the
summer near Boston, and he is now looking for
q house in the suburbs. The thrilling incidents
which pertain to house-hunting may find place
as the central features of one of his forth
coming novels.
spearean scholar, lives in a luxurious old
fashioned house at the corner of Seventh and
Locust streets, Philadelphia. He is a charming
companion, but on account Of his deafness dis
likes to meet strangers.
REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES H. BALDWIN who
sailed for Europe i'll January last, is now in
Paris with health greatly improved. He will
spend most of the summer at Homburg and
other German watering places, and will return
to America i'll the early fall.
EDWARDS PIERREPoNT desires it to be stated
publicly that there is no foundation whatever
for the current report that his wife is the giver
of the Sl2j, 900 TO be used in building new rec-
tation hall at Yale. Mr. Pierrepont does NOT
know who did give the money, but he does
know that Mrs. Pierrepont did not give it.
THE African explorer, Lieut. Kund, the leader
of an expedition which started from BattanCa
into the interior last November, and peached
latitude a. n and longitude l0o 30 E. last Feb
ruGry, was recently attacked by hostile tribes
wnlle crossing the Tsannaga river on his way to
CAMERON. Both he and his companion Lieut.
Tappenbeck, were wounded by rifle shots, but
their injuries are not serious.
Henry FONDA and Douw Fonda are the Oldest
natives of the town of Fonda, n. ", and
probably the Oldest pair of twins in the entire
country. They will DO 10 years of age in July
They are farmers, and occupy land inherited
from ancestors who settled in that locality five
generations ago. This Inheritance formerly in
cluded the entire site of the village of Fonda
but the larger part of il sold by their father
to the company that located the place.
NJ. PEYTRAL, French Minister of Finance,
speaking Oh the Panama loan before the French
Senate sitting in committee, said that il was no
part OF the governments duty to interfere in
matters of private character but that il was
merely incumbent upon it TO inquire how the
loan would influence the market for State Sc
curities, and that there was no need for the
government to concern itself about the loan,
because the country was not interested at
present in financial operations.
The painter and author, Heinrich Hollpeiu.
died recently in Vienna at the age of "a. He
was famous portrait painter forty years ago
and much in vogue in the aristoCratic circles OF
Russia, 10 which country he spent num6er of
years When malady of the eyes compelled
him 10 renounce his art he took to literature
and wrote "A number OF comedies, one of which
"Er Experimental" is still frequently played
at the Vienna Burg Theater. He has left be-
hind hin memoirs which will soon be pub
lished. Hollpein, whose stepfather was a
brother of Franz schubert, was one of the few
persons who followed the great composer to his
grave
Mrs J. @. Aver had a $500 state-room on the
rulda last week and was one of the most pictur-
esque people in the crowds of tourists departing
for Europe. Mrs. Aver is n great friend of Mrs
John Bigelow and has an enormous fortune
made from the sale of a well-known article
often sold now as q soft" drink Mrs. Ayers
wardrobe is as handsome as any that the
United States will send this season, with Dame
Columbia's compliments, TO bloom in Paris.
She is a tall, pleasant looking woman of good
figure, blooming still as 20 the cheeks and set
of us to her red-brown hair with bewitching
imported bonnet. Not an ocean steamer for
weeks past has had vacant good enough accom-
modations for Mrs. Aver