The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-22
PERSONAL.

MISS ELEANOR WINSTON. the famous Boston
beauty, and her mother will sail for Europe
after leaving Washington at the end of this
month.
PRoF. VAN BENsCHoTEN. of Wesleyan Uuiver-
sty, owns one of the rarest gems of Greek pot
terry in existence. II IS an Athenian vase which
was made 1000 B. C.
MIcAJAH HANcocK. who lives in Pulaski
county, Indiana. and claims to be a grandson of
John Hancock, of revolutionary fame, cee-
brated his Tooth birthday last Monday.
WILSON BARRETT, the actor. has written
clever little American story which is printed in
the Theatre, Clement SCOTS well known Lon
don dramatic magazine. The scene is laid in
Pennsylvania.
OsMAN DIGNA. that active and unrepentant
rebel, has gained another victory near Suakm
Dgna is known to fame as the man who has
been reported killed more frequently than
Henry NJ. Stanley.
MARY BAKER the once famous fasting girl of
White county, Indiana is now employed in a
restaurant at Monticello and weighs 100 pounds
whereas at the close of her long fast she kicked
the beam at 3519 pounds.
~ X FAIRBANK the wealthy Chicago lard
man. Frequently makes the boast that he can
lay a brick as well as q flPst-cass working mason
can He was a maSon'S apprentice when a boy
and learned his trade well.
The Queen Of Portugal is an accomplished
potter. When staying at the seaside last year
she constantly visited an important factory close
by and was interested that she took lessons
in the whole process OF manufacture.
NINE GERsrER, whose recent failure in opera
created a sensation in musical circles, is now
living with her brother, DR.. Gerster, in Twenty
fifth street, New York, where she is undergo
ing treatment in the hope of recovering her
voice.
Mrs Tom RI JoN is New York woman who
comes in frequent collision with the police
because of her pertiuacity in wearing male
apparel. Her husband formerly published a
paper called the Volcano and they have two
children named respectively Revenge and
Retaliation.
PRINcE CHrN, the father of the reigning En-.
peror of China is not dead as was reported in
the cable dispatches some two weeks ago, but
merely suffering from passing indispostion
due to "A treatment of powdered offers liver to
which he had been subjected by his natl, e
medical attendant. An English physician Of
the name of DR., Manson has now been sum
moned from Hong Kong to take charge of the
case of his imperial hghnesS, this being the first
occasion on which foreign doctor hasFever at
tended member of the imperial family of
China.
Ex-CoLLEcroR Rooney W. DANIELS, Of Buff.
falo is one of those breezy taFerS, who are al
ways entertaining by reason both of their knowl-
edge aud their expression OF that knowledge
II never knew what the word cyclone meant, -
he said here yesterday, until ] witnessed the
operation of the dynamite gun. Imagine a
chunk of iron the size Of blacksmith's anvil
being hurled three miles on a straight line by a
puff of air. That is what the dynamite gun
does merely when it is being cleaned to see if
the chambers are free When | was out in
Colorado some time ago. they showed me hy-
drauliC mining. The great streams that played
into the gravel and dirt and moved rocks and
boulders a. ii they were feathers did not seem
very powerful. But II you stood by the nozzle
whore the water was pouring out, and dropped
a stone ia IT, the stone would shoot far up into
the air. The stream OF water was as solid as
iron 50 far as making an impact on II was con
for hundreds OF feet Well, all that is mere
child's play beside the force OF compressed air
as II II used IA tht dynamite gun,"