The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-23
PERSONAL.

THE Pope has ordered golden rose to be sent
to the Princess Regent of Brazil in honor Of the
liberation of all the slaves in the empire.
Mrs. GARFIELD, widow of the murdered Pres
dent is in comfortable financial circumstances.
She is worth about S400,000, and her yearly in
come is about $4,000.
DANIEL DoUaHERTY ''the silver-tongued ora
tor who made the speech nominating Cleve-
land at st. louis began life as a stable boy in q
Philadelphia livery stable
Dom PEDRO is much better and goes out driy-
ing regularly. If he fingers long he will bank
rupt the Brazilian treasury. His bills at Milan
for one month amounted to $4,000.
THE Countess of Aberdeen is warm friend of
Ireland. She wears shamrocks in her bonnet in
London, and one of her handsomest costumes is
a gray Irish poplin embroidered with sham
rocks.
CORNELIUS COLLINS, of the government bureau
of engraving and printing has been a most
faithful and psrsevering worker He has lost
only five days in twenty-four years during
VIII oh he has been in the service of the govern
ment.
President CLEVELAND is now called upon in
the performance of his official duties to grace
fully accept watermelons from various parts of
the country. c. b. Vail of Augusta Ga. is the
first donor and addressed his juicy gift to Our
next President"
THE Archduchess Valerie, youngest daughter
of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, has
repeatedly refused offers of marriage, as she
had great aversion to wedlock She has
changed her mind, however-she is only 20
and Is about to marry her cousin, the Archduke
Francis, eldest son of the Archduke Charles
Louis. He is % years old and captain of a regi-
ment of dragons The Archduchess Valerie is
a brilliant and accomplished young woman,
though slangy people might consider her rather
cranky"
IT is told that Judge Thurman. having one
day party of fellow lawyers at his house.
invited them to have drink. But all he could
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gravely opened and said: Friends, Mrs, Thur
man will not permit any liquor to be in this
house, and must offer you just What get my
self" They drank the Apollinaris water
judge followed them out into the street. "The
fact is, gentlemen" said he, that though Mrs.
Thurman does run that house, she does not
control the whole town. | want some whisky
to wash the taste of that Apollinaris water out
of my mouth"
The late George Gabriel Of New Haven Conn
was an interesting character. He was born in
Suffield, Conn, in 1899 He went to New Haven
in 1928, and subsequently became an umbrella
and parasol maker and repairer in that city.
His will bequeaths $4,000 to Yale college and
$1,000 20 Yale divinity school. He was mag
niftcent man i'll personal appearance, and his
mind was active and cultivated. He was an
artist of no mean ability. He was fine illus
tration of the fact that in this country man
may follow an humble occupation and still sun
round himself with the attributes of intel
lectualty and culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson
would have admired Gabriel
SEVEN" being the average size OF mans
head as measured by his hat, says a London
exchange, It appears that out OF fourteen dis
tinguished personages, two Qord Chelmsford
and Dean Stanley were below, while other two
Q4ord Beaconsfeld and the Prince of Wales)
were exactly up to the average OF the Others
Dickens Seborne and Bright required 7ls, Earl
Russell I'd, Lord Macauley, Gladstone and
Thackeray ~, Louis PHILIPPE ia. and the Arch
bishop Of York 3 full or twenty-three dis
finputglpd mn xyh artiIal pfrrht
known, four, including the late Prof Hughes
Bennett and Hermann, the Philoogist, were dis
tinctly below the average, showing that well
constituted brain OF small Dimensions may be
capable OF doing much better work than many
larger organ whose internal constitution Is,
from one cause or other, defective,