The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-18
PERSONAL.

president CARNoT has returned to Paris from
his trip TO the provinces.
OSCAR WILDE seems to be making a great
success of his periodical, The Ir0ntan's World.
1t has been enlarged
AMONG the winters lecturers at Yale will be
Bishop Potter, the Rev. DR.. William NJ. Taylor,
G. W. Gable and Prof. w. NJ. Sloal of Princeton.
short and parted on the side; but for that her
appearance is altogether feminine, and she de-
lights in fine clothes
Mrs. JAMES BRowN POTTER invaded Phila-
delphia on Sunday morning with sixteen trunks.
She always hopes to pack her houses by I'M
packing her baggage.
THE important news goes forth that Congress-
man Hopkins of Illinois writes with bis left
hand. Somebody will now remark that his left
hand is his write hand.
KING KALAKAuA is in very poor health Lack
of sleep and worry over the unsatisfactory CON
dition of government affairs have made him
thin and nervous. He smokes constantly.
PRINCESS EUGENE of Sweden, who sacrificed
her jewels 10 build hospital on an island off
the coast. where poor cripples might be nursed
and healed, is regarded as insane by her family.
Mrs. BLAIR wife of Senator Blair. has been
elected u trustee of the New Hampshire nor
NAL school, the first instance, it is said, Of a
woman being chosen to such position in that
state.
r.,
but ne prefers bad cigar to a good one. He
uses the cheap cigars the Vienna cabmen affect.
Doubtless he thinks that as man of rank, he
ought to smoke rank cigars.
Mr.. PARNELL's REQUEST that all persons who
received l'tters from him during the years
lSSl-'S will send them to his secretary, for use
before the commission of inquiry, looks as IL he
were not afraid of his utterances.
ExP Postmaster GEN. THOMAS L. JAMES, who
has just returned to New York from England,
reports that the city of London has 5000 letter.
carriers for population of about 5000, 900, and
about d zen deliveries per day
BIERsTADr. the artist in his New York studio,
is putting the Flushing touches 10 mammoth
canvas, on which no figures appear except abor-
igines and buffalos. IL is a picture of a hunt,
and il is said to contain the forms of thousands
upon thousands Of the American bison.
GEN. LEW WALLACE is what is known as
base ball crank. He says he wrote his life of
Harrison in thirty DAYS and went to every ball
game played in Indianapolis during that period.
You know that am Unfortunately fond Of base
ball. Cricket and lawn tennis are pleasing
gwnes, but there is no sport which affords so
much action as the national game. All the men
on the diamond are playing at once. Not a man
IL idle" Gen. Wallace must have derived
these ideas from very superior kind Of base
ball.
KING IA IA, the West African monarch de-
posed by the English, is having pleasant time
in captivity on the island of st. Vincent. He
has an allowance Of $4,000 year, a comfort
able residence in Kingstown and a handsome
carriage and pair. Kings being scarce in the
West Indies, ia ia is treated with every consd-
Grafton by the natives OF st. Vincent He is
also a frequent guest of the government house,
where he talks in ungrammatical but pictur-
esque English of his wars with Oko Bambo.
None of his wives are with him, and he recently
proposed to dusky West Indian, who raised a
rumpus over his proposal. She had no desire
to encourage polygamy.