The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-27
PERSONAL.

| SENATOR HIsooCK is said to read every new
| American novel as soon as published.
LITTLE 21S-year old daughter of Jules Levy.
| the cornetist, is developing remarkable musical
| talent.
CAPT. ScHLEY and Gen. Greeley, the Arctic
heroes, have purchased neighboring lots for
summer homes at Mount Desert
THE late Rev. James Freeman Clarke of Bos-
| ton was for many years in the habit of writing
| his sermons before breakfast Sunday morning.
QUEEN VICTORIA is very fond of straw hats
She recently had a photograph taken of herself
| as she sat at breakfast surrounded by her
| family. On her head was a most remarkable
straw hat, the most striking object of the pict-
urc.
KING KALAKAUA, the versatile monarch of the
| Sandwich islands, has written learned treatise
| on the diametrcal physiognomy of the earth
| The article is based on observations of the vol
| canic phenomena for which the Hawaiian group
| is noted.
W. II. SMITH, the leader of the house Of com
mons, receives annually large sum as royalty
| for the use of his name by the news company
with which he was formerly connected. Yet
! there are a great many Smiths who receive no
perquistes for the use of their names, often I'M
| justly assumed.
MISS ARTIE Copy, Buffalo Bills daughter sets
the style at North Platte, Heb, now that she
has returned from her trip to Europe. She had
the disappointment of not being presented ct
court, but was the recipient of many other so
cial honors which are.said not in the least to
have turned her head.
PRINCE RUPERT, heir presumptive to the
throne of Bavaria, has been ordered to a remote
town in mad King otho's dominions, with in
structions to report for duty subaltern in an
artillery regiment. He is in disgrace with the
Regent for having run off for a weeks spree in
Paris without asking leave.
JAY GOULD has in his conservatory
at Irvington not fewer than 400 varieties
of hAg A.a
vast collection Of smaller plants. The
rose-house, which is perhaps the most delight
tul part of the conservatory, is filed with the
finest summer and winter roses to be found in
the United States
THE Duke of Edinburgh, who was recently
poisoned by bad water at Gibraltar, has long
had passion for quack medicine. He is some
thing of hypochrondriac and is always dosing
himself with some patent nostrum. IL must
have been water OF a very powerful kind which
was able to affect a system which has been so
thoroughly saturated with all kinds OF strange
mixtures.
WESLEY O'DAy, a 20 year-old farm hand gof
Nevada, Me-, has fallen heir 70 nearly 81, 200, 900
He has gone 10 Albany, n. Y, TO join his uncle
brother and sister there, who together with
him fall heir TO S8,000,000 O'Day has been in
extreme poverty for the last eight years, having
run away from home when ~ years of age. He
received authentic information before leaving
that the apportionment had been made, and
his share amounts to 81, 868,o00.
A FEW days ago a discussion was going on In
the presence of Mrs. Langtry with reference TO
the costumes used by Mrs. James Brown Potter
in the role Of Pauline" Somebody asserted
that, while the costumes were fine, Mrs Potter
didnot wear them to advantage. That is So"
remarked the Jersey Lily. Mrs Potter leaves
unbuttoned the button which should DO fas-
tened and buttons that which should be left UNI
buttoned." This epigrammatic statement met
with instant applause. The late Emperor
William OF Germany once said that II Is the
button left unbuttoned which ruins an army.