The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-06
PERSONA.

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN has nine orchid houses
joined together and to the drawing room and
lighted with electricity. His stock of orchids is
said to be worth $4,000
Mrs. DREW, the dau yhter of Mrs. Gladstone,
is an efficient private secretary and opens every
letter OF the daily eighty which on an average
are delivered at Hawarden
NINE. BERNHARpr says there is one person
with whom she has been on terms of intimacy
for many years without quarrel, and that is
her dressmaker. Sarah's dressmaker must be
an angel.
ARTIST WHISTLER. the eccentric American
who is one of London's celebrities, is painting
a horrible picture of one of the Whitecnapei
victims as her mutiated body appeared when
it was discovered.
The Duke of Sutherland is the greatest land
owner in Great Britain where his possessions
embrace 1855, 545 acres He also owns large
tracts of lands in this country, aggregating, il
is said, 42j,O00 acres.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, in writing Of the much
talked of French novelist. says; Though will
not venture to assert that NJ. lola has any other
than good purpose in writing his stories, l
think he writes them as he does because his pc
culiar temperament and tastes incline him to
that method rather than to any other. ! think
lie is man who has no reverence for purity
or cleanliness
Mr.. ALMA-TADEMA has built him a new and
beautiful house in London. His studio is deco
rated with silver and hung with heavy tapestry.
Mrs. Tadema S studio is fitted with brass work
and paneled with oak. Her pictures of six
teenth century life are painted here. Marble
and stone adorns all the house A passage Gov
cred with glass and tioored with intricate and
delicate tile WORK connects the outer gate with
the princely looking hall.
TIE Donoghue family of Newburg N Y, are
great skaters. Joe, i" who IS only II years old,
will represent the e-skimmng ability of the
United states in Europe this winter. "Timo-
thy and Jim" will strive for prizes in this
n N n yAyh n nylS
once champion skater of the world and noted
oarsman. Joe" will skate this season in
England, Norway and other European coun-
tries. He expects to have an ice time.
Miss DRExEL of New York daughter of the
late j. w. Drexel is one of the few Young Ia
dies WHO have chosen the harp as the medium
for the display OF their musical ability. She
plays this instrument in the Ladies' orchestra.
Miss Maud Morgan, daughter OF the organist,
IL also harpist, and very clever one at that.
Miss Doremus, daughter of the well known
chemist, plays the banjo with skill, while Mayor
Hewtts daughters are experts with the violin.
A CORRESPONDENT who has just visited Castle
Hill, Va, the home of Amelie Rives- Chanler,
says: "A stream OF visitors from all parts OF
the Union and from Europe fill the house from
year IS end to years end, among them of late
eager editors OF magazines and publishers of
books, all anxious TO win the favor OF the brill
liant young authoress, all trying to outbid each
other for the noxt poem-novel that is TO be
evolved out OF the large store OF work already
accomplished"
THE PRINCESS OF WALES introduced the high
collar, which has had such long popularity,
because scrofulous affection had marred her
long. slim throat, and now. because she is sub
1ect to neuralgia and must protect her head and
shoulders, every lady who Is anybody must APP
pear this coming winter in fur lined hoods, with
long capes. Her eldest son, the British heir APP
parent, always wears tall collars, and is trying
to make stocks fashionable because he has in
herited certain ugly marks on his neck