The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-07
PERSONAL.

CHARLES WYNDHAM and his company were
| stopped on their way through st. Petersburg
| and acceded to request of the Car for a
| special performance of David GaIrlck" be-
fore the imperial family and court.
| SENATOR PALMER has lake on his MICHIGAN
| farm stocked with carps and wishes he hadn t
lie calls them the hog of the sea, because
| they wallow and burrow in the mud and keen
the water continually dirty. He has tried to
| seine them out, but cannot do so.
DETAILS regarding the life of John Harvard
| founder of Harvard College, Cambridge. Mass
| are very meagre Within a few weeks past
| however, there has been found at Backheath
| Eng, the record of the marriage between ,John
| Harvard and Anne Sadler, which was solemnized
| April 10, 1896.
IT has been generally reported that the Grown
Prince of Germany has suffered good deal of
annoyance from his inability to smoke his nine
The fact is that "Unser Fritz" has never been in
| the habit of using pipe except when hunting
or campaigning. Cigarettes and cigars have
taken the place of his pipe at most times.
THOMAS +. BAYARD is the only living man who
was baoted for in the ST. Louis convention i'm
1876 Tilden, Hendricks Allen, Hancock. and
Parker, all of whom had enthusiastic support-
ers Tor the nomination, are dead, and John
Kelly and John Morrssey, who were prominent
figures at the convention, have followed their
chiefs
CHARLES G. LELAND, famous twenty-five wears
ago for his translation of Hene and his Hans
Breitmann ballads is still living in London. and
is engaged in compiling dictionary of Ameri.
can phrases, sayings and slang He asks es-
pecially for the origin of Let her go Gal
lagher and any kind of eccentric expression
that is really American.
SENATOR SHERMAN is a most methodical and
orderly man. His study at all times is a model
OF neatneSS. The papers on the desk are such
as he is occupied with at the time and they are
arranged carefully. If a book is living on the
desk, 1t was not left from its place on the shelves
by accident or neglect There are no piles of
he
The rugs are straight and comfortable chairs of
avariety Of styles are placed conveniently about
the room.
DR.. ERAsTUs BLAND, recently arrived in New
York from Para, has in charge a patient who
suffers from lack of lime in the bones mi,
legs between the knee and the ankle can he
bent almost double, and his forearm is amaz-
ingly pliable between the wrist and the elbow.
Brazilian physician had been feeding the
man on oyster shells so long that bis teeth are
worn away He is wealthy and does NOT in.
tend to tie himself up in knots in dime museums
as one might suppose.
PRoF. S. D. MARTIN is firmly OF the opinion
that New York is sinking. He does not wish TO
create any Unnecessary alarm, but he can show
conclusively that the gneiss which forms the
rock of Manhattan Island has been subject TO
corroslon ever since the glacial period-some
several thousand centuries ago. The sea has
been gradually getting in its work and in the
course of loo years the advance will be per
ceptioe. 1t is only question of q, 900 years or
so when the Stock Exchange will have TO do
business in boats.
FALL RIVER, MASS, points proudly TO the fact
that the late Perry Davis the Pain Killer was
acarpenter in that city forty years ago or more.
When he found his panacea for all physical
ills he left his bench and took to peddling nedi.
cine in a basket His neighbors told him that
he was foolish 70 desert his trade in such a
manner, but Davis never doubted his ability TO
make n fortune with his ''pain-killer He went
To Providence, X. L. and became proprietor of
what was afterward the largest patent medicine
establishment in the world lie died some wears
ago leaving large estate to his heirs
MAYOR HEwrTrs daughters besides being
noted for their musical talent, have unusual
skill as hOrsewomen. one is married-Mrs
Green. Miss Steers another member of the
Ladies Amateur Orchestra lives on Park nv.
nue., New York, and goes to the Adirondacks
each summer, where she is famous for her love
OF fishing AMI boating. Mrs Schenck, another
member, lives in Brooklyn. The picture of Miss
DrcNel a daughter of the banker will long re-
main In the mind Of the audience at the I.yce1m
Theater, AS she sat at her harp and dalntily
toyed with the strings aud pedals of the ipstr1.
nent, seemingly having taken as many lessons
IN symmetry and grace as IN the art OF music
Apropos Of these much-talked-of young ladies'
was 1t a sister OF the Misses Rernson who
hummed the wedding march az she walked M
the aisle to be married. Music certainly runs
Ia the family.