The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-09
PERSONAL.

GEN. LEW WALLACE is paSsionately fond of
the gentle sport which Laak Walton made
immortal. He was especially active in the
recent hy-casting tournament of the fishermen
OF the state of Indiana.
As the story goes the mayor of Boston spends
his leisure time In hunting for somebody who
resembles his (the mayor 81 marble bust recently
chiselled out. He often gazes into looking
glass, but finds no comfort there.
IrIs SAID that Mr. Riggs, the Washington
banker, is blue-blooded, being related to Lord
O'Hagan and also to Sir George Errington,
whose playing fast and loose with the home
rule question created so much excitement.
The Mikado of Japan has issued an edict
against what he calls 1.-The perniciouS game of
base ball, which foreigners are attempting to
introduce into this country" His high night
ness is perhaps afraid of a Mike-Kellyish rival
inpOpularity.
Mrs CONTENT SWEET BURLINGTON is the name
of q lady % years old, who lives at Dorchester
Mass. When Miss Sweet was girl her school
mates reversed her surname, and called her
Sweet Content because of her hopeful, sunny
disposition, and that name has chung to her all
her life. The old lady sings duets with her
daughter, and Is noted for her girliSh vivaciJy
and cheerfulneSs,
CARDINAL GIBBONS resembles Henry Clay in
appearance. He is both handsome and intel
lectual, but is not so eloquent as was the great
Kenuckian. lie is mnch liked by President
Cleveland, and always finds warm welcome at
the White house A correspondent, speaking of
this friendship, says: 1.-The two men are slngu-
larry sympathetic in one way-their entire prac-
ticability. Neither one is an expert theorist,
writer or speaker, but when it comes TO prac
teal actions he is on his own ground"
THERE is no question of the popularity of Mrs
Gen. Sheridan in Washington. Everybody
speaks well of her and even certain snarling
faultfndng coterie of correspondents, who
pens into something less bitter than gall when
they write of her. She makes warmer and
more devoted friends than even Mrs Cleveland,
having faculty of bringing herself into close
and continued sympathy with those she likes,
which the position Of the Presidents wife
makes difficult or altogether impossible.
SPEAKING Of the man who is to drive Mr..
Blaine through Scotland a correspondent who
met him at Atlantic City recently tells us that
Andrew Carnegie is good humored and az
democracy triumphant" and bis contempt for
the house of lords, Lives like duke on his trav-
els. He has the handsomest rooms In the
house and pays for them with royal grace
grace" being purely hgurative and having no
reference whatever TO the quality that Carlisle
ascribed to the English aristocracy and which
Carnegie sneezes at.
DECIDEDLY, says THE London Star" the star
Of the Beringer family is in the ascendant. On
the very afternoon when, as the Real Little
Lord Fauntleroy," Miss Vera Beringer was
riYalling the exploits OF such other juvenile
celebrities as Josef Hoffman, Otto Hegner and
Minnie Terry, her father, the well-known
pianist and founder of the excellent Academy
FOR the Higher Development Of Panoforte
Playing" was giving an interesting concert at
st. James S hall Mr. Oscar Beringer is a tall,
spare man of "A, who stoops little and wears
spectacles. His hair, mustache and small
whiskers are all of the same light brown color.
Mr. Bernger was born in Baden, and studied at
Leipsc and Berlin. Both he and an elder
brother, Robert, first appeared as pianists at the
Crystal Palace concerts in 1851 Mrs. Beringer
is a fair woman Of. we are told, Scandinavian
extraction. She has literary tastes, and has
written more than one book, as for instance
her story of musical life, "A Left Handed Mar
rage" BY the success of their little daughters
Vera and Esne, the Beriugers have become con
nected with the stage as well as with music and
letters.