The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-28
PERSONAL.

EMPEROR FREDERICK will be able TO leave his
widow iointure of from Sl50.OOO to $500 900 a
year, with the use of a residence in Berlin and
country seat.
THE late Chief Justice Waite and Judge Field
of the United States Supreme Court were born
within twenty miles of each other in Connect
cut, in the same month Of the same year.
Mr.. HosrErTER, the patent medicine manu-
facturer of Pttsburg, Pa, carries $50 600
life insurance. He has been trying to make the
amount Sl,OOO,0OO, but so far without success.
Miss HELEN BLANCHARD, now a resident of
Philadelphia is a Maine girl, who has made a
fortune through the invention of the simple
over and-oYer" attachment for sewing ma
chimes.
MATTHEW ARNOLD drew a pension from the
British Civil List. The pension lapsed at his
DEATH but it is understood that Queen Victoria
will be asked to continue the pension to Mr.
Arnold'S widow.
CHAuNcEY DEPEw has coined a phrase which
will probably have run He speaks of certain
financial transactions of an uncertain character
as Kathleen Mavouneen loans" because lit
may be for years and it may be forever
Roscoe CoNKLING was great lover Of poetry.
and could repeat many verses from memory
not fragmentary lines or stanzas, but whole
epics, page by page. His favorte poems we're
'Lalla Rookh" and THE Lady of the Lake"
w. A J. SPARKS ex Land Commissioner tells
a St Louis reporter that while he would CON
slider the nomination for Governor of Illinois
great honor, he will not make any canvass for
it or resort to any electioneerinS devices to
secure IL.
Col. NICHOLAS SMITH, the Kentucky profess
sional beauty who married one of Horace Gree
ley daughters, is an extremely modest man.
Recently while in New York a lady SarcaStcally
said to him: "Oh, Col. Smith, how much YOU
look like George Washington " And the Gle
giant Colonel gravey responded: " Madam,
Washington was good and great man and de
serves the compliment"
Mrs. CLEVELAND. it is to be feared is becom-
ing giddy. One of the court chronicers records
at recent dinner party when the ladies retired
TO the drawing room, leaving the men h. their
cigars and politics, they formed a circle around
Mrs. Cleveland, and one said: Now we shall
have short stories, the aw fullest ones we can
think Of " and the Lady of the White House
relaxed her dinner dignity and threw back her
pretty head, laughed. and had a good time.
THE latest thing in the way of novelties at
Paris is the introduction of Boulauger figure
into the cotillon or german. The gentlemen all
turn up the collars OF their coats don blue pop-
giles, aud pass down the ballroom with a slight
limp, thus mimcking the Generals disguise
when be visited Paris in defiance of the orders
OF tho Minister of War As soon us the gentle
men reach the other end OF the ballroom the
ladies choose their brave General, " and waltz
round the room with the counterfeit cripples
MEXICO BILL, of the Rio Graude," was an
entry recently made on the register OF a Cleye-
land % hotel The writer was Byron De Win
curly hair and an air Of confident ease and
grace lie is graduate of Heidelberg L niyer
sity, and speaks both German and French. He
is 4 native OF Montana and after leaving Ger-
many became United States scout under Gen
Custer He has accumulated considerable
wealth IN Montana, and is ia the East on a
pleasure tour lie is good representative of
one Of the highest types OF men i'm the world
the educated and successful frontiersmau.
RAJou, the celebrated French etcher bas re-.
Gently furnished a study Of Abraham Lincoln
which has rcce we'd the written approval of his
sou Robert. II was made from the plaster east
taken Of Mr.. Lincoln In 1858, and is of exquisite
workmanship, although not so perfect a likeness
as IL might have been II the artist had known
his subject Mr. Lincon's eyes, which were
hazel, appear to be black in the etching Nj
Ra1ou has etched head Of Darwin, and also
one of Henry Ward Beecher. He represents the
latter seated in an armchair in an easy attitude.
The artist Is "A resident of Paris. but has paid
two visits TO this country, the second one having
been made during the past winter.