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

EDWARD BURGESS, the yacht designer. has
been made an NJ. A. by Harvard II was only a
short time ago that his wife made him a PA.
THOMAS A. EDISON. the inventor, will send to
each crowned head of Europe a perfected pho
nOgraph. Such a present will speak for itself
DIR. J. LELAND MILLER OF Sheffield, Mass, has
given $4,000 TO Williams college to found pro
censorship Of American history literature and
CloquenCe, 1t will be the first professorship Of
its kind in the country
GIN w. T. SHERMAN was given a great oya
ton at the Yale commencement. When he re-
marked in a speech that he so loved Yale that
he had sent his only two beloved sons there
the assembled collegians cheered with wild en-
thuslasm.
THE Pullman family will hold reunion in
August on Pullman island, one of the Thousand
islands of the ST. Lawrence. Sir George NJ
Pullman's mother viii celebrate her eightieth
birthday in that month Her famous son will
present her on her birthday a deed of Pullman
island, on which he has erected a beautiful
house for her occupancy
QUEEN VICTORIA has accepted from the cor
poration Of Lloyds a gun that formed part Of
the armament of the ship Lutine, which was
wrecked Off the coast of Holland in 1899 The
gun, which was recovered in 1886, has been
mounted opposite an embrasure commanding
the Deans Garden, and the scare about the de-
fenselesS condition of London is perceptibly
diminishing.
The Hull Dd,ly NcicS says: Marshall p
Wilder, the American hlmorist, Is again in Lon
don, and will doubtless soon be adding to his
popularity ny the exercise Of his remarkable
initiative ability. Thought you wouldn't know
me- remarked the little man, when we gave
him cordial greeting And whyg we asked
and the reply was, Because have changed nv
walk This it appears, is the latest thing in
American humOr."
THERE is living at Merton. in Surrey. SAYS the
London Globe, man named Hudson. who knew
Lord Nelson. His wife was q daughter of
Nelson's gardener, Crib, and he himself as a
boy was employe about the gardens of Sir
William and Lady Hamilton. and in running on
messages and fetching parcels from the stage
wagon He well recollects seeing Nelson fishing
in the river Wandle, near the old Abbey mill
and saunterlng with Sir William and his wife
about the pretty grounds which were inter.
secte by canal, which Nelson called 1.-THE
Nile" and which at that time extended on both
sides Of the nigh road. Hudson witnessed the
final depart ire of Lord Nelson from the
house on Sept 10, 1905, just a month before his
death at Trafalgar and on that occasion shut
the door of the post-chaise in which he left re-
ceving from him a cordial grip of the hand,
with word OF counsel; BE a good boy until
come back again" But he never came back "
says old Hudson, land | don't think he ever
will" He still points out, at the bottom of his
lit e garden, the rivulet which used TO feed
1.-THE Nile, though II now flows in a diminished
stream, and contains not q single mnnow
Hudson says the cottage in which he lives, and
its neighbor also, form a pair built by order OF
Lord Nelson for his coachman and his gardener,
so thoroughly had community of goods been
established between him and his host and
hoste $; and he points with pr .e to the fact
that the mulberry tree ON bis grass plot was
planted there by the order Of Lord Nelson him.
SELF.