The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-17
PERSONAL.

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Dr.. ASA GRAY left his copyrights and his
valuable collections of photographs to Harvard
University.
Mrs LELAND STANFORD has recently given a
fine memorial chapel to Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church, San Francisco.
The King of Holland is gradually surrender
ing to Il wasting disease, and the days of the
dissipated old monarch are numbered.
GuzNAN BIANco, President of Venezuela is a
fighter from the headwaters of Bitter Creek
He is said TO have killed twenty men in duels.
DIR. L. VI CoLr, JR., who imagines that he is
Jay Gould's partner aud worth S50,0000O0. has
been committed TO Flatbush Insane Asylum.
DR.. Colt recently lost $4,000 in Wall street.
Polk LAFFooN who has been two years in Con
gress from the Second Kentucky district with
out causing any special sensation, is said to
entertain an ambition TO succeed 10 Blackburn
in the Senate
American Red Cross Society, in addition TO her
other decorations, has Just been presented by
the Grand Duchess of Baden with an amethyst
in the shape Of a pansy.
SIR DONALD SMITHS wedding gift TO his
daughter who was married i'm Montreal Thurs-
day night, is said to have been check for
S2000.0O0. Smith is the millionaire pioneer of
the Hudson Bay Company.
Mr.. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, NJ. P the novelist and
historian. who is vice chairman of the Irish
party, has declined the invitation TO become
one of five Deputy Speakers under the new
rules on the ground that he is near-sighJed.
MATTHEW ARNOLD has been telling English
audiences that one of the things which dis
pleased him while doing the States was Ameri-
can town nomenclature, and "Griggsville"
"Briggsville' and the like set his teeth on edge
AAILIwELL PHILLIPS, the Shakespearean
Dblar, says that all the documents lately dis
covered at Stratford-on Avon were long ago
scrutinized by antiquareS, and that in the
lind no new Shakesperean fact could possibly
have been found.
QUEEN MARIE, of Belgium. was driving last
week, when she noticed a man violently beating
a dog, who was attempting TO draw heavily
loaded barrow. She stopped her carriage, and
after severely rebuking the man, ordered
gendarme to arrest him.
j. D. GHrsEIIN, of Norfolk, Va, we'll known
In the South a prominent publisher, is paying
Boston brief visit. Mr.. Ghiselin is an accom-
pliShed scholar having the acquaintance and
friendship of many OF the literary people of the
North and Is enjoying his stay in Massachusetts
Notwithstanding the cold weather.
GENERAL MANAGER STONE of the Chicago
Burlington and Quincy road, is about 81 years
old lie is a tireleSS worker and has climbed
steadily up in the service of the company from
the lowest round Of the ladder, His promotion
has been somewhat accelerated. however by
the assistance of an influential stakeholder of
the road into whose family he married.
THE Reno New Gdsette is warm in its con.
CALCULATIONS Ca Mrs. tauRtry on her good luck
IN striking silver mine i'm her well at Carson"
So far 50 good but there follows a sentence
that seems 10 be slightly adutsrated with scep.
ticisn. I'VE hope continues the Gazette
THAT she will keep all this silver for herself and
not inyite other people TO come in at so much a
share. 3"
THE late David Hunter STROLLER, best known
as Porte Cruyon," was venerable looking
man. With huge white whiskers aud moustache
covering all the lower part OF his face and quiet
almost dreamy. eyes looking out from under a
noble foenead, His disposition was genial. but
modest and retiring He fought through the
late wnr vi th distinction on the Union side
though most of his kinsmen were Confederates.
QUEEN CHRISTINA Of Spain is now 80. She
has pleasant smile. large eyes and soft, darl,
brown hair, which she wears high with rather
elaborate curls over her forehead. She eau be
either aitable or naughty, lust as the circum-
stances may require. She is kind and gentle to
those who come 10 her IN trouble, but cold and
hard 90 those who forget or neglect TO do their
duty toward her She is fond Of reading and
loves music.