The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-22
PERSONAL.

THE Princess of Wales and her associates are
setting the fashion of wearing as much jewelry
as possible,
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is said to be medi-
tating q journey TO England to call on the En-
press Of India this summer
THE Baroness Burdett- Coutts has started a
new cab company in London, to run four
wheelerS of an improved type.
LEOPOLD SPIELMAN is the latest musical phe-
nomenou discovered in Vienna. He is only )
years old and is having great run.
SINCE his interview with Mr.. Parnell. Mr..
Gladstone has expressed himself with much ad-
mratiou for the Irish leaders, personal qualities
and political sagacity.
CARL SCHuRz will spend the summer in Ger
many, where he intends to revise his memoirs.
He is also gathering material for a compre-
hensive history OF our late civil war.
CoMMoDoRE KITTsoN, of st. Paul who died
last week left an estate estimated by himself
at St0O0OO0. Each Of his eleven children is
given SlOOOOO AT me start and the remainder is
to remain undivided until the youngest son be-
comes of age, which will be in 1896.
Edmund YATES describes Queen Natalie of
Scrva as decidedly of the fine woman order;
tall, broad and massive, with large features and
black eyebrows and eyes, and black hair, which
she wears down her back as the sayin' is as
poor Sketchley used TO say, like horses tail -
A GRANDDAUGHTER of Charles Dickens is now
engaged in promising enterprise. She has
engaged Il staff of young ladies, who, with her
self, devote themselves TO copying with the
typewriter. They have attained great pro
ficiency in the art and work more neatly than
most amateur typewrters. They are getting
plenty Of custom, and are especially clever in
correctly deciphering and rendering badly writ
ten manuscripts.
KING OSCAR Of Sweden has recently been stay
ing at Rome, and while there he avaied him
self of the opportunity TO pay his respects to
the Pope. The blunt old sailor, however. con-
sderably Scanaalizad the courtierS at the Nati-
can by refusing TO kiss the hand which Leo
XIII. extended for the purpose Instead Of this
he casped the astonished Pontif in both arms
and imprinted sOnorous osculatory salutaton
on each OF the holy fathers cheeks
II AM CALLED" says Mr.. Edgerton, the Civil
Service Commissioner, "the youngest old mau
ht Washington. When my appointment as
Civil Service Commissioner became known to
the newspaper men, and my age had been
ascertaned, they expected to see in me a pic
ture Of decayed senlty. I believe they will
admit that their advanced publications Of the
new appolntee were not justified. The most
Juvenile part of me is not my head, but my
legs. | believe that could dance a jig as well
rs ! could sixty years ago. A year or two since
called on Judge Thurman, at his Ohio home
Thurman ana | were fellow Represe natives
from Ohio districts forty years ago He is bent
with age, and is physically SO infirm that his
party has long since lost the benefit of his
active aud powerful leadership. He wanted TO
know my recipe for perpetual youth. ! don't
know Just how IL happened, but ! have been
called Judge Edgerton ever since | removed to
Washington. Now, the fact of the matter is
that was never Judge even lawyer, and
the only acquaintance 1 have with law books
was gained In the course of general reading