The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-27
PERSONAL.

TIE most appropriate spot in Scotland for
James G. Blaine just at the present time is
Wiltrun.
THE discovery has been made that Queen Vic
| toria uses when travelling trunks which are old
fashioned, shabby and unworthy of her exalted
| position.
REV. DR.. EDWARD BRAIsLIN, of the Washing
| ton Avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn. will sal
| for England next week as a delegate to the
| great missionary convention.
BoULANGER was lately accused of wearing q
| wig, whereupon a correspondent called upon
| him, and he submitted to having his hair pulled
| to show that the story was SANDER
THE officers of the Bordeaux garrison lately
gave Nine. Carnot handsome fan, and the
| President has sent to them in return three
! splendid bronze groups which cost $1,000.
KING KAIAKAUA, of the Sandwich Islands. has
| issued proclamation calling for more frequent
sessions OF the Hawaiian Legislature Kalakaua
| still has trace in his nature OF barbarlc love
| for quarrels
ACCORDING to lie Figaro, when Queen Vic.
| toria was at Charlottenberg she asked her
| daughter what had become of the bath chair
which she sent her in 1859. With smile the
! Empress replied: THE Emperor has been
using it constantly ever since he fell ill.,
| CALVIN s. BRIcE the wealthy railroad specu-
| lator who lives in New York, but who is going
| to the st Louis convention as al delegate at
large from Ohio, has agreed TO take the entire
| ONO uele9aJlOu TO nj. LOUIS Ill Bulman cars
free Of charge The cry of Brce and Doodle
has already been raised.
MINISTER MCLANE, who is now in Washington
at the home Of his brother-iu-law, Gen Joseph
f. Johnston, is looking remarkably well. He
has gained in flesh and says he never felt better
in his life. He does not believe in another
Franco German war, but says that no one
should be so bold as to predict the maintenance
of peace in Europe.
WILLIE X. VANDERBILT Is seen on Wall street
New York occasionally nowadays and the
brokers eye him with the looks of a wolf gazing
at fat, sleek lamb. Young Vanderbilt has had
his eye teeth cut, though, and he is not likely to
plunge again into speculation TO any great ex-
tent bis first, and what proved TO be his last
venture into Wall stree, cost him S2,0OO,OO0.
PRoF. TRENT of Johns Hopkins University,
lecturlng TO Baltimore workingmen, has been
impresslng the fact that there is nothing new
under the sun. There were tenement houses,
he says, in ancient Athens. with many families
market and in the olive oil industry then, ma
nipulated just as are Wall street corners now;
and there were slave insurance offices, where
the old Greek, for about 81 year, could he in
sured against his slaves running away.
Col Copy, known to fame as Buffalo Bill"
is well up in Biblical knowledge. To Mrs.
Jester, his sister, of Leavenworth, Kan, he
autographed as follows on his recent arrival in
New York: Read second episte of st. john
twelfth verse. Your brother Turning to the
verse indicated, Mrs. Jester read the following
words: Having many things 10 write unto you
| would not write with paper aud ink; but
trust to come unto you and speak face TO face,
that our joy may be full"
Mrs. MARIA e BEAsLEY, of Philadelphia, has
made fortune from the most remarkable in
Vention which the mind OF woman ever con-
cclved. In 1884 Mrs. Beasloy took out a patent
for machine for the construction of barrels.
Up to that time barrels had been made almost
altogether by hand The machine is worked by
three men, and turns out more than 800 COM
peted barrels n day. Mrs. Beasey was born in
North Carolina Of wealthy parents. She pos
sesses wonderful mechanical genius Her first
invention was n machine for hopping barrels
II Will hoop 800 barrels a day, and is used by
the Standard oil Company.