The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-11
PERSONAL.

MARION HARLAND says that the coming won
an viii have her own bank account. Bachelors
would like to know at what time she is due
here.
Now it is asserted that Prince Ferdinand Of
Bulgaria wants to become a king. 1t would
seem as though his head must be uneasy enough
now, without assuming a crown.
MINISTER GENNADIUs who came to this conn
try in the interest of Greek currants, is de-
lighted with the currants of American life as he
finds them in Washington society.
ANGEL is the name of the referee who will
officate at the sullivan Mitchell prize fight
Mayor Hewitt must approve of pugiliStic en-
counter over which an Angel presides.
If SARDou really took the main situations in
Ia Tosca" from Maurice Barrymore's Mad
iezda" there is every reason for asserting that
Barrymore ought to be ashamed of himself
C. H. ANDREWS, who has just retired from the
head of the Boston Herald, was a worker yeho
stuck closely to his desk. He is said not to have
had a vacation of more than two weeks in
thirty-five years.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has returned to his
beloved England and was present at an opera
performance in Liverpool the other night when
Nine. RoZe was given a tiara of diamonds bv
citizens of that city rs birthday gift.
PROF CLEVELAND Able is now in charge of
the weather predictions which emanate from
the Washington Bureau. His predictions are
verified SO constantly that they speak of MIN
n.
J. T. CAMPBELL. United States Consul at
Auckland, New Zealand, says in his latest re-
port to the State Department that S12OOO 0OO
have been expended in New Zealand in the last
eight years in the effort to overcome the rabbit
plague.
MRS f. VAN KIRK, of Pittsburg, and Miss
Frances Willard have been chosen lay delegates
to the General Methodist Conference to be held
in New York in May-the first instance in the
history of the church in which women have been
so selected
FOLLOWING hard upon the assertion that John
Ruskin can find no poetry written by an Amer
lean comes the news that Nctorien Sardou con.
siders Shakespeare'S Hamlet" idiotic "All
Gaul is divided into three parts, " and Sardou is
one Of them.
VALENTINE WINTER, banker of Dayton, O..
at a family dinner last weelddistributed $500 900
of his estate among six children and the heirs of
two Others. He had previously given them
100000 This is not the Winter of Discomfort
among the lucky recipients
john W. DUBosE, of Birmingham. Ala. will
soon publish life of William l.. Yancey i'm
which he promises to tell the true story Of the
encounter in the Confederate Senate between
Nancey and lob Toombs in which Toombs
struck Yancey with heavy inkstand. and from
the effects of which he never recovered
JEHu BAKER, Of Illinois, once thought he
would be selected as the successor of the late
Gen. Logan in the state Legislature. and when
he found that MIR. Farwell mad been chosen he
made speech with SO many rs in il that the
printer who put it in type was obliged 10 sub
stitute EN- qu0ds for the personal pronoun be.
fore 1000 ems had been set. Mr.. Baker is v-ry
impressive and can frown in a most terrifying
manner
EX-SELEcT COUNCILMAN JoHN RuHL, Of Phila.
delphia. who disappeared from his home in that
city on Feb. ~, and who is supposed to have
gone TO South America to avoid his creditors
was in New York aud Brooklyn on Monday He
met Philadelphian In the latter city and
avoided him Mr, Ruhl was one of the most en-
ergetc members of the Board of Guardians of
the Poor IN the Quaker City, and was noted for
his fidelity to the citY's interests II is thought
that his liabilities viii approximate $50 900. He
was one Of the stitfest poker players within
sound OF the state House bell, and that's saying
a good deal, because the ringing of the bell can
be heard In the Fourth ward.