The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-11
PERSONAL.

OSCAR WILDE has in the press a volume of
five fairy tales.
Mrs. HICKs-LoRD, who one of Mgr
Capel's great friends, gives large sums of
money to Catholic charities.
LADY COLIN CAMPBELL has been offered S. 900
for two lectures in America which, on the
advice of Matthew Arnold, she has declined.
The PRINCESS OF WALES writing to Mrs
Mackay to thank her for silver wedding gift
expressed her deep qualification at the Eek
qulSlte mirror
EMPEROR Dom PEDRO of Brazil, who is now in
Florence, has had several lone chats with Queen
Victoria. They are both reading George
Ehot's novel 'Romola."
NJ GOBLET the new French Minister of For
eign Affairs has hot temper. Everyone has
heard of tempest i'll teapot, but an outbreak
of passion in u Goblet is something new.
EMPEROR Francis JOSEPH of Austria who
has been great drinker of beer for the last ten
years, has recently received q present OF 1000
dozen of various bottled ales from an English
brewing company.
NJ. LEcoNrE DE Isle, the French poet, says
that Shakespeare never wrote a play. He
was" says de Lisle, IAN uneducated and uncul
tivated butcher boy, who died young, with a
great weakness for the bottle.
SENATOR WORTH of New York lately gave ut.
terance to two sayings in debate that should
make him famous. One of them is Il never
fear TO shirk my duty" aud the other is Il have
no principles 10 hinder my actlOn.
QUEEN VICTORIA has shown desire TO re-
ceve Queen Natalie, of Servia, who is also
staying at at Florence, and in the vicinity of
her English Majestys villa The Servian
Queen is considered to be or color by her royal
sisters.
HENRY SHAW, the venerable st. Louis philau-
thropist who gave the Missouri Botanical Gar
den and Tower Grove Park to the public, has
donated nine acres of ground near tne Park to
Washington University for base ball and other
athletic sports.
C. p HUNTINGTON has been whining to the
San Francisco repo ters that he can't get jus
tice'' from Congress this year, because Con
gressmeu are all looking for reelection. II is
generally considered that Justice, is the thing
most TO be feared 10y Mr.. Huntington.
ALBERT WOLFF says in lie Figaro: Army
Baden. one evening the King was visiting the
tables when he noticed a SuOurdinate in civilian
dress trying his luck at trenteet-q uarante. He
bad placed to or three louis on the table and had
won nice little sum, when lie saw the King
opposite He turned pale, trembled, and hest
tated to take possession of his money. There
upon King William approached and whispered
IN his ear: Don't be afraid. Take in your
money, hut don't do 1t again.
TEN YEARS Ago." says well-known New
York lawyer, Luther X. Marsh was as impress
svc in appearance and as highly honored 10y
his assoc ates and the public generally AS any
lawyer III New York AT That time he was a
very handsome man. his loosely brushed, gray
ish brown hair Gaping broad, smooth fore
head, under which pair ot powerful, discrimi-
mating eyes shone His rather long aud SLIGHTLY
aquiline nose gave his face n judicial look,
framed as IL was by neatly trimmed gray side
whiskers, aud his hrTn mouth looked the very
foe of humhugs of all kinds. His dress was
conspcuously neat and his whole bearing that
of a man the peer of any. don't mean TO say
he isn't honored by his associates now, but his
brethren at the bar, who still respect his abili-
ties, are unusually eager to see HIM clear of the
shameful Diss Debar mposture which has so
unaccountably overcome him."