The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-09
PERSONAL.

| PERHAPS with vie - 20 save his voice Mr.
| Gladstone has quite recently acquired habit
| of speaking rapidly -Tery different from the
| measured tones in which he used to idress an
| audience.
| THE house in London-No IS Piccad illv Ter
race-whers Byron pas 'ed the wretcned period
of his married life. where Ada was born and
where be wrote some Of his earlier poems, is
| now being altered, ald will take ON an entirely
| changed appearance.
| JoHH Mc;'uNE is the biggest oil producer in
| America. Whsn h. was 20 years old he landed
| at Castle Garden from Ireland with less than SIS
| in his pocket. He has SlOOO0,000 now, all made
| out of opportunities he saw and grasped ia
| Pennsylvania petroleum fields.
THE mourntul intiulation comes from Paris
| that N, de Brazza THINKS that Mr.. Stanley is
wanting in prudence in his eXplura ions. and
| that he VIII NOT succeed in his present enter
PRISE lie condeScends to say, however that
| hi, opinion OF Mr.. Stanley is a very high one
WHILE Harriet Beecher Stowe has enough of
| this words goods 20 support her comfortably,
she has nothing like the fortune she might have
had il she had not sold her copyright OF Uncle
Toms Cabin for a solS. Not having reserved
the right of dramatlEatiOn, the loly success of
the story on the stage has brou ;ht her nothing
". D. HOARD. whom the Wisconsin repub-
Leans have nominated for governor, is raw
boned farmer "A veteran OF the late war, and a
great story-teller. lie has never held political
Office, but for years he president OF the
Northwestern Dliryman's Association. II IS
said that he owes his nomination more to
Horace Rublee, editor of the Milwaukee Sen
tptei, than to any one else.
PRINCESS CLEMENTINE, mother of the Prince
of Belgium, is as Old as Queen Victoria, She
looks fresh as il mature meant her TO live to
100 Her deafness is not to be regarded as one
of deaths warnings, she having suffered for a
long course of years from this intlrmity. which
is common to so many personages of royal
rau9. When she, the Prince dc Joinville the
Due de Penthieve, his son; the Queen Of Den
mark aud the Princess of Wales are together,
all the conversation is carried on by long ear
tubes One hight fancy the illustrious party
playing at game of mutual telephony
Mr.. SMALIEY's last Tribune chat from Lon
don about famous takers and their differences
seems to hint in few brief words at Dlsraeli's
success. He delivered no Grafton, poured out
no flood of knowledge was epigrammatic SEN
tentious, brief. He was brilliant when he chose,
changed with the changing times, a vigilant OBJ
server " social fashions, always, as Gambetta
said Of himself, a man of his own time" This
Is in market contrast TO what the same au-
thority has to say of Gladstone and others One
can see Disraeli the diplomat and guess at the
secret of his success. Essentially a cOurtier, a
man of his time. growing more SO as he Sraw
Older. But the grand old man, bein for ali
time. can afford to talk and forget he is talking
ia aglning that others, not himself, are the elo
quent ones.
MRs. j. ELLEN FOSTER OF Iowa, temperance
lecturer and chairman OF the "Woman's
National Republican Committee" is a Boston
woman by birth and education. She had not
tho remotest idea of ever becoming a public
lecturer when she began quietly to talk temper.
ance TO her friends and neighbors out in Iowa
some years ago. As speaker she is original
pleasing and logical. She Is now probably on
the shady side OF A. She is a handsome woman
after the intellectual pattern. Her husband, e.
G. Foster is the assistant secretary of the tariff
league. The ladies associated with Mrs Fos-
ter on the national republican committee are
Mrs Thomas W. Chase Of Rhode Island Mrs
Schuyler Colfax and Mrs Henry S. Lane of In.
diana, Mrs II. B. Spellman of New York, and
Mrs. II. X. Carroll OF New Jersey