The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-26
= PERSONAL.

Mr.. WALTER BEsANT is a small, animated,
bright-eyed and baek@haired man, fond of the
theatre, claret and pipe.
Gov FoRAKRR may console himself with the
thought that he did not get the snubbing at
Chicago that he deserves.
Mas. MAcKAs Rcsntiy presented her daugh-
ter, Princess 'EOlopHas with pair of jeweled
bracelets valued atSlSo09.
DIR. MACK NaiE isssaid. to be exhausted from
his constant attendance upon the Emperor
Frederick, and will spend two weeks in Norway
before returning to London.
MISS carARLorrs SpAIpNG school teacher.
has sued a New York chiropodist for Sp5 900
damages-to her affections? No. to her pet toe
The chiropodlst ruined the toe in his mad efforts
TO uproot corn.
Mrs. DONALD CRAWFORD, whose name was
connected with the famous Dixie scandal has
become very devout of late. She has joined the
Wesleyans in London, and is an enthusiastic
adherent of the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes.
NJ DE BLowITz, the eccentric Paris CORE
spondent of the London Times, is inclined to
think that the new French rifle is a wonderful
weapon. He says that it is both noiseless and
smokeless and sends bullet with perfect ac-
curacy distance OF four miles.
THE sister of Keats, the poet, is living in
Madrid, Spain, and is in good health. She is
employed In an attempt to obtain from the
English court of chancery fortune which be-
longed TO her grandfather. She is evidently
more optimistic and trusting than her famous
brother.
AT the Bologna exhibition is to be found the
skull of Donizetti, the composer. To It Is at
tached printed statement to the effect that
IL was rescued from the house of a pork-packer
of Bergamo, whose children had used II as a
money box. II is surely curious and sug-
gestive fact that within that skull, where once
immortal melodies delighted the mind of genius,
the vulger clink of a bridesmaids gold should
for so long a time have Knocked that fleeting
phantom men call fame.
SHERIDAN was in my class ut West Point"
said Gen. NJ. s. Hascall. of Indiana the other
day land he was by all means the oldest MEM
Der Of il. | remember his appearance and the
impression he formed his arrival He was
one of the most peculiarly built boys / ever
saw. His chest was very large and fun, his legs
short and small and his arms so phenomenally
long that his hands reached far below his knees
as he walked. His physical peculjarities were
so marked before he finally and fully developed
that he came very near being rejected by the
examining board on that account. He was
a dull cadet In his studies, too, and
had any one predicted that Sheridan
would become the most distinguished man Of
the class and OF the greatest military leaders
of the country, he would have been laughed out
Of the academy Sheridan was graduated a
year behind us, owing TO q rather peculiar rea-
son. On one occasion the officer OF the day was
Capt. Terrell, who was at the time figuring for
promotion, and was therefore DESTROYS Of curry
ing favor with the officers. Sheridan happened
to be late at reveille, and Terrell reported him,
resulting in his being reprmanded Sheridan
did not lack spirit, and the next day he caught
Terrell of OF duty, aud proceeded to resent
what he considered an unwarranted indignity
by pummeling him in the most approved fash
ion. don't think that the result of the en-
counter was entirely satisfactory TO Philip, but
he had got in his work, and done the best he
could, anyway. For this offense Sheridan was
suspended tor year, and left West Point. At
the expiration Of his term Of suspension, how.
ever lac returned aud was graduated"