The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-30
PERSONAL.

GEN. LEW WALLACE is said to have received
$50 900 in royalties from his ben Hur.' Ills
Fair Cod has also netted him handsomely.
NJ SHlFRIN. Jewish engraver, is to engrave
a number of rings in commemoration OF the
900fh anniversary of the introduction of chris
rianity into Russia.
IT is estimated that the American clergy have
given "Robert Elsmere" about 8 5000 worth OF
free advertising, which has benefited Mrs. Ware
to the extent Of $500 thus far.
SENATOR STANFORD OF California presented
each of the fourteen bows employed as pages IL,
new S. bill, with the wish that each boy mig ht
enjoy merry Christmas.
MIcAJAH HENLEY the man who invented roller
skates, lives IN Richmond, Ind He was poor
wood sawyer and ii took nearly his last dolar
TO pay for his patent, but the craze for skating
that spread over the country made him rich
REV Da. WILLIAM TAYLOR of New York, has IN
his study a chair which he uses instead of rid
ing horseback. IL is moved by working two
handles, and gives the rider, or the sitter.
about the same motion as that of a galloping
horse, only llttle mora violent. DR.. Taylor
finds tine exercise of this chair very beneficial
after a long pull at his desk
MISS LAURA JEAN LIBBEY, the handsome
brown. haired author of Miss Middleton
Lover" is stopping AZ the Arlington, in Wash
ington with her mother. IL Is said that Miss
I.ibbey is in Washington to settle the contro-
versy that has arisen over her latest novel, "a
Forbidden Marriage" She is much sought
after by the literary tuft hunters.
The RAILWAY FRIENDS and comrades of Henry
Monett. late general passenger agent of the
New York Central and hudson River railroad
have succeeded III raising al amount sufficient
to cancel the mortgage remaining unpaid on
MS home in Brooklyn at his death, and have
forwarded the mortgage cancelled and fully
paid 10 ms widow and children as a Christmas
Offering
BY THE DEATH OF Victorine Dernay. Gen, Bou-
hanger has lost bitter opponent. Dernay was
the most popular of the Partisan cafe singers
and was relentlessly opposed TO Bouianger and
his party. She eagerly sought for songs which
pleasing voice and manners enabled Der 10 hit
him many hard blow which a man could not
have delivered with impunity.
THE visit of Secretary OF War Endicott TO
New York city has revealed the fact that after
his retirement from pubic office he will resume
his position solicitor of the New England
Mutual Life Insurance Company, and will again
occupy his offices In the building Of that cor
poration. As Mr.. Endicott hurried from the
gaze OF the curious through the lobby OF the
Fifth Avenue hotel his clear-cut, intellectual
face which Is relieved by n white moustache,
bore no sign Of that lack of placdity which is
supposed 20 bctoken disappointment, especially
of the political kind. Among politicians he IL
known the dude Of the present cabinet. He
mas been an eyesore, however. to the positive
clement of MASSACHUSETTS, democracy, which has
an influential leader IN Gen. Patrick A. Collins
As a lawyer. Endicott ranks high In hrs profess
sion but 1t is 10 longer doubted that his selsc-
ton by President Cleveland did not met with
the approval OF the democratic masses The
Irish voters also resented the secretarys we'll
known pride in his away-back English lineage
a pride which swclled the more whsn the
Englishman (Chamherlain) carried away his
daughter.