The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-08
PERSON AL.

THE King of Portugal will make tour of
Northern Europe for his health.
THE Prince of Wales is again undergoing
treatment to reduce his obesity.
De GRIMM, the New York cartoonist, who
claims TO be a Russian Baron, is said to be a son
of one of the Cars tailors.
Miss AGNES MCCLELLAN is the youngest
newspaper man" in Nebraska. She is but IS
and is local editor of the Seward Democrat
GEN. BRACES peculiar acidity of temper is
accounted for by friend, who says that in his
infancy the General was bottle-fed on chow
chow.
Mas. ScoTr-SIDDoNs says that this is not her
farewell tour in America. She will come here
again next season accompanied by her adopted
son. pianist.
GEORGE PEABODY, the phanthropist, once
sawed wood for his board, and when he II
years of age was working in country grocery
store in Massachusetts,.
Mrs. CLEvELAND's pleasant face now adorns
calendar, the idea Of Philadelphia who
conceals his identity until he learns what the
President thinks of his enterprise.
W. w. CRAPo. William F Draper, Gov. Ames
Charles j. Noyes and Congressman Whiting are
already in the field as candidates for the Repub-
lican nomination for Governor of Massachusetts,
Mrs. JOHN WANAMAKER has given to the Pres
byterian Hospital of Philadelphia building to
be used as free ward for children. 1t was
erected as a memorial TO her mother and cost
$4,000.
MISS MEUK MEYER, a grandniece of Anton
Rubinstein and a pupil of List, is the musical
prodigy of Vienna, Austria. She is not yet Is
years old, but has composed the music and writ
ten the libretto of an opera.
MISS MUNcK, who has Just been formally be-
trothed to Prince Oscar, of Sweden, is of Ger
man ancestry, and is related to the husband of
Carlotta Patti. She Is an accomplished mu-
stefan and writes clever poems
denies that he is going about preaching for the
money that's in it lie claims to be wort h
500, 900 all of which he has made in the last
four years in the real estate and stock business.
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard, has been
talking plainly TO the students of that college,
He says the tone of intercollegiate athletics
must be elevated if those who participate in
these contests are to retain the respect of the
public.
SENATOR GoRMAN's stag dinners are becom-
ing famous in Washington. The menu usually
consists OF what the host calls Maryland
dinner" Terrapin and canvas-back duck pre-
pared by noted Baltimore cook are leading
features of the banquet.
JOHN TrNroRErTo is the name of an Italian
who peddles lemons in Cincinnati, and who is
rapidly winning fame as pleeater. His great
est feat in this line consists in masticating twelve
dried-apple pies at one sitting He was very
much swollen with pride after accomplishing
this doughty deed
Europe this year. has not gained much u is
said, from his previous visits because of his
Oriental conceit and his lack of the powers to
take a broad and comprehensive view of things
coming under his observation. Bad omens
such as the fight of a crow or an ill-timed
sneeze, may cross his path and cause him to
cancel or postpone his arrangements.
MISS ROSE ELIzABErH CLEVELAND not so very
many years ago was a school teacher in the
pretty town of Muncy, Lycoming county, where
the winds come down from the mountains with
sharpened edges on them. Miss Cleveland was
not as popular with the fair Alviras of the
seminary as she has become in later times in
other places, and "for short" was called
Jake by the students and the young men who
took her out buggy riding moonlight nights.
AMONG the men who draw government sala.
ries AZ policemen and mechanics on the Indian
agencies Of the West are those who bear the fol.
lowing famous names. George Washington.
Grover Cleveland. Henry Clay, Edward Everett
Y. >. Grant and Matthew Arnold. Benjamin r.
Butler receives - a month for his services as
a policeman on a Nevada reservation Wash.
ing Irving Is paid $3.50 for working a govern.
Ipent farm IN washington Territory, while
schuyler C0lfax obtains 800 year Us 4 carpen-
ter IN the same locality.