The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-28
PERSONAL.

THE QUEEN REGENT of Spain has addressed a
letter to Mrs. Cleveland asking her for her
photograph
SENATOR INGALLS, will re-write his novel, the
manuscript of which was recently burned with
his house at Atchlsop.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL is frequently seen
at present in Rotten Row Hyde Park. London
mounted on big bay horse and wrapped in an
enormous ulster oTercoat.
IL the February number of the North 4mer-
can RerIe,r is an able and interesting article on
serpent Myths from the pen of Narina Anne
Da, Is, daughter of Jefferson Davis.
QrElN VICTORIA disli&es the electric light
and refuses to have it in her palaces. Sine has at
length permitted one of her yachts to be fitted
with electric lamps, except her saloon and
sleeping cabin.
MINISTER PAX, of Co-ea, has received cable
message from saoul which cost S401 &c, and re-
turned answer al an expense of over $500
The cable tariff between Saoul and Washington
is So 43 a word
Miss BRANDON. the novelist. whose real name
is Mrs. John Maxwell, lives at Richmond, near
London, Eng She is a middle-aged woman who
delights in outdoor exercise and is especially
fond of horseback riding.
JAMES 6. BLAINE and Senator Window about
three wears ago bought 200 acre, of Denver
suburban property for $40 per acre Their
agents have JUST sold the land for 500 per acre
and the Denver papers say it was fairly sacri-
feed
FRANK r. STOCKTON has another novel nearly
ready. He la'oly said TO a reporter: Some of
my stories are very hard taSkmaSterS. One in
particular, and it was a short one. too. chased
me over 800 miles and then cudgeled me severely
for trying to get away from it," DO You ever
escape asked tie reporter. Not often |
have tried several very ingenious plans, but a
clever story can generally outwit me-
IL the lobby of the capitol at Washington has
hung for years crayOu portrait which could
not be identified. About year ago two women
recognized il as a picture OF John w TAYLOR of
New y Ork, who was i'll Congress for ~ enty con
secutive years Taylor was Speaker of the Six
tenth Cougre after Henry lay left the chair
to construct the Missouri compromise bill He
was also SDeh Ser of the Nineteenth Congress
For n generation PAST, however his face has
hung in the lobby and 10 one recognized il
Even his nephew. Congressman $. :. Cox. could
not identify the CTayon. Tba two women who
recognized the portrait have had an oil painting
made from it,, which will he hung in the lobby
and bear a plate with the name of John w. Tay.
lor inscribed upon il.
MEN who can make capital after-dnner
speeches saws the New York Press are always
envied by those who cannot. A graceful little
accomplishment like that ought To be part of
every gentleman's mental outfit, but, unfortl-
nately, II is not. Monc,Ire Conway is always
happy in post prandial Oratory. He has a voice
which gives 10 everything he says a peculiar
drollery, ana rs suggestive Of any amount of
funny things 10 COME. And then, be never for
EtLS 10 neal ABOUT the lhtIieS II IL
only the kentucklan's motto, God bless 'em.
And hp can be witty when he pleaseS Gen.
Horace Porter is another who can keep the
table in roar. He speaks in a slow drawl
which wins upon his hearers before he begins TO
eXudc wit. lie wears the air of uucou~ciolisne, IS
TO perfection Aud then, his bright speeches
ara helped along by his good looks
Cot lngersoll is a glorious after dinner
speaker, and Mark Twain leads all the rest
Mr. lialstead is up 20 the most OF them in this
branch OF forensic art and makes hit, over i'm
Europe every summer and here in the winter.
J. T. Barnum is interesting, hut succeeds host
whore there are NJ ladies' tor the reason that
the presence Of the fair uunerves hum eThe
Southern gentleman Is rarely caught Mapping
when there h. speech-making TO do. II Is a mart
Of his education which has had care. His high
respect for the Roman forum has Influenced
his life. The late Henry Mart Bcocher was as
inimltable as table orator as Ia the pulpit