The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-07
PERSONAL.

PRoF. E. B. ANDREWS of Brown University,
having been called to the Chair of Political
Economy at Cornell University, the Boston
Herald thinks that lone Of the abstruse prob
lens he ought to clear up for the benefit of his
pupils is why a crack ball player or a French
COOK can command more than twice as big
salary as college professor of political econ
Omy." The Professors salary. by the way is
81, 900.
Gov. BEAVER of Pennsylvania, is one of the
hard working public men. he goes to the State
House Immediately after an O'Clock breakfast
and stays at bis desk until $50. He does not
even taketime to go out to luncheon, but has his
midday meal, which consists of a pitcher of
lemonade and few soda biscuits, brought 10
him. Gov. Beaver is just 80 years Of age, is six
end a half feet high, and weighs l57 pounds.
lie lost a leg during the war, but finds no
trouble in getting around without it.
MANY PERSONS have wondered how doing a
lively galop got TO be called dancing the
racquet" Mrs. Simmons well-known young
lady of Washington composed few years ago
a galOp and was at a loss t. give il name,
One day being disturbed by callren in tho
room She called out: Don't make such
racket, =" which was caught up and repeated by
the children as they went out. 1t occurred to
her that it was good name for her piece aud
so with a touch of French she called it the
Racquet Galop and over 100000 copies of it
have been sold.
THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA has sent her corona.
ton dress to the national museum. The mantle
was literally cloth of gold, for il was a very
supple gold tissue, with the heraldic eagle of the
ROmanoifs appliaued in black silk. On the
heart of the bird was the arms of Moscow the
sacred city; on the wings, those of the king
doms over which the Car reigns, and of the
Duchy of Finland. The train of the dress was
also of gold tissue, richly embroidered. and the
combined weight Of so much metallic thread as
was used in the dress and mantle caused great
fatigue to the illustrious wearer
Col. P. T. WALD, clerk at the Hoffman House,
New York, belongs to more societies than any
one in that city. For number of years he has
been President of the Winter School of Christian
Philosophy, and has done much as any in
dvidual not an ordained minister, to elevate
the moral tone of Gotham lie is a fluent talker
and INDUCES in convincing flights of rhetoric.
He has made money in mining stock, and his
idea is to devote whatever surplus wealth he
may have 10 founding eeemoSynary institu-
tons Col Wall is somewhat stout, wears gold
trimmed spectacies, and has u sober. clerical
look that soon vanishes when his mobile face
lights up with a SerocoRic smile
KooT HooMI is being who, living in Thibet,
has stirred up considerable excitement in
Chicago where esoteric Buddhism is now making
converts. Mr.. Hoomi, or "koot,' as he is
called by intimate friends is over 100 years of
age, and says he has been reincarnated several
times He was responsible for the recent
Theosphical Convention In the Western Venice
The Chicagoan who received Hoomi's letter
from Thibet did not get IL from postman. The
communication, bearing no stamp nor post
mark materialized on his desk one morning in
utter defiance of all governmental regulations
The epistle informed the Chicago Buddhist that
they must at once hold convention. Hooml
failed, however, to command them to nomi-
nate q Presidential candidate.
THE GERMAN EMPRESS" says writer In the
Journal dcs Debdts, lis. the soul of the I'M
perial household. She is much better loved
there then outside, whore people are unjust TO
her. She has committed the mistake of re-
naming English-as all the English do--and to
carry the pride OF her race into the middle of
people which admires itself with a naive and
enormous complaisance; she brought the pride
OF her birth into IA family which believes itself
the first in the world; her arstocratic tastes
into a town where art shows itself in clumsy
limitations and patchwork the independence Of
her views into Court where everything is reg
ulated and prearranged; and the liberty of her
religious and political sentiments into a center
where religion has its narrow forms, as the poll
tics OF which it ia the servant. This indepepd-
ence of the Princess and the wicked habit
which she had contracted OF thinking for her
self, rather ruffied the old Hohenzollerns. But
entire harmony exists between the Empress
and her husband. She reads serious literature
Adam Smith, Thornton, John Stuart Mill
Herbert Spencer and other political econo-
mistS The Emperor inquiries into the social
problem and studies the theories Of the Social
lists. This accounts, perhaps, for the Socialist
navor Of his address 70 tho German people."