The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-27
PERSONAL.

President DIAz of Mexico, is worth about
81, 100000, and lives in modest unassuming style
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has given the
Soldiers Home at Leavenworth 1900 books from
her husbands library.
LORD CoTTEsLoE, the nonogenarian English
peer, has not missed the reading of the BUDGET
III the House of Lords for fifty years.
SENATOR SpooNER will deliver the address at
the unwilling of the monument to the Wiscon-
sin soldiers ON the field of Gettysburg June 30.
CORNELIUS O'LEARY, residing near ElktoD. is
the oldest man in Dakota. He was born near
Lake Killarney, April - 1714 and has withstood
the Dakota billiards. for eight years.
SENATOR REAGAN, of Texas, has bought a
house in Washington. This makes forty-four
Senators ont of seventy six who own the houses
in which they live. In 1860, it is said, only four
Senators kept house and not one lived in a house
of his own.
GEN. Tom EWING, of New York, formerly of
Ohio, is spoken of as possessing the qualities
necessary to the making of AN admirable Chief
Justice, ~ and by way Of further recommends
tion II is added that ne is amassing fortune in
the practice of his profession.
Miss Louise SEEGER and Mr. Morton Nc
Michael will be married at Philadelphia newt
Wednesday, Miss Seeger is a daughter of the
late Rudolph Seeger, an eminent manufacturer
and a granddaughter of Louis A. Cooley of
GodeB's Lddg's Book. Mr.. McMichael is
grandson of the late Morton McMichael, of the
North american.
LIEUT. Gov. JONES was legally Governor OF
New York for about half an hour one day last
week. While Gov, Hill and party were at
Niagara Falls they crossed the suspension
bridge TO the Canadian side to get a fuller and
better view of the cataract. The Governor
being out of the United States the functions of
his Office fell upon the Lieutenant Governor.
LIANo CHANG, or Mr.. LANG, as he is called.
interpreter of the Chinese Legation at Wash
ington, is a great poker player He is a grad
uRte of an American college fact which in
part explains his skill In manipulating straight
Pushes and full houses. Mr.. LANG possesses
that quality which card players call nerve"
He will back a small pair TO the extent of $500
with an Oriental placidity which is apt TO de
ceve the most experienced poker expert in
Washington.
Miss AGNArA FRANcEs RAMSAY, the young
English lady who took the foremost rank in the
Classical rripoS at Cambridge last year, Is pre-
pairing a new translation Of "Herodotus--
Miss Ramsay comes from q race of classical
scholars, her father, Sir James Ramsay, having
taken double first at Oxford, her uncle, DR.
George q. Ramsay, occupying the chair Of
Professor of Latin at Glasgow University and
her great-uncle being the author Ramsay's
Roman Antiquities
Col. FRANK BURR, one of the keenest OF the
grand army special newspaper correspondents
says that I'm Ohio John sherman is a political
tradition, relic Of the past, not living part Of
the mighty present. that the State indorse-
ment OF him Is offered more as q duty than a
compliment" and that the present generation
virtually feel obliged TO honor him because
their fathers did before them" In other words
while the dose is nauseating, they swallow it
from mere force Of habit and with plenty Of
wry faces.
THE DucHEssE DE DINO from whose abundant
Golfers are said to have come the funds that
assisted in securing Gen. Bouanger's election,
brought to the eccentric Marquis an almost
princey fortune, which he appears to have
found available in furthering his political
schemes, he being, Republican of the Roche
Tort type. One of his peculiarites, II il said is
TO occasionally surprise the Anarchists by for
wardng them handsome check. The Duchess
was formerly Adele Livingston Strauss of New
husband