The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-08
PERSONAL.

DIR. J. c. AYERS widow is reported to be
worth $25,000,O00.
HARUKA, Empress of Japan, will visit Amer
lea next winter. travelling in state with dozen
incident of luxury.
Mayor of Liverpool, has offered to give ESQ OOO
| toward building a cathedral in that city.
Miss WARD, daughter of Gen. Roadway C.
Ward, of Brooklyn, is to be married to a nephew
| OF Cen Won Bulow, OF the German army. The
| young man is Lieutenant of Guards
| CARTER HARRISON writes from India to say
that the water IN that country is positively uu-
| drinkable, and malicious editors who don't
| know "Our Carter" are inquiring how he knows.
THE Prince Of Wales wears a billycock hat.
smokes short pipe, and drives about in a
| hired carriage when at Cannes or Nice and cuts
| everybody who attempts to treat him as a
| prince.
Mrs. QUINCY A. SHAW, of Boston, daughter
| of Louis Agassiz, has for eight years supported
| free kindergartens in the poorest quarters of
Boston and Cambridge, at a personal expense
of $4,000.
GEN. SHERMAN calls attention to the fact that
George Washington, when he died, was a Lieu
tenant General, and consequently, there never
have been in this country but two Generals
Grant and Sherman.
GEN. AUGUST V. KAUTz, the famous cavalry
leader OF the war has struck it rich in the
for So EACH for which he was recently offered
and refused $1,000 apiece.
MISS LINDA GILBERT has devoted fifteen wears
and most of her fortune to prison reform She
has established twenty-five libraries in the
prisons of different States and found EMPLOY
lnent for 5000 ex-convicts.
PRoF. HERMANN, the prestidigitateur has re-
celved several letters from spritualistc and
meSmeric charlatans begging HIM not to expose
their jugglery, and Offering him large sums of
money If he will keep quiet.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, of telephone fame,
may still be spoken of as young man, for he
has only recently turned his 10th year Twenty
five years ago he was a poor boy in Edinburgh
lie came to this country in 1872.
ARCHDUcHEss VALERIE, the youngest daughter
of the Emperor OF Austria, is to be betrothed
10 her cousin, the Archduke Francis, the eldest
son of the Archduke Charles, who is the pre-
sumptive heir to the throne, as the Crown
Prince has no son
Mrs. LANaTRY has again rented the cottage
which she occupied at Long Branch last sum
seasons tour is ended. She contemplates Civ.
ing week Of midsummer theatricals along the
shore, beginning at Long Branch and ending at
Atlantic City.
Rev. GEORGE BARNES. the famous evangelist
from the mountains of Kentucky, is man %
strS ng appearance. He is now 50 years old,
Is fully six feet tall and his straight, vigorous
form shows no sign OF the stoop that comes
Alplll dsts his lace SHOWS strength OF charaC-
ter and earnestness in every line.
Two of the best known bank presidents Of St
Paul married women with Indian blood in their
veins, and the children OF these unions are
among the most esteemed people of the city
such marriages were not uncommon in the
Northwest in the pioneer days, before white
women began to come TO the frontier.
THE Archduke Charles Louis OF Austria
passed through Paris recently on his way to
Madrid, travelling in strict incognto as Count Won
Roddenshem. The Archduke is believed to be
charged with special mission to the Queen
Regent ChristanA, the object OF which is to
bring about reconciliation between the Span
ish government and Don Carlos.
THE daily life of Alexander Dumas is a model
or regularity. He is out of bed by $50 in sum.
mer and not later than in winter. His first
breakfast consists solely Of a glass of milk
and the second, which occurs at noon, is a very
plain NEAL He dimes at Z. and is usually in
bed by 10. Every day he takes walk of some
length All his work is done before o'clock in
the afternoon.
TIE years clutch all alike. and Queen Victoria
has fallen into the habit of taking little cat
maps in her chair, even when visitors are pres
ent. At such times the royal lady goes through
the same routine followed by the most humble
oil her subjects Her head falls little forward
swaying slightly from side TO side; then she sits
bolt upright opens her eyes very wide and as
sumes an appearance Of great intelligence and
aleTtness-