The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-04
PERSONAL.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY says she is 6s years of age
Nobody will be likely to dispute this statement.
LORD WoLvERToN's WILL does not confirm the
report that he had left a large sum to MIR. Glad
stone. The property was fLS1J,OOO.
ABEL WILLARD, of Meenah Wis. is SO years
Of age, aud has been toothless for years. A new
set of fine teeth has just begun to grow on his
venerable gums.
CITIZEN TRAIN, who is lecturing up in New
Brunswick now adds to his autograph, "Oma-
has Twenty Millionaire, Self Expatriated. - The
Citizen Is doing quite we'll
GEORGE r. Sims, the author of 'Ostler Joe"
and "Harbor Lights, is just 81 years of age
He makes upward of $1,000 year b. his pen.
and was unheard of zen years ago.
SAYS the Boston Herald: what's the matter
with Mayor Francis, of 81. Louis for Vice Pres
ident?n He's all right The Governorship of
Missouri is all that he cares for at present
UNITED STATES MINISTER CURRY employs his
mis- leisure time at Madrid in writing a work on
the different constitutions by which Spain ha
been governed since the establishment Of the
Parliamentary regime.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN has again pos tponed his
departure from Washington. Gossips say that
it Is an American belle who keeps him at the
capital The question now is: VIII he ring the
belle before he returns to England?
P1vcus M1xKowsKY from the synagogue at
Odessa, Russia, has been imported by the mem
bers of the Eldridge Street Synagogue New
York, at a salary of $500 year. He is said To
be the bast rabbinical singer in the world,
A MONUMENT which Will cost s.. 900, 900 will
soon be erected in Panama to the memory of
Gen. Bolivar the liberator Of Bolivia Colombia
Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Each of the
five republics will contribute S4O0,000 for the
purpose.
PRINcE ALBERT VICTOR, of Wales, now "A
years old, says he does not want an establish
ment Of his own until he gets married, an event
which he has not yet even begun to seriously con
template, despite the fact mat he is rumored TO
be engaged to n Princess of Greece.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, who is hale and hearty at
GO, has served twenty two years in the Senate,
and should he live will have the best chance of
any man IN the Senate to complete a term OF
thirty years and thus equal the record of Mr..
Benton, of Missouri the only statesman who
ever held his place in the Senate that length of
time.
PRINCE Henry. OF Prussia the Crown Princes
second son, smokes his pipe in the English fash
ion, and smokes IL morning. noon and night.
You could meet him when he was at san Reno
strolling about after breakfast with a we'll
colored English short clay or Guilty. In the
afternoon he made just this sacrifice TO fashion
he changed the clay for a briarroot,
MRs. JOHN BIGELow. the wife of Tilden's
trusted friend is great matchmaker, So much
that the marriageable men of heracquant-
ance are ant TO be a bit shy of her, well as they
generally like her. There are men that she has
been struggling to land in matrimony for
twenty years, anu against Nnoin she lnlS season
marShals her forces of pretty girls undismayed
and undiscouraRed,
REAR ADMIRAL HENEAGE, the officer com.
mandng the British Pacific Station, is earning
the epithet OF Sir Joseph Porter" He has
forbidden any officer or man 10 walk on the
poop of the flagship while he Is there, and in
sists on the crew uncoverng their heads as
long as he is on deck. He also requires his
officers 10 wear white kid gloves at divisions on
Sundays, and 10 have their trock coats and
TUNES buttoned on all occasions.
A WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE has made an
interesting mathematical calculation regarding
the number OF hands shaken by the President
and Mrs. Cleveland during the last few months
The figures are startling. Since July, last Mrs.
Cleveland has graSped fully 100000 hands The
President has shaken nearly twice as many
Mrs. Cleyeland's hand, says the writer lis
longer, narrower and thinner than the Presi.
dents The nerve is even better aud the grip
nrmer.
AT the Grand Army Republic fair In Washing
ton few evenings ago Gen, Sheridan was pass
ing the gypsy booth when Miss Nellie Wikin-
son accosted him and asSed TO be permit ed 70
tell his fortune. IN tell you the past. present
and future, aud who will be our next President"
said the pretty maiden. The General smiled,
but refused 10 investigate the mysteries of fate.
MY fortune is already made" he remarked,
"and friend Blaine has removed all doubts re-
garding tue Presidency"