The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-16
PERSONAL.

THE DEATHS of Emperors William and
Frederick have cost the Princes of Thurn and
Taxs the enormous sum of S50O,OOO because, as
feudal lords of the Prussian dsmain of Krotos-
zyn, they have to pay $3.50 900 on the decease
| of every king of Prussia.
THE king Of Corea is not the weakling that
his enemies represent him. In fact, he is a
strong. kindly progressive man. who has hard
road to 60, and whose gentleness is sometime
mistaken for lack of strength. Americans who
have known him admire him.
THOSE who observe such things declare with
striking unanimity that Senator Blackburn's
summer clothes are the coarsest ever seen in
the capitol The material resembles himsy
sackcloth, and the seams appear to have been
made with packing needle and Irvine.
NINE CARNoT, wife of the French president is
assuming youthful airs and graces which have
awakened a strong spirit OF rdicule in the
French capital, At recent open-ar fete she
wore a dress of white nuns yelling, a gray
jacket and white straw bonnet trimmed with
pink roses toilet that was altogether too
simple and too light of hue for her age and
thinneSs and sallowness. She parts her hair ON
one side in an unbecoming manner.
MISS NELLIE GOULD is an artist of no mean
ability, and her collection of bric-a- brac
adorned by her own brush and pencil is much
admired. She is probably the richest heiress in
America, and at her fathers death will come in
for $50, 900 900, or $50, 900 Like her mother.
she is not too proud TO wait on herself. She
does sot mind riding in horse-cars, aud does not
put on nearly as many airs as the wives of some
of the men who serve her. Last spring she
took to Atlantic City several little girls from a
New York charity hospital and cared for them
with great kindness and consideration.
SPEAKING of Mrs Alice J. Shaw, the Ameri-
can whistler, The Saturday Review of London
remarks that many people have been asked out
TO hear her. regarding the whole thing as a
joke and have come away in simple wonder at
the unlooked-fOr display of her powers. They
have found her n sound musician and q subtle
mistress of her particular art. They have
found that, through her special medium. she
could fill Covent Garden with ecstatic trills or
sink into the softeSt whispered notes the execu-
ton of which only years q rehearsal could
achieve. IL may be difficult 10 conceive a
whistng prima donna; but the fact is that
whistlng as fine art is worthy of attentive
study. Those who have once heard Mrs. Alice
Shaw cannot fail to realize that, II whstling
were cultivated as a fine art by those who, in
addition to musical endowment. have strength
of vocal chord, highroofed palate, and 1ex-
ible buccal aperture, they might be trained TO
take part in a concert, as of many clarionets
with an effect more thrilling than the most OK
Quisite Instrumental music has ever conlured
up, and which, from its novelty alone, would
be more surprising than any concert hitherto
heard whether Instrumental or vocal
1T Is RECALLED in connection with the cele-
bration of the golden wedding of Mr.. aud Mrs
Gladstone recently, that Lady Glynne, Mrs
Gladstones mother was much opposed TO the
marriage OF her daughter with the future pre-
INFER. Inc BOpu dulle WIS al dfls
tocrat, and did not think that the marriage of
her daughter with a com -ioner, the son of a
plebeian merchant Of Liverpool, was quite the
thing. She would have a0scnted herself from
tho wedding but that another daughter was
married at tho same time and place to a peer
Lord Lytteton. The young bride, however, had
high hopes for her conIiuoner husband. At n
dinner party in London some time before she
became acquainted with Mr.. Gladstone her at
tention was directed to him by an old states
man. "Do YOU see that tall, handsome young
man oppositey' said the latter to Miss Glynne:
mote him well, and mark my words. II his life
is spared, he will one day be prime minister"
The prediction has been three times fulfilled
The young wife has done her part toward its
fulfillment, and now, in her old age, is looking
hopefully forward TO the time when her hus-
band shall be for the fourth time premier.