The morning news., 1888-05-11
PER SON AL.

Mrs DIR. WILLIAM a. HAMMOND has been left
$3.50, 600 by an old uncle.
Mrs. CORNELIUS Vanderbilt has twenty-seven
carriages for her own use
Mrs. JAY GOULD rides down town in a Broad
way car and goes shopping afoot.
WILLIAM WINTER has gone to England to
spend the summer with Henry Irving
PRINCE BISMARCK received 1O1 plovers' eggs
on his birthday. He ate most of them raw.
LADY RANDOLPH L. CHURCHILL is coming over
with Ibis locdshp" to spend the summer at
Newport
Mrs. OSCAR WILDE wears green. She has
suits of all the shades of green, with hats gloves
boots and parasols to match.
Mrs. GEoReIA HARMONY, wife of the senior
Chief of Bureau in the Navy Department in
Washington, is on" of the best llnguists in the
capital
JOHN RUsKIN has written Sixty-four books,
and his income from them is $4,000. II took
ten tons of paper for the new Iition of ''Stones
of Venice"
JOHN GENNADIus Greek Minister to this
country, asserts that the Greeks of to-day are
as strong physically as their famous ancestors
of classic times.
THE EMPEROR OF CHINA has four physicians,
each whom receives a weekly salary, stopping
when he becomes sick; therefore his indiSposi-
ton is never Of long duration.
THE friends of the late Dinah Mulock Craik.
author of John Halifax Gentleman" are
about to erect marble medallion to her mem
ory i'll Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Eng
land.
MISS LINDA GILBERT has devoted fifteen years
and most of her fortune to prison reform. She
has established twenty-five libraries in the
prisons of different States, and found employ
ment for O,O00 ex-convicts.
CLARA LOUISE KELLoGG's marriage to Carl
Strakosch has just been officially announced by
"a
the advertisement of spring concert tour
through the Eastern States.
Mr. MILLER, the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, has bet barrel of old rye that the
"Plumed Knight will be the next Republican
candidate for the Presidency. An anti-Saloonist
has been appointed to hold the stakes.
Mrs, IRENE RucKER SHERIDAN, wife Of Lieut..
Sher' tan, is one of the most beautiful and ac-
complishcd women in Washington. She was
born at old Port Union in New Mexico, aud at
the Capital is called a Daughter of the Army"
II. II, GARRETT. of Baltimore, has had made
for his steam yacht CLEAN the smallest piano
ever constructed. II is a. inches high, A. inches
wide and 20 inches deep. The instrument, the
tone Of which is wonderfully sweet. was made
by Charles NJ. Steff, and designed by Charles
j. Gross.
Ed GILMORE of Niblo's Garden is a man Of
keen perceptions. The other day Mrs. Langtry
had a birthday, whicl of course was no new
thing, but Mr.. Gilmore, with his usual galantry,
sent her box of lilies, twenty five in all. Just
twenty-five Where can anything more delicate
and tastful be foundi"
CHARLES T. GuNTHER, OF Chicago, has one OF
the finest collections of Bibles in this country.
surpassed by none unless II be the Lenox Libra
ry. Among others, he has WycklyTs and the
Bishop Bibles, ana those strange examples of
errors in printing known as the wicked" the
Vinegar ana the "Breeches'' Bibles.
dov, HAMILTON, of Maryland, makes his home
at Hagerstown. where he was born and where
he made his early reputation as lawyer and
politician. He has fortune of $1,000, 900, ana
many fine farms in the country around Hagers-
town are his. He recently built in that city a
hotel which bears his name and which was
erected at cost of Sl6O,0OO
Miss GRACE H. DODGE. Of New York, is sur
rounded in her home by wealth and culture, yet
shs is one of the hardest working women in the
country. She is member of the Board Of
Education and chief promoter of the working
women's clubs, giving her entire time to the
furtherance Of their cause and helping the con-
dition Of humanity generally. She is woman
OF fine physique and robust appearance. and
for the last ten years mas allowed herself but
two weeks holiday in the sumEasa