The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-08
Personal.
JAMES C. FIooD of California is reported from

| JAMES c. FLOOD of California is reported from
| Heidelberg, Germany, to be rather better.
| HERR RUDOLPH FALB, the universal provider
| in the matter of earthquakes, has issued his
| nual bud get of alarm, says London exchange
"He says that are to have plenty of earth
| quakes eXt year, the days upon which he has
| fixed being March H. April IS, May 15 Aug. II,
| Sept. @ Oct. 81, and Nov. 3"
THE Shakespeare statue in Paris has enraged
certain conservative Frenchmen, l. UniUerS
| and lie POitdire are trying to anger the Paris
ians by quoting the insults to Joan of Arc
| found in Shakespeare's Henry VI" But Joan
| Of Arc is considered as much of a bygone in
France as Susan B. Anthony is in this country.
BROWNING, the poet, is greatly satisged with
| the Venetian palace which he recently pur-
| chased for S25 900. II is a vast building, which
was erected early in the seventeenth century in
| the renaissance style. The magnificent facade
| IS covered with immense heads of men and ami
| mails. The ceilings of the principal salons are
| Superbly painted and decorated.
| KALAKAuA King of the Sandwich islands, is
writing novel, He has long had literary as
| pirations. but did not feel that he ought TO
attempt fiction until after he had learned some
| thing about life rom experience. Now, how
| ever, that his wife is able to give him points
about Boston he feels at liberty to go ahead and
write yarn. The scene will be laid III the Hub
| of course
| A PAcKAGE of silverware and other valuables
| directed TO Lord Sackvle recently reached Bal
| timore from England. The necessary papers
permitting the package to pass through the
Baltimore custom house free of duty have been
| received from the treasury department at the
| request of the state department. But the state
| department still holds that Sackve himself
| has been too free and must go,
THERE is to be great rivalry in Washington
| this season between the ministers from Persia,
| Corea, China and Japan. They are all wealthy
men and can afford to entertain, though the
| Chinese minister is the only one among them
who has more money than he knows what to
| ii .IapanRSA minister at
advantage in that he has charming wife who
| is fast making many warm friends in Washing
| ton.
| NJ CoQUEIIS has met with applause In Boston,
but he absolutely refuses to eat baked beans
His manager advised the comedian to express
| to a reporter his admiration for Boston's favor
| lite dish, but the Frenchman refused to descend
| TO such a subterfuge. What have beans TO do
| with art MONSIEUR" he asked, dehantly. "Busi-
ness is business, and beans are beans in Boston, -
| was the alhterative answer of the manager, but
| Coquelin did not see the point.
England is bemoaning the fact that the Prince
| of Wales has lost his skill as marksman At
the imperial hunt in Austria he missed four
| stays, much to the surprise and disgust of
| Francis Joseph. The reason for this decadence
| in his ability as hunter is not hard to discover
| He smokes too much to retain steady hand,
and his nerves are not in healthy condition
| IL is said that he smokes ten cigars day and a
| large number of cigarettes besides.
Cor. ELLIOTT f. SHEPARD, who spends his
tliiio III quoting scripture, ieSbuIlHs
and cutting coupons, was badly blackballed by
| the Downtown CLUB a few days ago. He was
| advised to take his name down, but he did not
| believe that the Phistines would dare to
! affront a man who runs q newspaper and de-
| votes its columns TO high tariff arguments and
| items about religion The Phistines however.
| gathered in force, and Col Shepard will never
| be member of the Downtown club. Shepard
is beginning to feel rather sheepish at his failure
to win success as public man.
| AMONG the relatives and friends who went
| down TO see the Baron and Baroness Huene off
| to Russia day or two ago, was George V. n.
| Lo.hrop, the father of the Baroness, strik-
| ingly courtlv and distinguished but entirely
American man. Mr.. Lothrop, who until last
August was United STATES Minister TO Russia,
succeeded through three years of diplomatic
! sojourn in n country he had never seen befors
| in Preserving TO a notab BILE degree the dignity of
his Office aud Of his country aud his own indie
pendence and patriotism. When he goes back
now 10 his law practice in Detroit with his one
remaining daughter, he will be received in quite
as friendly fashion as IL he had never been
abroad among the "big bugs" Now, in the in
terestlng series Of experiments in marrying
American glrls to European noblemeu, the ALI
ance OF the Baron and Baroness Huene. of which
both families entirely approved, ought to DO a
case worth watching.