The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-12
PERSONA.

THE right name of Emin Pasha Tor Emin
Bey, as he ls more generally known is given as
Scnnitzle:. He is a native of Austrian Silesla,
it is asserted, and he entered the Turkish army
as SUI geon.
"OuIDA" has really become religious. It was
rumored some time ago that she was verging
toward repeutanc and now it is learned that
she spends her days in reading pious books and
making long prayers.
\ WELL KNOWN AMERICAN PUBLISHER says
that the works of Charles Dickens can hardly
Ge brought out fast enough TO keep up with the
demand, while reprints OF Thackeray hardly
pay for the paper used.
THE Prince Of Wales grows fat and scant of
breath. The prince is divine" waltzer, and
London society women are mourning the fact
that his highness dances but little now, his
wind giving out 80 quickly.
LORD TENNYsoN, though he denies that he is
to write poem outlining the changes of re-
lgous faith through which he has passed,
acknowledges that he is at work on a philo-
sophical work IN verse which will touch more or
less upon questions of religion.
LORD DuFFERrN, viceroy of India is now de-
pendent upon arnanueuss. The tendons of
both his hands have contracted, and he is un-
able to use pen. The tendons have been cut.
but II Will be impossible for the noted diplomat
TO regain free use of his hands.
JOHN ToD, a Scotchman who has just pub
lished in Edinburgh book entitled Bits About
America says that American women have
great power of expressing what they mean.
There are a few married men In this country
who Will thoroughly agree with Mr., Tod.
ALEXANDER DUMAS is one of the few wealthy
authors in the world. He has a magnificent
house in Paris filed with art treasures. Near
Dieppe he owns beautiful chalet covered, with
ivy and decorated on the inside with handsome
furniture and rare paintings. Dumas is "a years
OF age, but strong aud vigorous.
PRINCESS SOPHIE, the young sister of the Ger
man emperor and prospective bride of Constan-
tine, Duke Of Sparta, and heir to the Greek
throne, is not pretty, but attractive. She has a
round fresh face, and looks a little like her
grandmother Queen Victoria, and good deal
like her late father, Emperor Frederick.
Miss LOIS NJ. ROYCE, the little school-teaching
heroine Of the western blizzard, has received
the pair Of artificial feet, TO provide which
means, and they have already proved wonder
fully efficient She writes: They 1T so far
admirably, and | walk very well with them. l
walked TO the carriage this afternoon just by
taking hold Of my fathers arm"
JoHN Dunn. the renegade Zulu leader, has en-
tlrely renounced ciyilization, and has taken up
two or three dozen Zulu wives BY birth he is
Scotchman. His father was a trader IN Natal.
john went out to South Africa when very
young. and has never returned. He traded
among the Hulus for bis father, and, by and by,
took "A liking for the people and the country and
settled permanently there. He soon became an
.. ..-.... ..un.D an Americanized and chris.
tianzed Chinaman of Brooklyn, proposes TO
marry Miss Annie futile of the same city She
is about ~ aud he about the same age. First "a
laundryman, he afIerward became city mis-
sion Try. He is going In o the ministry. and
VIII return to China, wnere, in Canton, there is
a Presbyterian college. The young man was TO
have ben married Sunday, but friends utter
fred and he must return alone to China for a
Two years absence.