The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-29
PERSONAL

SAMUEL EDISON the aged father of Thomas
A. Edison, the electrical inventor lies very low
at his home in Fort Gratot, Mich
MILE. FERRY, French ballet dancer, recently
front row. The managers of the spectacle"
have promised her benefit if she lives to be
100
Rev. G. H. FILIAN, missionary, started a little
church in MaSSowvan, Turkey, with 800 men,
bers. Now he has 200 members, and the Turks
want to build a new church. They have sub
scribed $500.
MRS. BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR the widow of
Barry Cornwall" who died lately, knew
Charles Lamb, Keats. Tennyson, Lord Hough-
ton and Robert Browning. The only. time she
met Macauley he was silent.
DIR. McGLYNN thinks the May conference at
Cincinnati will result in the complete fusion of
the Union and United Labor parties, and he sug-
gestS as the name of the consolidated organiza-
ton 1.-THE Common Veal Party"
WILLIAM D., HowELLs the novelist, was
typesetter and so was Bret Harte, and so was
Mark Twain r. II. Stoddard, the poet, was a
blacksmith, Frank Stockton was an engraver
and John e. Whittier was a farmer with slight
interruption until lie was nearly 80 years old.
SIR WALTER ScoTT's Observation-Disclosures
Mrs. Maxwell Scott. still resides at Abbotsford
She is the granddaughter of the daughter who
married Lockhart. The house for which Scott
worked so hard is to let. This is a good chance
for an American pork king to get out of place.
IHE GROWN PRINCE NICOLAS, of Russia, who
is now II years old. is described as ELECTION
ate, warm hearted boy who is a great favorite
with everyone and who possesses democratic
notions. At the same time he has his fathers
inperous will and does not like to have his
plans interfered with.
MoNARoHs come high, but the Europeans
must have them. 1t costs $50 900 900 year to
maintain the royal family of Germany. The
Sultan of Turkey costs S1i, 900 900 q year, and
the nation is bankrupt; but the peasants work
in patience. The Gar of Russia spends 1900
600 year on his stables and the mere expenses
of his household are s., 900 year.
DID you ever hear of Periconche? Periconche
was nod carrier. He won 500000f in the Nice
lottery-a very nice prize. Now all the rich, or
lower middle class" families are trying to
marry off their daughters 10 him. Beggars
solicit loans. His life is miserable, and he
wishes he was back carrying hod. But he
goes to all the watering places and wears aplug
hat, nevertheless.
SHABBY OLD HATS seem to be fad with GER
tain Washington officials. The worn by
Senator EvartS is world-famouS, and that of
Attorney General Garland is running il sharp
race. II is not quite as old as that of Senator
Evarts, but il is shabbier. The Attorney Gen
eral has been demonstrated with by his friends
but he replies that he likes old things better
than new, and that nature did not intend him
for dandy.
MILLIONAIRE EDWARD WESTON, of New York,
has been married to his niece, Mrs. Mary +,
Cone. Mrs Cone has lived with her uncle for
years as housekeeper. caring for his children
and her own The marriage was a surprise to
the community, but il has excited no unfavor-
able comment. Rev DR. Macarthur performed
the cersmony. Legal advice was had on the
question of marriage between uncle and niece,
aud it was found there was no statute prohibiting
1t. Mr. Weston is 80, Mrs. Weston So
REV. DR.. ANDREW p PEABODY of New York,
who has just entered his 18th year, Is said to
have learned TO read before he was years old.
He we'll fitted for college under private
tuition that he passed the examination for ad-
mission when he was ~, and, by remaining
under instruction a year longer, he was enabled
to enter the junior class. AS he completed his
college studies at the age of Is he had the honor
of being the youngest person, with two eXcep-
tions, who had graduated at Harvard.
Sic. CRIsPI, the Premier Of Italy, was thus de-
scribed by an Italian deputy: 1T is always
difficult TO know what he wants and what he
means 10 do. He is a man of impulse not apt
TO weigh his words or acts. His decisions de-
pend In large part on the impressions of the
moment. He gets excited easily, and is capable
of doing the most foolish thing when angry In
the Chamber of Deputies he is master neither of
HIS words nor gestures. The least thing is apt
20 rlfie him, and at any moment he may "Ay
OF the hs-Si~ ,"