The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-05
PERSONAL.

SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER shows no signs OF
age To use an athletic expression, he seems to
be in very good form.
REV. DR.. COURTNEY, rector Of st. Pauls Fpis
copal church, Boston, has been elected Bishop
Of the Anglican church in Nova Scotia, and has
accepted the call.
MARION HARLAND is to be the editor of a new
Illustrated magazine to be called the Home
maker, the publication OF which is to be begun
in New York in the autumn.
ALTHOUGH Prof. Richard A. Proctor has writ
ten many articles ON scientific poker playing he
told a Kansas City reporter the other day that
he had never taken hand in a game.
HORACE DAVIS, who has been chosen President
Of the California State University. has been a
Representative In Congress twice from San
Francisco. He is 30 years old and graduate of
Harvard
JOHN w. MAcKAY has for some time been laid
up at the Pacific Hotel in San Francisco with an
acute attack Of rheumatism, which has no more
respect for his millions than for the rags of the
mendicant.
GEORGE V. FOREMAN, who is one of the leading
citizens of Clean N. Y. and has fortune rated
at S30UO,OO0, was poor school teacher in New
Jersey when he went to the oil fields in 1868 to
make his fortune.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has adopted the habit
Of slipping away from his desk for half an hour
at about dusk for a sharp walk of two miles
End. He is said to have already reduced his
weight about twenty pounds.
EDITOR HART, of the Wheeling InteIIi0cncer.
has Just returned from Washington and saws in
his paper: Il met with all sorts of Republicans.
some of whom prefer Blaine and some others |
met with very few who do not look for the
nomination of Blaine. That is the pointing of
the straws."
Mrs. A. c. DUNCAN, who now lives in Pitts.
burg at the age of ~, was born in the Castle of
flasNIN IlaNf 1N1 fNal
distinction at the battle of Waterloo, was after
ward appointed Keeper of the Crown of Scot
land B." and this precious bauble was often worn
in sport by the then fair-haired child who is
now the venerable Mrs. Duncan.
A SOCIAL ORGANIZATION in Hartford, Conn.
which had planned TO engage Josef Holman to
play before n select assemblage based its scheme
upon a treasury surplus of $3.50 When the
members of the club were informed. ho"ever
that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt paid $4,000 to
have Holman perform at her musicale they
abandoned their ambitious design.
CHARLES DICKENS recently wrote his name ON
a New York hotel register Charles Boz Dick
ems, and said to friend: That was a little
joke of my grandfather's, who was present at
my christening, and when my father, in re-
Spouse to the clergyman, gave my name as
Charles my grandfather muttered Boz and
the minister put it in. This is my information
at least; / do not remember the circumstances
myself But am told that Charles Boz is my
baptismal name"
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IL intensely inter
estsd in the ministerial work OF her son the
Rev Chares Stowe, who has church in Hart
ford, Conn. Mr.. Stowe is a Congregat ionnlist
with radical tendencies. He Is a strong preach
err, and his mother. who Is now an old and feeble
woman, finds her greatest pleasure In life in
listening to his sermons, His church is some
distance from Mrs. Stoves house, but no mat
ter what may be the weather, the famous writer
Of Uncle Toms Cabin" never fails TO occupy
her pew on Sunday morning.