The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-01
Personal.

TIE Duchess of Wellington is lame and has to
use crutch, She is considered beautiful and
is very fond of birds, of which she has a large
collection.
The young Emperor of China is to be married
on the twenty fourth day of the first moon in
1889, and the event will cost the national
treasury 81 900.
A BIOGRAPHY of the Prince of Wales is soon
to be published under the title, THE Public
Life of His Royal Highness." His private life
would be more interesting.
SOMEBODY asserts that the King of Spain is
the only baby in the world who was never
spanked. His mother ought to chastise him
once in while with the rod of empire.
w. T. COLEMAN & Co. of San Francisco were
sued by the United States in 1867 for a balance
claimed TO be due on an importation of gunny
bags from Calcutta. The case has just come to
trial
GEN. JOIN L. SWIFT of Boston during his re-
cent stamping tour in Maine, was on one occa-
sion mistaken for Gen. Butler Gen. Swift has
nol yet determined upon the amount of dam
ages he will claim.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is very fond of fishing, and
she handles rod with great skill. Mrs Folsom
does not care for the sport but is very fond of
the scenery that at this time of the year makes
the Adirondacks paradise.
FRANK DEMPsrER SHERMAN, the poet, has
great fondness for the higher mathematics,
particularly for calculus. He is at present pre-
pairing for the press text book on calculus.
while at the same time revising his poems for
publication
DURING the month of September Belva A.
lockwood has addressed more than 170. 600 per-
sons. She did not influence many votes by this,
but she obtained a splendid advertisement.
Mrs. Lockwood is a presidential candidate for
revenue only.
DUKE MAMMALIAN of Bavaria and the Duchess
Louise will celebrate their diamond wedding in
October Their four daughters are the Elm
press of Austria, the Queen of Naples, the
Duchess dAlencon and tho Princess of Tburn,
who will all be present.
Mas BoHAN, wife and victim of the unspeak-
able Long Island wretch who gouged out her
eyes. said 20 him in their last interview before
his departure for the state prison: Il was
good wife to you, and you had comfortable
home would take your place If you could
give me back my sight"
WILLIAM c. PARKE. for thirty-four years pre-
ceding 1891 Marshal Of the Sandwich Islands,
and w. James Smith, secretary of the board of
education of the kingdom, have arrived in
Oregon on their way east. While Mr.. Parke
was marshal he coifined, buried, and attended
to the funeral rites Of five kings.
the Duke of Marlborough. it is said in Lon
dor, keeps private cab on somewhat econ
omical method His cabnlan receives no wages
but is privileged during the dukes absence from
town to ply for hire. The young fellows OF
Piccadily are fond of riding in 1.-THE dukes cab"
so that the driver is fairly well compensated for
the want of regular wages
Mas WESLEY CAMERON, who lives in CLARION
county. Pa. during the last summer killed
seventeen rattleSnakes. fiYe copperbeads. and
three backsnakes. Mrs. Cameron has been
reared in the snake region, and is proud of her
proficiency in killing them. Miss Sue Blakely,
pretty young lady of Warren county, killed
two rattlesnak,s I'm the morning and was mar
! red that evening
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Paris Figaro, who
saw Prince Bismarck at the ilway station at
Friedrichsruhe when he met kalnoly, gays that
sltNV l1..N1. IA g
the treatment whiclr f0rhdS his drinking at
meals. lie was looking extremely well. lie
walked with an elastic step ana his complexion
was clear pink. His health is better than 1t
has been for years. SO well has he been that
he has not been obliged to go to Kissiugen this
season.