The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-04
PERSONAL.

CARDINAL GIBBONS is a small man, with steel
gray eyes, close-cut gray hair and genial man.
ner. He never refuses visitor, and is always
willing, when interviewed upon any important
subject, to talk-about the weather.
YAM PHoN LEE, graduate of Yale, who mar.
ried a wealthy New Haven Comm girl, has
been appointed to a position in the Pacific bank,
San Francisco, Cal. He will attend to all tie
business his countrymen, the Chinese, have with
the bank
THE GEAR, as a memorial to his late parents,
has devoted 100000 roubles and an estate
worth 300 600 roubies year to the foundation
and maintenance of an institution for the blind
at st. Petersburg, to be called the Alexander
Marien institute.
THE Duke and Duchess d'Aosta dispensed
with a honeymoon and are living quietly at the
duke S palace They will shortly pay a visit to
Empress Eugene, at Marlborough. The dia-
mond tiara which Duke d'Aosta presented his
bride cost $1,000, and contains 1,150 stones.
IT Is SAID that the Princess Maud of Wales
carefully collects, in the yards of Sandringham
house, and in those of Windsor, BalmoraI and
Osborne, all the peacocks' feathers and begs
them also from her young friends of the En-
gsh nobility. With this plumage, received
without cost, she makes pretty hand screens
and sells them at baZarS for the profit of poor
little children.
ROBERT f. LEE president of Washington and
Lee University, at Lexington. Va, and son of
the confederate general, when he gives a par
ticuarly important dinner party, spreads his
table with linen cloth, in the corner of which
for the true and only &c. W., " having formerly
belonged to George Washington, from whose
august possession they have descended to their
present owner. who is a direct descendant from
Martha Washington.
FREDERICK ENGEIs, the Anglo German social.
list publcst, well known as the intimate ally
and collaboration OF Karl Marx recently spent
seven weeks in the United States and escaped
without being either interviewed or photo.
graphed He accompanied Or. Edward and
Mrs. Eleanor Aveing and left With them on the
City OF New York. He was especially success
full in avoiding nearly all his socialist comrades
here, a fact at which they are not pleased. Mr.
Engels naturally resents their treatment of
Karl Marks daughter, Mrs. Aveling, two years
ago.
WHEN Samuel L. Clemens-Mark Twain
goes TO New York he rests himself att the Muir
ray Hill Hotel and occupies one OF the cosiest
apartments in the big house. Wonder If he
ever thinks in these days Of his prosperity, and
while he lounges gracefully amid his rich and
luxurious surroundings, OF the time, now nearly
thirty years ago, when he shoveled quartz in a
Nevada silver mine for $40 week aud found
himselfg Yes, Mark Twain saw great deal Of
the merciless side of a poverty stricken life In
his early days, and nobody should blame him in
these years If, after gaining fortune of about
Sl,OO00O0, he is as careful OF it as he was of
his first salary of $3.50 month as a Mississippi
river pilot.
WRrTING Of a lunchparty, some time ago, at
Mr. Booths Newport home, at which the late
William WHrren and Joseph Jefferson and his
wife and daughter were present, Mrs. Florence
Howe Hall says in the Boston Transcript: The
talk, OF course, was largely ABOUT the stage, or
matters connected with it; for actors dearly
love their profession, and, according TO my ex-
perence at least, always enjoy talking about IL.
We were muca Interested in this peep behind
the scenes. and in the droll stage "reminiscences
which were recounted for our benefit, Joseph
Jefferson told us how he once forgot his part
or rather forgot that he had delivered two or
three lines which make telling point in Lend
Me Five Shillings' and gave them a second
thine Great was his surprise when the audi
ence did not respond with applause, as had al
ways been the case heretofore; but the lady
with whom he was playing whispered to him:
You have repeated your llnesN One OF our
party now asked William Warren whether he
had ever had similar experience, whereupon
he told us that once, when playing in the
American Cousin he had struck the match by
the right end jnsteadof by tho wrong one, as
the play required. The match caught fire, and
for moment he Yas so disconcerted that he
completely forgot his part. until a fellow actor
gave hun his lines inasiage. whisnAr-2E