The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-16
PERSONAL.

THE late Eugene Rimmel, the famous London
perfumer, left personal estate valued at $780,
000 and made requests TO all persons who had
been in his employ for ten years.
TEN PRESIDENTS have been renominated for
office, and of these, seven were elected and
three defeated. Old John Adams his son John
Quincy Adams, and Martin Van Buren, were the
unsuccessful ones.
NJ. CARNoT will spend his summer holidays at
Ramboulet which up TO 1888. was let to the
Due de la TremOitle, but since then has not been
occupied. Rambouet Is about thirty miles
from Paris, and the mansion was built in I'LL
by the Comte de Toulouse, aud in IT'S it was
purchased by Louis XVI. It was there that
Charles X. halted in 1889, while still uncertain
whether both himself and his dynasty would be
deposed. On the approach of a mob from
Paris he retreated to the coast to seek refuge in
England.
WHILE looking out of one of the windows of
his home when last propped up for that pur-
pose, a Washington correspondent relates Gen.
Sheridan caught sight of the equestrian statue
at Scott circle, block away Gen. Scott is be-
striding the most extraordinary old screw in
bronze equine. 1t is said that used to cause
Gen. Grants features to expand into a broad
smile every time he looked at il. Gen Sheridan
gazed at it steadily. Then he said very earnestly
10 his brother: Mike, if ever grateful country
should erect equestrian statue of me for
Gods sake, see that have better mount than
Scott
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has been talking
about the modern novel, saying, among other
criticisms: We'll, IL does seem that the
modern novel il void of interest to a certain ex-
tent, and have not failed to give this some con
sideration. Ihave after much s{Idy and analysis
decided that the trouble with most of the works
of fiction of the present is that they are too
much tinctured with materialism. The success
full writer Of the present day must be idealistic,
and this does not prevent him from being true
TO human nature, or giving the dialect of any
section from which his subject may be
selected"
IN the list Of delegates to the Chicago conven.
ton there are various suggestive names White
house is the appropriate name of a Penn
sylvania delegate A Hero goes from Louisiana,
while a man whose name is Dennis will repre-
sent "A Maryland district. The same state sends
Poscy, and Tennessee provides a Priest, two
Buffers and a Taylor Gee and Have are
among the delegates and Brand and Slaughter
come from "old Virginny" and Rhode Island
sends Bull. Alabama presents Threat and
Georgia sends Fortune. Delaware kindly fur
nshes a Treat and California n DiUond. Da-
kota, Of course, sends forth a Frost, aud Texas
provides the Coffee. one Of the Kentucky dele.
gates Is Jolly.
EMPEROR WILLIAM beoueathed TO the Hall OF
Glory at Berlin the sword which he carried from
1910 TO 1884; the sword he carried in the battle
of koeniggraetz, July 3, 1865, and all through
the Austrian and Franco-German wars its blade
having the names Of the principal battles en-
graved upon II; the sword carried by him
parades the sword inherited from his brother,
King Frederick William ~; al his decorations
for military merit, together with the presents
received on his military jubilees, and his gold
and silver laurel wreaths and finally, the sword
carried by his father in the unlucky days Of
1906 and during the Napoleonic wars, which
during the emperor's lifetime, always stood by
his writing desk Ia the historic corner-room Of
the royal palace. AS u souvenir the LIGHTER
felde corps Of cadets received the sword pre-
sented TO the emperor at st. Petersburg in 1894
and carried by him until the morning of the day
OF Koeniggraetz. Finally, the emperor ordered
the uniforms OF all the regiments, OF which he
was the honorary commander. TO DO distributed
~ the respective regiments