The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-07
PER SONAL.

THE POPE has plate OF light soup served to
| him four times a day. He never drinks any
wine but claret
| CHAUSCEY NJ DEPEw announces that he will
be secretary of the exterior and will watch the
progress of events from the outside. Democrats
consider the appointment an excellent one.
AMONG the students at Miss Porter's school.
| Harrington, Conn, are a daughter of James G
Blaine, a niece OF the late ex- President Arthur
| and a daughter of exGov Alger of Michigan.
| LORD TENHYsoS makes u most irritable in
| valid He insists upon having the newspapers
read TO him, and if they represent his condition
as worse than 1t really is, he flies into rage at
once.
PETER Coos is proprietor of German theater
| in Omaha. No matter how bad the perform.
| ance may he Mr.. Coos permits no kissing in his
| theater. He would consider it a personal af-
| front.
Miss ANNIE LIPPINcoTT, daughter OF "Grace
Greenwood has secured an engagement with
| an opera company. and will shortly be heard in
! Chicago Miss Lippincott's voice is said to be a
| remarkably fine and sweet soprano.
| Count HERBERT BISMARCK, the most rising
man of the day in European diplomacy, is the
only new representative Of statecraft who
bears n scar received in battle. He was shot
| through the thigh in the cavalry charge at
| Mars Ia Tour.
SPEAKING of the personal appearance of Lord
TennysOD, Edmund Yates says the laureate is a
| CROSS UeLWeeD u guy rdWheS ana inc mysterious
recuse OF a meodrama. There seems to be
| something in the popular idea of a poets ap-
pearance after all.
MAURICE THOMPSON says there is no more sig
nfcant fact in American life than the sturdy
| hrmneSs Of the fibre in the public judgment
which has refused to accept Mr. James a
representative American novelist, notwithstand-
ing the persistent efforts of the editors.
PHHPPs JACKSON, London art critic, is at
lacking the present system of picture framing
He complains OF the arbitrary surrounding Of
all pictures with a meaningless piece OF gilt
jonery. which only a sense of convention per-
nlits us TO accept in silence. If Mr.. jackson
succeeds he will destroy all the pleasure a large
number OF picture owners have in their art
treasures.
The Crown Prince OF RUSSIA Is described by
a Moscow correspondent as an ordinary young
man, with coarse, black hair, dark complexion,
not over bright kind in disposition, though with
a full appreciation of his own Importance and
fonder of reading than anything else. The
miserable attacks of illness which make his
life a burden at times account for his objection
to society.
Dr.. NANsEN. who has Just crossed Greenland
on snow shoes, is about q years OF age and con
siderably over feet in hight. He is hardy
NorSeman' every inch OF him. He has IA
magnificent breadth Of chest, and well proper
toned figure, which shows to advantage in his
tight-fttinR blue wooden suit. His face is long,
his brow broad, his eyes are blue, and his mus
tache and closely cropped hair fair in color
GEN BooTH, head OF the Salvation Army, has
been devoting himself to the effort of popular
ziing the methods OF his followers IN California.
He has not met with great success. The hood
lums of San Francisco have proved too vigor-
GUS for the saivationists. Booth las had to
place himself at the head Of a charging column
a number of times, but even his heroism has
not been equal to the task of overcoming the
California mobs. Say, Booth, where's Bar
retty' is a favorite Pleasantly among the street
urchins whenever the salvation commander
shows himself in public
A CRANK has come forward in Keysvile, Va,
who claims to have discovered meteorological
omen proving that Benjamin Harris will not
survive his presidential term. 10 showed on
Nov. ~ IN the year when Benjamin Harrison's
grandfather was elected TO the presidency. 10
showed on Nov. ~ in the years wnen Taylor and
Garfield were respectively elected to the highest
office In the land. None of these men lived TO
fulfill his administration AS it showed on Nov
10 this year, the Keysville sage deduces the
conclusion that Benjamin Harrison has not four
years lease Of life All Of which Is nonsense.