The morning news., 1888-06-21
PERSONAL.

EVERYBODY who visits Chauncey NJ.
Depew's beautiful country home at Peekskill.
on-the- Hudson wonders what the man wants To
be President for.
A CORRESPONDENT says that Samuel ]. Ran
dali has young son known as Little Sam
Randall, " who wears glasses and closely resem-
bles his father. 1t is added also, that the youth
is as fat as butter and as sharp as tack.
PROF. MARIA MITCHELL, who has been offered
q home in Vassar college, free of cost, for the
rest of her life. will, if she accepts the same,
prove conclusivey that she has no desire for a
quiet life. The girls there ''cut up terribly
sometimes, it is said.
beaux by singing DO They Miss Me at Home?''
will be Interested to know that Miss Caroline A.
Briggs, who composed the verses, is now Mrs.
Charles Mason, of Fitchburg, Mass. The song
was first published forty years ago.
AMONG the beauties Of the Pacific coast Nine.
Olarovsky, wife of the Russian consul, takes
high rank. She is a tall, slender blonde, and
her features are delicate and refined. She has a
slender white throat, supporting a head of
exquisite proportions, and her taste in dress is
pronounced perfect.
In an article on pretty shoulders. a San Fran.
cisco society writer says that Miss Jennie Flood,
daughter of the banker has q remarkably pretty
bust and throat, She is more conventional in
her methods of dress and does not stop at half
way measures. Her opera and ball dresses are
soonest diamond necklace of any young lady of
the city
In order to properly perform the stern and ex-
acting duties pertaining to the Office of "Chief
Marshal" at the recent graduating exercises at
Nassar college, the fair occupant OF that posi-
tion wore "a gown of white silk en- traine open
ing over petticoat of gold brocade, and carried
a large bouquet % Marechal Neil roses" The
swish of that white silk train was doubtless
awe-inspiring and kept the girls in excellent
order.
AN amusing story is told of the Rev. Myron
Reed of Colorado, who two years ago ran as the
democratic congressional candidate in that
state 1t seems that during the canvass the
reverend gentlemen was interrupted in the
midst Of public prayer by q man who shouted
Louder Reed stopped short, looked at the
interrupter and said, coOlly: ~ WASH t address
ing you, sir. | was addressing the Almighty" ."
Then he went on with his prayer
LORD JAMES DOUGLASS. who was recently ar.
rested in London on charge of sending indie
cent photographs to alady, was In San Francisco
some years ago His lordship was quite so
ciety pet during his stay. He left an unliquid-
ated wine bill at leading club in the city,
which the gentleman who put up his name had
to pay. The bellies of San Francisco, it is said,
used to go wild over his lordship's delightful
stutter."
IT is only eight years since 300 men stood up
and were counted until the last ballot in the
national republican convention at Chicago
They were the Old Guard Of the Grant political
army, and they held true in their allegiance
when the Garfield hurricane was sweeping
everything before it. What changes these last
eight years have brought. Grant is dead
Logan is dead, Conkling Is dead, and only
twenty-siX Of the famous SOC are delegates to
the republican national convention OF this year
They are William Youngblood, d. w Cooper
aud j. NJ Thompson OF Alabama; Powell Clay
ton and Fred Hayes of Arkansas; Glenn Stude
baker Of Indiana; w. Q. Bradley and Logan
Mckee of kentucky; William Pitt Kellogg
James Lewis and David Turny of Lousiana
William W. johnson OF Maryland; Chauncey l.
Filley and John Pohlman of Missouri: Thomas
c. Platt, stephen Is. French, John d. lawson,
John j. o. O'Bren, Jacob NJ. Patterson and David
Wilbur Of New York. Mathew S. Quay and
Meyers and W. ~ Taft Of South Carolina; L. c.
Houk Of Tennessee, and Webster Flanagan Of
Texas.