The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-14
PERSONAL.

Gov BIicKNER of Kentucky, has a poor
opinion of theIegisature of his own State. He
has astonished the members by sending in five
vetoeS in four days.
Hon E. G.. NoRTHRoP, the pioneer of village
improvements in Connecticut, goes to California
this month 10 lecture on his favorte topic to the
residents of the Pacific slope.
SENATOR GEORGE HEARST will soon send East
a string of twelve California ace-horses to make
the grand racing circuit. Their first appearance
will probably be at Louisville.
IT IS ESTIMATED that in order to be able to
wear all his decorations and orders at one time,
Prince bismarck would require breast thirty
feet in breadth Their weight amounts to little
over forty pounds.
THE King of Portugal, owing to llhealth. was
unable to attend the recent Patti concerts in
Lisbon. lie sat III his palace, however. with a
telephone at his ear, heard the great diva is she
sang in the San Carlos rheater, and seemed to
enjoy the entertainment.
TIE engagement is announced of Miss Grace
second daughter of Justice Stanley Matthew'S
of the United States Supreme Court and Harlan
Cleveland of Kentucky, nephew and private
secretary of Justice John VI. Harlan, of the
United States Supreme Court
ANTHONY CHABor, a philanthropist of Oak
land, Cal, who endowed many charities de-
clined to establish a home for INDECENT old men,
upon the ground that n man generally owed his
Indulgence to lazineSs or bad habits He gener-
ously enriched charities for women and chill
dren, however.
DIR. ASA GRAY had considerable fund of
humor. One summer not long ago he was with
his pupils looking at the Babylonian willows in
the Botanical Gardens. The willows were very
small, and Or. Gray, regarding them critically
for moment, remarked: We'll, all | have to
say is that if the children of Israel hung their
harps on the willows of Babylon when they sat
down to weep, as the Scriptures tell us, then
they must have been jewsharps."
DONALD FLETCHER, who has Just been elected
President of the Denver (Col) Chamber of Com
mer.e reached that city nine years ago, almost
dead with consumption, and with only S. in his
pocket He applied for position as section
hand on the Rio Grande railroad, but was given
a clerkshp in the Office of that company at a
salary of S15 month. He is one of the
weathieSt men in Denver, and enjoys robust
health His money was made in real estate.
THE Crowleys are looming up as the most
noted family in the country. The papers report
a cashier nanled Crowley as having skipped to
Canada a Chief of Police Crowley has gone to
San Francisco to capture gang of burglars a
Dennis Crowley got knocked out In a prize fight,
and Mr.. Crowley the pet Chmpanzee, who had
been claimed as the first Prohibitionist Of his
tribe, has succumbed to the seductive milk
punch, and is recovering from an attack of
pneumonia.
SoUTHERNERs who have come TO New York
within three or four weeks, says the New York
Tribune have shown Partially for the comic
opera Of "Erminien that was for time unac-
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is their special desire to see and hear Miss Kitty
Cheatham. who Is in the cast in a prominent
role and has several times essayed the title role
when Miss Pauline Hall has been ILL., Miss
Cheatham is the daughter Of n prominent Ten
nessee man. who was &C one time member of
the Legislature. GEN b. f. Cheatham, the Con
federate officer. was her uncle. He died last
year while serving as postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn, under President Cleveland.
MMk MoDJEsKA has no idea Of retiring from
the stage IA spite Of rumors and newspaper
reports 10 the contrary What she does say is
that she is making her last tour Of the United
States, and that is a very different thing. No
more roaming about the country and playing
In one night towns even though she has a
special car az her service and S2,OOOa week for
pin money and ~ ceteras. She has a faScinat
ing way Of telling a New Yorker that she loves
this city aud viii never retire from the New
York stage Her English is very nearly perfect,
AZ every body knows, nut she evidently lost con
| hdence In ii one day. for she asked gentleman
hshe was talking with what Il was ~ have tine
blues. "Oh be said with apparent serious
nese, you in@an tbe jim jams What was
bis horror some time after when he overheard
her telling some oBa. 10 the course 81 CONVERSE
lou, that hige was feeling very badly. Tor she
: had TIE Jim jams terribly"