The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-10
PERSONAL.

THE father of Gen Boulanger was a money
lender and among his clients was the Marquis
de CauX, the first husband of Adelina Patti.
NoLA TwIGGs a servant girl of Portland, Ore
has fallen heir to an English fortune of 100000
There will be great rush of the impecunious
to transplant that Twigg,
QUEEN VICTORIA has imported hard-up In
dian prince to teach her Hindustani He is to
receive l.5O0 rupees per mont. for his services,
and the government is asked to foot the bill,
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL S earliest ancestor
in England was Wandlil de Leon, who came
over with the conqueror He was lord of Coun-
Gil IN Normandy, whence the name of Churchill.
INVENTOR EDISON has made new discovery
in electricity Until his first child was born
few days ago he never knew how thoroughly
one small baby can electrify a whole household
at night,
HEROIC treatment saved the Emperor of
Brazil from death Oxygen gas and hypoder-
mic injections of caffeine were used to preserve
the patient from syncope. On one occasion he
took thirty-one grains of caffeine in twenty-one
hours.
GEN. BouLANGER's ENEMIES now accuse him
of the grave offense of getting into the theaters
without paying for his ticket When one con
siders the recent theatrical policy of the brave
general it seems only Just that the theaters
should extend him the rights of professional
courtesy. He is also an actor.
AT the woman suffrage convention at Boston
the other day, Mrs. Wallace, mother of Gen.
Lew Wallace, was a speaker In introducing
her Mrs LivermOre stated that when Gen
Wallace wrote "Ben Hur" he showed it to his
mother first of all persons and told her that he
had taken her the model of the heros for
heroic mother.
A PHILADELPHIA LADY now in London says In
a private letter; Robert Browning and Mrs
Bloomfield Moore are very close friends. Re
Gently at a social gathering at Mrs. Moore's
house the Philadelphia fell on her knees before
the poet and inlplored him to play something
ON, ha mia Mr. Dra fall an L,.
and begged Mrs. Moore TO excuse him and play
something herself. Neither played
THE Russian imperial household has con-
cluded an arrangement with the engineer, VI.
kozell, regarding the great irrigation works
which are to be carried out in the extensive
territories in the Murghab valley which have
been acquired by the car. NJ. Kozell, who is
of Polish origin, was, in 1883, the commander of
an insurgent battalion Of his countrymen. He
was taken prisoner by the Russians and sen
fenced to death, but succeeded in making his
escape 20 France, where he subsequently car
ried out several important engineering works.
After the war in 1Si0-'71, in which he fought
against the Germans, he returned to Russia,
and as a punishment for his former rebellious
conduct he had to serve as a private in Cos
sack regiment for four years.
THE WIFE of Gen. r. A. Alger Of Michigan.
who has been in New York recently with her
husband, is much averSe to his political ambi-
ton. She is a home woman, gentle and refined,
with a group of boys and girls growing up
around her in whose welfare she takes her great
delight. She has a positive horror of politics.
which she does not hesitate TO express EN-
phatcally, but with the gentleness of gentle
woman, on every proper occasion. one Of her
objections 70 politics is the invasion of home by
the press that accompanies candidacy for pub
lie Office. She shrinks from the notoriety, pub
Lefty and gossip about home life that follow the
nomination of q citizen TO any high Office. Yet
she is 10y ally anxious for her husbands success
in any Undertaking, eitcer in politics or bust
ness, and with her gentle and winniqg ways is
no small factor in his popularity. MIS- Alger is
rather petite in figure, so young looking that il
is difficult to imagine her the mother of three
boys and three girls one of the latter woman
grown and married. She is warm friend of
Mrs. Gen. Logan. although in personality they
are in strong contrast. Mrs Logan was as am.
bilious as her husband, or even more so. If Gen
Alger should become the occupant OF the white
house. Mrs Alger would add to the fame Of the
women who have presided there.