The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-16
PERSONAL.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Cardinal Gibbons
will take part in the celebration of the centen-
NAL of Georgetown next February. The exer-
cises will continue three days.
Mrs. HARRISON has not yet arrived at the I'M
enviable distinction which generally appertains
to prominent women IN this country No tobac-
| conist or soapmaker has yet used her picture to
advertise his wares.
Mrs. REnEccA E. ROBERTSON, who died re-
Gently in New York. provided by her will fund
of $500 900 Tor the establishment of q home that
will enable poor families to enjoy summer out
ngs. This is sensible aud practical charity,
The mother OF Clara Louisa Kellogg Stra-
kosch, who always appears in a box when her
daughter MARBLES the stage, is nearly as
youthful in her face aud ways as she was at the
time of the birth of the cantatrce, 46 years ago.
REV WILLIAM RIGHT, an eccentric English
clergyman, has left his fortune TO found a col
lege for young women, in which tine pupils
shall get up early in the morning. take cold
baths and attend quarterly couversaZiones in
which two-thirds OF the persons present shall
be single men,
MRS MONA CARD, who has become known in
connection with the question of the law of mar
riage, has finished new novel. which. under
the title The Wing of Azrae. will be issued
early in 1889. Mrs. Card has already published
two novels pseudonymously. Whom Nature
Leadeth' and zone That Wins" THE Wing
Of Azrael," though not polemcal, deals indi-
rectly with the question raised in the recent
FRIENDS tel me- says a writer in the New
York Star, that Mrs. Langtry is terribly worried
over the fact that crows feet have begun to ap-
pear under her beautiful eyes and that there are
other indications that her charms are beginning
10 fade. When it is remembered that the Lily
was q mature woman before she went on the
stage, this will not be wondered at. She is gets
ting stout now, and rather natronly; besides,
late hours aud the innumerable mild aud other
designations incident to the theatrical profess
sion, will tell on even the most charming COM
plexon and the most robust constitution in
time.
NERVOUSNESS is said TO be a characteristic Of
Chief Justice Fuller. He seems TO find it i'm
possible TO sit still upon the bench. his hands
are constantly in motion at one thing or the
other. Often he takes scrap of paper and
folds and refolds IL into a thousand shapes; or
he turns over the pages of book without look
ing al them. But as usual thing he is pulling
at his mustache like a nervous graduate on
commencement day. First his left hand twists
and pulls little at his LETT hirsute; and then
the right, not to be outdone in caressing. per.
forms like office for the long gray hairs on
the other side of the nervous mans mouth.
THIS 10 a sample Of Russian descriptions OF
the cars recent railroad smash-up: but our
Gar, our emperor, what a man, and what a
golden heartl All those saved testify how
under pouring rain, knee deep in the cold
mud bleeding terribly from both arms aud
hands, he helped personally TO rescue the dying
and the wounded for over two hours, his col
ossal strength doing him good service on that
day They tell how he spoke words of consola-
ton to those sufferers still alive, pledging his
word OF honor 10 the dying TO care for their
families as long as they lived A priest was
fetched in hurry from an adjacent village, all
the survivors clamored loudly, "A mass,
Thanksgiving service for the escape of our
father. the car No. cried the emperor in a
laundering voice the mass fer the dead, first
OF all. the prayers for the wounded You
should have seen the whole august family fall.
ing upon their knees in the mud and praying
fervently for the dead and the relief OF the
wounded, before ever giving thought Of
thanks for their own escape, and praying for
the salvation of Russia, not for their own"