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

Ex-CoNGREssMAN NJ. C. GEORGE of Portland.
Ore, is the latest discovered double of President
Harrison.
NJ. DE LEssEPs has just entered upon his S4th
year. and seems to lose none of his eXtraordi-
nary physical vigor.
WESTINGHOUSE, the inventor, who has made
IS, 900 out of his air brakes, once offered to
sell it outright for $4,000.
Miss TITIENs niece of the famous singer has
gone from California to live in England per-
manently. She is but II, but she is tall and
stately" and decidedly pretty, and she promises
well to become fine singer.
WHO says Washington IL not swellY Reflect
carefully on the foil wing item: Miss Bancroft,
granddaughter of the historian, is organizing a
dancing class for the winter. 1t is to be con-
fined solely TO young ladies who have ball rooms
attached TO their residences"
KALAKAUA, King of the Sandwich Islands,
will visit this country in the spring. Kalakaua
is now 81 years of age, and cannot stand quite
as much sociability as he could when he was
here before, but il is said that there is life
enough in the old man yet to add a vermillion
tint to this town when he reaches here. He is
anxious TO get away from the cares OF royalty,
the pressure of literary work and, be it whis-
pered, Queen Kapiolani.
JACQUES MEYER, banker of Paris, specialized
too rashly. and in order to cover his losses, de
voted himself more theoretically than ever to
play" He has fled. Among his largest credi-
tors are Nine. Jane Hading, the actress, who
had sent him $4,000 quite recently from
America. Nine Hading's mother had also de-
posted a considerable sum with him. His de
ficit amounts to over 4,0000 900 francs. Ten
years ago he was reporter at sous line on
an ephemeral newspaper. and at the same time
canvasser for financial advertisements.
Mrs. JAMES q. BLAINE. Jr., has been much
annoyed by various unwarranted reports which
have been in circulation of late to the effect that
she recently gave n breakfast in Boston TO
young Sothern, the comedian. The story was an
absurd one, Mrs. Blaine. as is well known, has
been very Ill, and is still far from strong. The
origin OF the fiction lay in the fact that her hus.
band entertained Mr.. Sothern at breakfast at
the Hub. Another report that she was in Chi
cago few days ago had the same foundation.
James q. Blaine Jr., not his wife, Is travelling
about and enjoying life.
SENAToR-ELEcr JOHN G. BARBOUR Of Virginia,
when he takes his seat next March as Riddle
berger's successor, will be one of the noticeable
man in the Senate chamber. He was in New
York day or two ago, and as he walked along
crowded Broadway men turned for a second
glance at the straight, ruddy-faced, brighteyed
and white-haired gentleman VINO had all the
bearing OF an old-time Virginia planter. Bar
bour is not only a good-looking man. but he is
mentally a strong man. just after the war
closed he bent his energies toward the building
up and restoring the wasted and abandoned
railroad system of his native state, and in a
few years was at the head of the Midland line,
which runs through the battlefelds Of Central
Virginia. He made money and he needed IL,
for the war had left him almost penniless.
When be had grown rich, be took broad part
in the poltice Of his state and to him is largely
due the defeats that have swept Malone from
power in Virginia. MIR. Barbour will not be an
eloquent senator, but he will be n braIny one.
Col Delaney KANE who is spoken of as the
probable successor Of Ward McAliister rs gen
eral master workman of the -Four Hundred. is
pudgy little man, who would, IL has been said,
look like coachman did he not wear such
good Clothes Mr.. McAllister retres tenn
porarily on account Of the death of his brother,
Hall McAllister, of San Francisco. Mr.. Kane is
generally voted good fellow in spite Of the
insignificance of his personal appearance. He
Is short, inclined to be rotund, has brown eyes
and closely trimmed brown whiskers For years
he was n familiar figure 10 the loungers on up
per Fifth avenue, as. seated by his wife on the
box seat of his coach, be fooled his fourth hand
from the Brunswick to Pelham or New Rochelle,
rain or shine, snow, blow, sleet or freeze. Col.