The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-30
PERSONAL.

JONI G WHITTIER is disposed 20 discourage
the proposal to raise fund for purchasing the
poet early home for preservation
r. b. BROWNING, son of Robert Browning, the
poet, will soon visit Boston. The Browning en-
thusiasts in that city are unable to sleep nights
from excitement
JOHN ARNITAGE who is in Jail in Pittsburg on
4 charge OF forgery is not only an accomplished
penman, but an artist of decided ability Tie
does pen sketches with India ink which are said
to equal the finest etcnings.
The estate of Thaddeus Stevens, consisting Of
LOO acres of valuable timber and mining land
in Franklin and Adams counties, Pennsylvania
has been sod TO syndicate. and its resources
Will be developed Immediately.
Mrs JANET y. BALDWIN OF San Francisco
who Is in Washington 10 press her claim for in
demnity from the Mexican government for the
murder Of her husband by Bernal the bandit is
a grand laughter of Francis Scot Key, author of
the 'Star-Spangled BANNER
Mas HELEN W. COUGAR has developed the
most elaborate case of MugWumpery on record
She says that in Kansas and Iowa she is Re
publican, IN Georgia Democrat, in Indiana q
third party PrOhihitioniSt. aud ia religious mat
tris She IS an admirer Of Charles Bradaugh, the
English atheist orator.
THE REV. JOHN T. PAXTON. an eminent New
York divine. places on record the assertion that
"a fanatic loose in any community is worse
pest than loose mad dog or an epidemic of
typhuS fever. The mad dog can be speedily
killed the fever can be quHrautined, but who
can quarantine afanatic who is possessed with
the idea that all the world is wrong and he was
born TO set it right"
Another MAN see frequently in Washington.
says a correspondent, is IS years old, but he
carries himself as straight as any man of 30
and he walks with spring like that of bow
He sits straight up in the car and his white hair
and Snow-wnite beard shine out under a brown
derby hat. His eyes are of tine bluest and his
Tim, rosy race shines with culture and he looks
like noOleman. He is uniformly polite to all
and he never sits while u lady is standing
though the lady he a girl in her teens | have
seen him help lame men into the cars, and he
Jumps TO the assistance of the weakly before
any one else notices their distress. Still, there
Is probably not greater aristoCrlt in the cOun-
try than he, and his name is Joseph e. john
ston, the great Confederate General.
An elderly lady Of good family now living in
New York, but who was born IN Wooster. O.
where Senator Allison, Of Iowa, went to school.
recently said OF the latter: He never wore any
suspenderS, aud was always hitching IN his
trousers after the fashion OF a sailor But we
girls were afraid of him sometimes as he would
secretc himself behind tree or dry goods box
and run after US as went along, and if by
chance he suCcee led in catching one OF us il
meant that the girl would surely get kissed
This we all detested,' added the lady navelv.
"as he had such horrible tobacco-laden breath
] believe that hoy chewed to lacco as soon as
his swaddtng clothes were exchanged for those
moro bedtting to his sex He seemed 10 think
however, he was comforting great honor on us
by trying to kiss u.s.
CHARLES +. SPRAGUE, the head and front of
Volapuk in New York, has remarkable
faculty for acquiring languages. He speaks all
tn modern ton CUES and reads the ancient ones
He says he can master any language In sixteen
days This fact might 10 ID one to zInpUSe that
he was either German or Russian By immediate
descent, IL not BOTH but he is pure American
away back ever so far. Some OF his rugged
American ancestry figured In the revolutionary
Mr. "a I a frranRful Vsrt all
as a remarkable linguist. His literary stvle is
marked ny great simplicity aud beauty He was
IN the army under command of Gen Daniel
things about army life but was too modest 10
put mis- name 20 some of them. In appearance
Mr. Sprague Is tall, slight and serious looking.
His wife is very pretty aud much loved by a
large circle of friends They have two little
daughters and live IN the Rensselaer, Mrs
sprague receives hel' friends every Monday
altcrHQOn.