The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-08
PERSONA.

THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH declares that
the newspaper reports about the diff rences
between herself and her husband are cruel aud
Infamous.
TIE GARFIELD MONUMENT at Cleveland viii not
be- dedicated before Decoration day. II 10 said
that an admission fee will be charged, perman-
emily, 10 all visitors.
QUEEN VICTORIA lately added codicn to her
will which relates exclusively to the jubilee
gifts the value Of which is very much greater
than most people suppose.
EMPRESS FREDERICK is understood 10 have
made friends with her eldest son. the emperor.
but she failed to receive the stomary Christ
mas present from him. 1t is given out that her
majesty requested him not to send it.
PRINCESS VIRoGNA is severe on the dog
women" as she calls those whom she saw
nursing dogs in New York But then she il
only poor Mohawk Indian. and does not ap-
preciate all the reiinements of civilization.
President DWIGHT of Yale college does bis
writing on an Old fashioned secretary that is
said to have been in the family 20J years and
the pUrit2uiC. straightforward chair ~ which
he sits looks as if 1t had been in the fam ly a.
least century.
GEoRHE ELLIOTT of Baltimore is probably the
oldest 5eronaut in the world He began balloon
ing in 1884 and has made l27 ascents 10 all in
only one of which lie was seriously injured. His
thSt Sas broken :, on this 2ceaasion, and be
old and practices shoemaking.
TIE poet Whittier invariably receives on his
birthday barrel OF pitch pine kindlnys from
Whittier coorei school al Tuscaloosa. Ala.
The kindlings were accompanied This year by
two phOtOgrphS-One of the 200 children com
posing the school and the other of the children
in the act of voting their thanks TO the poet.
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD shares with
Attorney General Garland the unique distinc-
ton OF never having worn dress coat. In
Washington society the question whether he
pi sFaa mn 81 a hall
is second only to that as TO whether Elder Har-
rson will dance to the Presidents quadriue.
Mrs. CLEVELAND has taken to wearing the
Hading veil and she has added to that article
few clever improvements of her own The
heavy cloud OF gauZe which hangs around her
face is gathered in around tne top of her hat
and under her chin The thick screen thus
made is Az etfectual protection against the i'm
pudent gaze OF curious eyes.
"HoNoR thy father and thy mother, that thy
days may be long in the land we're the words
which figured most prominently on a transpar.
ency Just outside the railway depot at BreslAu
on the occasion Of Kaiser Wilhelm's recent visit
TO that city. The young monarch was deeply in
ceused at this strange want of tact on the part
OF the local authorities. He cuose to regard
the transparency as an intentional alluson to
his unihal behavior to his parents, and has
vowed never again TO set his foot in the ancient
capital OF Sllesia.
THE POPE has received nearly 500 requests
from French ecclesiasticS for one of the jubilee
offerings which he announced his intention OF
giving away la most cases the choice OF the
article was left to himself the object of the ap-
phcant3 being merely to secure meinentO OF
the jubilee, however, trihing. The pope will
probably pres mt the costly ivory tabernacle
sent him by the American Catholics TO the
Church Of Our Lady At Lourdes. Over OOl
demands came from Germany. mostly from the
priests Of the poorer parishes and nearly all
asking for one or another Of the objects used in
Catholic worship.