The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-09
Personal.

MARY ANDERSON is said to partake of a
"snothered venus every afternoon at 3 O'Clock
a "Smot cred venus" is a beefsteak fried with
onions. 1t is delciously uoothsome, but odor-
| iferously potential.
HAWKINS, the colored presidential coachman
who has been on the box since Grants time
has already been commissioned by President
Harrison 10 hold the reins over his splendid
span OF hoosier bays.
ISAAC COHEN sued Lena Broner IN New York
court for $4,000 damages for breach of promiss
of marriage He claimed that she courted him
proposed, and was accepted, and then She
Tilted him, and the jury said he told the truth
JUSTICE KELGwIN of JefTersonville, Ind, does
not consider marriage failure. During the
ten years he has acted as magistrate he has
united 2, 97G couples, and of these about 90 per
cent. came from kentucky, most of them bens
runaway matches.
Fx- EX-SENATOR TABOR of Colorado is astonishing
the natives of Manhattan island by his display
of gems. He wears four diamonds, each half
as large as an Eaglish walnut" and is sooken
of by one of the newspapers as the Nightgown
Nabob of the Nevada"
CONGRESSMAN O'NEALL of Indiana recently re-
ferred to colleague as man who always
puts in his oar hae housing owl" Which re-
minds one of the Missouri editor who wrote:
the bitter pill of adversely overlook him and
the pale hand of death stalked in
A WAsHrNGroN REPORTER asserts that he
called on Elliott +. Shepard at the Arlington
hotel, Washln -ton, a day or two ago, and
found the unique editor cutting paragraphs out
OF the Bible for the Mail and Express and
having them telegraphed TO New York.
NINE. MuTsU, wife of the Japanese minister
at Washington, has made 200 social calls
since the season began. Last spring she could
not speak word OF English Now she is a good
conversationast in our tongue, and can retail
the gossip Of the diplomatic circle with the best
of EN-.
PRINCE RUDOLF was addicted TO remarkable
- g
being mixture of champagne and coguac a
connection calculated TO suatter the nerves and
adde the brain of Hercules. OF this com.
pound be is said to have absorbed great quaint.
ties in a day, and his conduct on several mem.
orable occasions attests the potency of his pecu-
liar tpple
Mrs. JAMES X. Polk, in some chatty reminis
cenceS of her husbands inauguration, has this
TO say concerning a newspaper statement that
at Gen. Jackson's inaugural ball the ladies wore
calico dresses without any flowers: Now that
Is an absurdity, 1t is quite too ridiculous for
anything. Tie ladies' OF that date dressed as
richly and becOmingly as the ladies of the pres
ent generation. At my own last reception at the
white house wore n gorgeous pink satin from
Paris with point d'Alencon lace, ana IL was this
in the neignborhood last week, and without tie
slightest alteration. have given her several of
those beautiful Paris robes which served me at
the white house, one Of which wore at the in
augural ball, elegant white brocaded silk
which was presented 10 me by Commodore
Kearney Of the navy. And / have seen il stated
that | was dressed on that occasion in a black
dress with a black cloak. The idea is too rldcu.
lous for anything"