The morning news., 1889-03-29
PERSONAL.

SIR RICHARD WEBSTER, the British attorney
general, is noted for the b .auty of his singing
voice, and is in great request at all social enter
tainments
Gov. MELI.ErrE, who succeeds Gov. Church
OF Dakota, frankly saws that he will run things
there with view TO keeping the new state sol
idly republican.
PROF. DAVID SWING of Chicago preserves all
OF his primitive habits, going TO bed at 10 O'Clock
usually and rising at or $50. He sscribes his
health to this habit and to simple diet.
Mr.. PALMER, Mr. Belmont's successor as min
lister to Spain, will be able to talk Spanish to
Queen Christina. as the ex-senator is prof.
cient student of the language of the Don.
MRS. BLAINE has been invited by the managers
of the Garfield hospital TO become one of the
leading patronesseS of the afternoon teas which
are to be given this week in aid of the hospital
fund.
ExSECRETARy LAMONT has been elected presi-
dent of the Houston, West Street and Pavonia
Ferry Railroad Company of New York COM
monty known as the Avenue Q line. His salary
will be $4,000 per year.
THE LATE SAMUEL CARTER HALL, the English
author is believed to have been the only for
eigner who was ever mistaken for the poet
Longfellow. In size. build aud general appear
ance he was the exact image of the dead poet
PRINCE BISMARCK spends a great deal of time
of late in the Napoleonic practice of playing
solitaire with cards He claims that the game
quiets his nerves, which have given him good
deal OF trouble since he gave up brandy and
tobacco.
HAVING lost several precious stones in South
America du ing her previous trip to that cOuu-
try, Mime. Patti did not take ler jewelry along
tins time. While sha Is singing to crowded
houses in Brazil and elsewhere her ornaments
are resting securely in the vaults Of great
London bank.
Phil ARMoUR's wealth is estimated at S25,-
000,O0) He is stout and pudGy, with bow legs
I'M iPFh IC fan On 10 IN b flra
full moon, frnged by yellow English cut side
whiskers. He ascribes his success to good
memory, and is said to carry all the details of
his enormous meat packing business in his
head.
SUSAN LA FLEscHE, an Omaha Indian girl,
graduate in 1886 at the school for her people at
Hampton, Va. Since then she mas been assisted
by the Connecticut Indian As ,iation, and last
week she was among the graduates of the
Womans medical college of Philadelphia. She
will stand among her people as their first
woman physician.
AT the Erwin-Davis sale of pictures in New
York, Theodore Rousseau's Landscape and
Trees" brought S6,250. Potter Palmer pur-
chased beautiful example of George Innes
THE Sunset" for s., $50, and collector who
was too fashionable to disclose his identity,
paid l,700 for Carrots Coliseum" " The entire
collection, numbering Seventy-one in all, was
disposed offor $4,000.
AMELIA b. EDWARDS, the novelist is engaged
in making selections for the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts from hundred tons OF SCULPTURE
from Bubastis which recently reached Liver.
pool, England. One selection which is soon TO
be forwarded to Boston is a colossal head of
Hathor in excellent condition II is said to To
OF greater weight than the entire colossus of
Raneses IT, Boston is delighted st the pros
pect Of obtaining another old relic with nothing
to recommend it but its age
A New YORKER who has just returned from
the capital says that it is absurd to talk about
Mr.. Blaine's iniirm health. II was walking up
Fifteenth street few afternoons since, when
right in front of me a gentleman whose APP
pearance thought was familiar. He was walk
ing with firm, decided step his shoulders well
thrown back and everything about him indicated
a healthy, wel-satisfied man. II was Mr. Blaine.
His eyes are clear, his complexion good although
he is somewhat pale, and he Is beyond doubt
fully equal to the responsibilities OF his high
Office
RENIER CHALoN, who has just died. was the
originator OF one of the greatest boaxes of the
nineteenth century. About fifty years ago,
biblio-mauiacs were set crazy by the issuing of
catalogues announcing the sale OF the library of
the Count de Fortsas Nearly every book named
in the catalogue was rare and valuable one,
and some of them would have been almost
priceless. IL was not until the day named for
the sale had nearly arrived that 1t was discov-
cred that the whole thing was a sell devised by
Chalon. There was no Count de FortSas, nor
any library To be sold.