The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-27
PERSONAL.

BUFFALO BILL contemplates taking his wild
west show to India. Certain Indian potentates
who visited Paris this summer advised him to
do so.
Mrs. GEORGE BANCROFT, a remarkably close
observer, once said she never knew an English
man, however eminent in art science, who
if he had di ed with duke, could help men
tioning the fact to all his acquaintance.
EDWARD r. ADAMS, president of the Jersey
Central Railroad Company, having more trop-
ical plants than his greenhouses would hold, has
distributed them to $50 school children, who
will hold a competitive flower show next year.
BARON WHITEHEAD the late lord mayor of
London, began life as a commercial traveller,
and the present lord mayor, Sir Henry Isaacs
was at one time in his early career an operate
singer He has baritone voice, is an excellent
musician, and still sings capital song, partic-
ulGrly in the evening, when the company is CON
genial
WHEN GUzMAN BLANco ruled in Venezuela,
although he was neither king nor emperor, he
had five life-szed statues of himself erected in
Caracas and upon each he caused the following
inscription to be placed: ITO that illustrious
American the pacificator and regeneration of
the United States of Venezuela. Gen. Guzman
Blanco."
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is the first woman to
carry o Tosca cane in New York. The cane is
made of light wood; is about five feet long, and
has chased silver top. A few inches from the
top hole is drilled through the wood, and this
is decorated with light silk cord and tasSel
Tosca canes used in the mountains as alpen.
stocks have an excuse for being, but in the
streets of a city they can hardly be considered
a necessity.
MARIA MAYO, who was the leading belle of
Richm md Va, had 100 suitors, and refused
ninety nine of them before accepting Gen. Win
field Scott He had courted Miss Mayo when
he was q young lawyer. After entering the
army he continued his addresses. and was re-
fused successfully as Capt. Scott and Col Scott
and 1t was only as Gen. Scott, the hero of
Lundy's Lane that he at last won the hand of
the much admired belle.
LITTLE 12-YEAR OLD OTTO HEGNER is so pretty
a sight in his dark costume, set off with point
lace collar and cuffs, that one is sometime s
prone to forget that the little man has very
active mind under his bushy locks. When the
band had finished their rehearsal for one night &
concert in London. Otto asked the conductor O
thank them for him. Mr.. Mount, however
thought that a few words from the ''prodigy''
would be more valued. SO the little fellow turned
and said. with quiet grace: Thank you very
much for accompanying me" and then added
with artful significance, 'and mind you play
piano tomorrow"
PERE PAMPHILE DE VEUsTER, the brother of
Father Damien, is now making a tour of the
world for the purpose of erecting memorial
to the heroic leper priest in the shape of an in
stitution for the purpose Of training mission.
aries for work among the lepers-an institution
which will not only prepare courageous men so
as TO TT them to administer to the spiritual
wants of the abandoned lepers, but also teach
methods OF alternating their bodily ills Other
admirers Of the APOSTLE of Molokai propose 10
found leper hospital for the special purpose of
treating leprosy, With a view of making a
closer study of the terEIble disease in hope of
discovering remedy a rinst its ravages