The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-07
PERSONAL.

SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR has been given
the name in Washington of THE Silent Man"
HENRI MEN1ER- chocolate manufacturer, has
been made an officer of the French Legion of
Honor.
THOMAS A. EDISON is a Theosophist He is a
member of the Aryan Theosophical Society of
New York city.
ness for chrysanthemums. He always wears
one now i'll his buttonhole.
MISS WooIsoN, the grandniece of Fenimore
Cooper, just now looming up a novelist, is a
realist and an adorer of Turgeneff.
Mr.. JOHN FIELD the new postmaster at Phila-
delphia, was born in Derry county, Ireland, IS
years ago, and came to America at the age
OF ID
RICHARD McMINN and Miss Fannie Lemons
were married the other day by justice of the
peace in cornfield in Boone county, Missouri,
by moonlight. No cards.
INVENTOR EpIsoN's 16-year-o ld-daughter is
said to be almost marvelouSly bright. She is
described fair musician, good draughts-
man, and she speaks four Languages.
Rev PHILLIPS BROOKS, whose fame as pull
pit orator is sometimes said by his admirers to
be world wide, can speak at the rate Of 800
words minute and keep it up for one hour.
GEN DANIEL BUTTERFIELD, who recently saw
in Norway the ship of the Vikings that has
been excavated and set up, says it is of
black oak, about seventy-five feet in length and
in lines quite equal to anything constructed in
these days.
MRS CRAWFORD, the welLknown Paris corre-
spondent of the London Daily Nelcs and of Mr.
Laboucheres Truth, is the only lady member
of the celebrated Golden Club, and one of the
most prominent characters of contemporary
Partisan history.
BuLwER was dandy to the last. He always
wrote in a rich Oriental dressing robe, with
books of reference, notebooks, etc, at hand
During his latter years increasing deafness,
from which he had been a lifelong sufferer
made him withdraw from society, to which he
had once been so devoted, and of which he
had been one of the most brilliant ornaments
But he never ceased to dress with the elegance
of a complete man of the world.
LEWIS CARROLL the author of alice in Won
derland" and ''Thro' the Looking Glass" is
a good-looking, white-haired old gentleman of
over 90 summers. He has worshiped children
all his life. and is never happier than VIII n
accompanied by one or two little dots and
listening to their baby prattle To those of his
small friends whose education is so far ad-
vanced as to permit of their being able to read
he sends quaint notes, conceived in a humorous
strain and written with a typewriter.
MISS AMELIE RrvEs had host Of admirers
when she lived in maiden meditation at the home
of her ancestors, Castle Hill, Virginia. She was
a petted and spoit beauty, and treated her
love with indifference and sometimes with
absolute rudenesS. Once, when dozen gen le-
man called upon her in the morning, she entered
the parlor in a ewitchng riding habit. excused
herself mounted her horse, rode an hour or two,
and finding the gentleman waiting for her on
returning, she went to her studio back of the
parlor and amused herselS by drawing carica-
lures of her admirers, representing them sitting
in various attitudes Of idiotic vacancy That is
such is the story printed by some of the news.
papers; but we must bear in mind that nine
tenths Of such stories are gross exagerations.