The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-23
PERSONAL.

SENATOR EDMUNDs of Vermont has served
longer in the United States senate than any of
his colleagues On April 5, 1890, he will have
been in the senate without a single break "a
years. Mr.. EdmundS will be 62 in February
He looks his age.
QUEEN VICTORIA lately gave her consent to
the abolition of number of useless court aD-
polntments, including the maStership of the
buckhounds, but Lord Salisbury declined to
make the sweeping changes involved because he
needed the patronage to keep his party friends
together in the House of Lords
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES will not follow
in the footsteps of Tennyson and Browning and
publish volume of poems in his old age He
has not given up his literary pursuits but it is
said that he now destroys whatever he writes.
This Is modest but not wise. His muse is still
young, whatever may be his age
HADU HAssEIN KHooLY KHAN, late Persian
minister to this country returned to Teheran
with the shah. The latter was anxious to have
Hassein return to Washington, but the sensitive
victim Of American humor boldly refused to
obey the behest of the king of kings This
country is now pegging along without Persian
minister
JAMES s. T. STRANAHAN of BROOKLYN seems
likely to enjoy the unique distinction of living
TO see statue erected in his honor. His name
is intimately identified with numerous impor
tant public works, and movement has begun
for the erection of his statue in Prospect park
Brooklyn's aproximity to New York, however
may prove fatal to the project.
CHAUNcEY DEPEw, mindful OF he fate of the
average humoriSt, says that he made his first
great mistake when he delivered his first funny
speech, He didn't see it then, but now he real
ICES 1t keenly. Instead of being regarded as a
convincing logician or good lawyer or even
as serious thinker, he is always taken for a
funny man. That is a melancholy truth. When
he posed as presidential candidate and later
when he pretended that New York wanted the
worlds fair, the public persisted in considering
these two of his best jokes.
WITH THE DEATH of the Rev. Melancthon b
Williams at Cambridge, N. Y. recently, the
Oldest living graduate of Princeton college
passed away, and the Hon. John Berkeley
Grimball of Charleston, S. c., graduate of the
class OF 1919, now becomes the oldest living
alumnus of Princeton. Mr.. Williams was q
member of the class of 1874, and among his
college-mates were three governors. one United
States senator Richard II. Rayard of Della
wares two college presidents, one of them ex.
President Maclean of Princeton, aud a number
of congressman. At the time of his death MIR
Williams was probably the oldest living college
graduate in the United States. II is a curious
TACT that, up to last year, the three Oldest cler
gymen of the Episcopal church in this country
were graduates of this Presbyterian college, all
being at Princeton at the same time with
Bishop Johns and Bishop McIlvaine. A refer
ence 10 the oldest living graduate, who is
becoming more numerous as the decades 90
by, would be Incomplete without mentioning
the fact that the oldest living alumnus of
Harvard is the venerable George Bancroft, who
took his degree of Baccalaureus Arthur from
that university in 1919.