The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-12
PERSONAL.

JOHN W. WATSON, the principal author of
Beautiful Snow" is brakeman on the New
York elevated railroad at salary of SO a week
Thus the whLrligig Of time brings in its re-
venges.
Hon. NATHANIEL SHIPMAN has declined the
Connecticut chief justiceship offered to him by
Gov. Bulkeley. He is now United states district
judge, a life position, with half pay pension on
retirement.
HERR Won BuLow will arrive in this country
toward the last of March. He will conduct a
few orchestral concerts and give sixteen piano
recitals. His manager is evidently proceeding
upon the mistaken assumption that Americans
want but little Herr Bulow.
EDWARD LLOYD, the great English tenor, is a
cricket enthusiast. His grandfather was band
master of the Coldstream Guards his father
and mother were musicians OF high rank and
his son is being trained in the same artistic call
ing, with every prospect of success
JOSEPH REAGAN bases his claim for the post
masterShip of Sheldon, la, upon the grounds
that he was a soldier in Gen. Harrison's regi-
ment and that he weighs 400 pounds, and can
bold the office down. The latter consideration
should have weight in blizzard region.
MRS. NELLIE GOODWILL of Detroit is suing an
aged millionaire named Fisher for $50. O16 for
alleged breach of promise The lady kept a
boarding house and Fisher was one Of her board
ers and upon this fact he will doubtless largely
rely to convince the jury Of the absurdity of
the plaintiff claim
Mas NJ A. PERRY, well-known lady Of Den
Yer, dreamed in 1864 that No. % would be the
lucky number in a rattle for q house and lot
Three hundred tickets were sold at $40 each
Mrs. Perry bought No. %, which actually won
the prize. She has held the property ever since,
and the other day sold 1t for $4,000.
JOHN D. RocKEFELLER writes to the Rev. F. T.
Gates that he will contribute 100000 TO the
American Baptist Education Society, PAYABLE
as required for its contributions TO educational
work in the United States; providing such con.
frlDntinna IRA mt hot ~
during each month, beginning with March and
ending with December next.
ARLo BATES, in The Book Buyer, quotes the
following dialogue as having taken place be-
tween Wendell Phillips and Tomas G. Appleton
when they were young and brieiess lawyers,
rich, and too arstocratic to attract business.
one day Appleton asked Phillips if he had any
clients yet Not a client" was the reply.
to hold onS I'm getting pretty tired of it my.
SET II think I'll try 1t six months longer
Phillips is said to have answered and if don't
get start by that time l shall take up a
cause"
GEN. SHERMAN was once a patient of DR.. Bliss.
who died the other day in Washington. The
doctor had been treating him TO- some time for
some slight but troublesome d. order and had
given rim several different kiLds of medicine,
when cue day on making bis regular call the
be getting any better for all of your medicine "
well, general" replied the doctor, loosely,
perhaps you had better take ShakeSpeareS adj
vice and throw physic to the dogs" II would,
doctor, replied the sick man as he turned his
head on the pillow. II would, but there are q
number Of valuable dogs in the neighborhood
and don't want to kill EN- OIL"
LA REvoLrE," the anarchist organ OF which
Prince Krapotkine is editor, is a little sheet,
about the size of an ordinary prospectus and is
published in a sixth story in one of the worst
quarters of Paris Elisee Reclus is one of its
main supporters, and a broken down workman
is the ostensihle printer. This wretched leanet,
which used some ten years ago to be published
at Vienna, has larger number of correspond.
ents than many q more pretentious journal. IL
gets more news from Spain and Italy than
from anywhere else, but from the Cape of Good
Hope TO the Argentine Republic there is hardly
y ace without circle with which II is in com
muncaton. Whatever be the fashion of other
journals, Il is hardly necessary TO add that its
polyglot contributors hold fast TO the old tradi-
ton OF anonymity.