The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-09
PERSON AL.

MISS LINCOLN, daughter of the minister to
England, Robert Lincoln, has become an ac-
knowledged belle in London.
JAMES WHITcoMB RILEY has been somewhat
i'll all summer and has not done much literary
work, but says he is now almost as good as
new"
THE SHAH OF PERSIA asserts that the Kohinoor
is an unlucky jewel. He points to the fact that
Queen Victoria lost her husband soon after com
ing into possession of the famous stone
FRS. OLE BULL has had a fine music room
constructed IN her house in Boston. The room
is lined with teak, and its acoustic properties
are said to be something extraordinary.
A LARGE NUMBER of famous men were once
book agents. Among them were George Wash
ington, Longfellow, Bret HART. jaw Gould. ey.
President Hayes, Daniel Webster Gen. Grant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Prince Bismarck,
THE visit of the Emperor William to England
resulted in full and complete family recon
clnation' an h. IS now on the best possible
terms with all his relatives The Prince of
Wales has romised to visit the emperor at thu
end OF next month.
happy in her convent home. She has taken no
vow, and it is Thought that she Will ultimatelv
retur to the world. She had for a long time
followed conventional rules in her daily life,
hence these cannot be irkSome to her
THE QUEEN OF CoREA Is no fipurehead Sbo
eStablls lmeut of her own inside the nalace
grounds. The queen dresses, of course in
Cor an costume. She carries chate aine
watch which is '.iamond-studded and smokes
American cigarettes by the thousand
THE KING AND QUEEN OF GREECE have seror
children, the youngest year old Tne Princess
Alexandra is very pretty girl of ~ Tbs
queen is fond of American literature. takes all
the magazines and adores the works of Haw
thorne All the children speak French. English
Greek and Russian.
you've NAPOLEON IVES was bothered abop,
the size and shape of his foot bein very vain
OF his personal appearance. He had a peculiar
shoe with an excessively long cloth ton and
very hlSh arch made especially to conceal its
ugliness. He wore the most EXPENSIVE clotbeS
and insisted on his clerks doing the same
HERMAN MELVILLE, who, more than for+v
years ago Charmed oil lovers of the wild ana
picturesque III writing, is still living in New
YORK, although he has not written anvthjnT for
thlrty years His hair is now white as snow,
D II ms eyes are still as bright as when he wr,te
"rypee, "Omoo, White Jacket and otber
romances of the South sea.
MANY YEARS AGO Whitelaw Reid once want
out tor stroll Ia short. tight fitting yelvatean
jacket. AS luck would have it, Sarony spIed
photograph taken, Mr.. Reid consented Ia
never wore the jacket again. But the nboto
graph fell into the ha IDS OF a popular corica.
turist: aud from that day TO this, whenever Mr.
made mr.
the old long discarded jacket
The WOMEN OF ILLINOIS are determined that
their sex shall not be ignored in the comins
c-leoration Of the landing of Columbus. So
they have Incorporated a company of women
who will undertake the work of erecting
statue Of Qu-en isabella of Spain, who made
TIE ssiiinS Of the Pnta, the Nina and the santa
nara possible, and VINO, though a woman. was
the only person 10 Europe at that time with
brains enough 20 see the force OF Columbus'
theory. .IAe statue is to be unveiled in 1872
ana the incorporators are r. Lula Hoinss,
Smlth, Catharine V. Waite and DR.. Fanny Dick