The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-15
PERSONAL.

MRS SHAW the American whistler, has lately
had photograph OF herself taken in London
for exhibition 1t is over nine feet high aud is
probably the largest ever printed
JOHN MOST has discarded his flaming necktie
and trimmed down his wild anarchistic beard
A suspended sentence to the isla d hangs over
him, and he is conducting himself with con-
sentative discretion.
Mrs AMELIE RIvES CHAMBER made 3d. 600
last year by her writings She, however, has
developed a stronger love for art than for litera
ture and is now working as hard as any poor
artist IN the ateliers of Paris.
EBEN f. RExFoRD, writer of ''Sver Threads
Among the Gold'' and much current newspaper
poetry, gets $500 a year from the LADIES'
Home Journal for column a mo 18th on flowers
The golden rod is one of mis- favorite topics.
ROBERT BONNER once paid Tennyson S., 900
for poem which made only twenty lines in the
New York Ledger. This was at the rate of $3.50
a line, which is a price that would seem almost
beyond the value Of any written production.
THE New York Morning Journal says that
ex-aegister John Reilly laughs at the report
that he is to be a candidate for congress in Sun
8 0,000 for $4,000 seat in congress?" is the
bu iness-like query made by Mr. Reilly.
MISS RoxANNA WENTWORTH, the only child Of
Long john Wentworth, is one of the wealth.
est women of Chicago. She was educated at
Vassar college. Her father never allowed her
to receive attentions from gentlemen, and now,
at the age of 80, she is still unmarried. al.
though she is rich enough to support a family,
having inherited six or seven millions from her
father
Mrs. FRANCES HoDssoN BURNETT was earning
small salary as a school teacher down in Ten
nessee wnen she wrote her first stories. 1t is
said that the stamps with which her first story
was sent to Peterson'S Magazine were made by
picking blackberries. Her early stories at
tracted little attention, and it was not until
That Lass OLowrie's" was published that she
became known as popular writer.
SAYS the New York Sun: Gen. Dan Sickles
has got back from the rustic regions, and may
now again be seen about town. He certainly
does not look like man in the 9th year of his
age. There are gray Streaks in his hair, but it
has dark look for all that, and his mustache
is as fierce as ever. His face is that OF man in
the prime of life. He uses his crutches skill
fully, and salutes his old comrades in the style
OF long ago"
KING OTTo of Bavaria narrowly escaped being
killed short time ago in his castle of
Fursteuried While passing through the din
and just grazed the head of his majesty. An
attendant who stood near by was badly
wounded. The ooms of the castle have since
been examined. and, with two exceptions
king is now confined in these two rooms. His
condition is considered more hopeless than ever.
"PRINcE BISMARCK" says a correspondent
rs IN appearance now feeble old man. His
lace Is WaXeu ana uAOOy, ana MS nan is are
those of a very old man-yellow and swollen in
the joints and marked with unnaturally biz blue
veins. He is once more becoming very fat alb
domnally, and Or. Schweninger is at his wit 8
end TO keep mis- flesh down, for Bismarck is no
longer able TO walk much. To please his physi
clan, he tries from time TO time, but his legs
hurt him too much to make this form of exer-
else possible. Ali this tends TO depress him. and
the further fact that his family have not been a
long-lived race serves 10 deepen his convection
that his days are numbered"