The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-24

JUDGE THOMAS NJ. COOLEY, chairman of the
interstate commerce commission has written
an introduction for the Railway" book of the
Scribners.
IT is NOT GENERALLY KNOWN that there are in
existence some very spirited ballads by Lord
Macauiay, which, in accordance with the author s.
wish, have never been published. The best of
them relates the story of Bosworth field.
ANDREW D. BAIRD, the republican candidate
for mayor of Brooklyn, is a Scotchman by
birth and stone-cutter by trade. He served
through the war, coming out lieutenant
colonel, and has since been prominent in the
business circles OF Brooklyn.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA has ordered the well.
known Russian artist, Prof. Bogynboff, to paint
a picture after the style Of Salzmann, repre-
senting the entrance of Emperor William into
the harbor of Cronstadt. It will be presented
to The German emperor when finished.
EMILE DE LAvELEYE, the European publicist.
says. in the October forum, that a hundred
years hence, leaving China out of the question
there will be two colossal powers in the world,
beside which Germany, England, France and
Italy will be as pigmies-the United States and
Russia
OLIVER c. BosBYsHELL, the new superintend-
emit of the mint at Philadelphia, is 30 years of
age and native of Vicksburg Miss, but his
parents were Pennsylvanians, and he was
brought up in the Schuylkill valley. He has
been connected with the mint in various capaci-
ties since 1869.
BARON H1RscH, one of the richest of the
French bankers, who was blackbaled a few
months ago by the Paris Jockey CLUB is about
to take his household TO England. He thinks
OF buying Houghton hall, one of the most mag
nificent of English places, near Sandringham
for 100000. The baron is reputed to be worth
910000,0O0.
j. T. TRowBRIDGE, whose stories for boys
have made him famous, lives in retirement in
Boston, seldom receiving callers. He has made
fortune by his pen, but does not care for
society in his declining years. H Q is now over
20 years old and has very handsome face,
which tells of a wellspent life. He declares
that work will never iniure a man if he leaves
all kinds of dissipation alone.
APPLETON MORGAN, founder and president of
the New York Shakespeare Society. is very
like Napoleon in appearance, and is fair, fat
and ~. HIS home is at Newtown, L. l. where
he has a choice library, which is particularly
profession, but, ike Master Shallow, he had
very little love for it in the beginning, and it
pleased heaven to lessen it on a better &C
quaintance,
Count D'ORsAY was Bohemian of the grand
princely type. For a quarter of a century he
was the glass of the London world, although
he was so deeply in debt and so harassed by
bailiffs that it was on Sunday only that he
could stir out OF doors, for fear of being ar
rested. But on every Sunday he appeared in
Hyde park Respondent in person and turnout,
for ne was the most accomplished whip among
the fashionable gentlemen OF the day.
WILLIAM ID. HowELLs Is a short. thick-set
round-shouldered mau, having more the appear
ance OF a Bowery boy than a graceful humorist.
His iron-gray hair falls in unkempt masses over
low forehead, and his eyes have more sullen-
ness than intellect in their expression. He re-
ceives $4,000 a year from HdrDer's Magazine
He writes with great Fapidity, turning out ten
printed pages a day on stretch. Since the
critics, dig and little. have begun to speak
plainly about his novels he is not so sweet
tempered as he was when everything he wrote
was praised 70 the skies.
Mas. MARGARET J. PRESTON, the Virginia
poetess, Is not blind as several newspapers have
announced, but she IL suffering from the merci-
less Use Of ner eyes IN her generous efforts 20
help southern Literature ma tho years which fol
lowed the civil war. This incessant work day
and night. wore out her eyesight, and for ten
years she has been c0mpeiled 70 dictate her
literary work, and also her letters. o. type
writer In SPITE u this great drawback, She
brought out three books last year She Is n0N
70 years ~ age, bat she works still Her bus
hana Col J. 7 L. Preston. is q professor AZ tue
Virginia Military Institute, a. LsAingtoo, Va
lie Was ciassmate 81 kdsaF a. Poe a. private
school M hichmopd, - far hack a. AZ