The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-24
PERSONAL.

COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE RUsK loves
both pie and base ball.
LAWRENCE BARRETTs increasing girth is a
source of much annoyance to him.
SENATOR JOSEPH r. HAwLEY will deliver the
Grafton of the $50 h anniversary of the sett e.
ment OF Milford, Conn.
GRACE GREENwooD (Mrs. Lippincott is visit
ing Mrs. Ellwel AZ Sandwich. Mass Moncure
ID. Conway IS at the same resort.
GaN. GRENFELL, the British commander in
Egypt, is a handsome man of AZ, with decided
hte airy as well as military tastes.
SENATOR FAULKNER Of West Virginia is laid
up at Martnsburg with severe fracture of the
left knee-cap, caused by stepping on base ball
bat that turned under his foot and caused him
TO fall.
JUDGE WALTER Q. GRESHAM, Gen. j. NJ. Scho-
neld ana party OF two or three other promi-
nent gentlemen arrived on Sunday at Alexa l.
dria Bay, N Y, as the guests of tie rye NJ. Pull
man, at his beautiful summer home. Castle
Rest
JACQUES DAMALA. the husband of Sarah Bern
hardt, who died in Paris on Sunday was a
Greek, ana had been soldier in the French
army. He had also played secondary parts in
the Bernhardt company. He was married to
the actress in 1882.
ToIsroI, the Russian novelist, although of
noole birth, affects the life of a peasant ana the
trade of a shoe laker. he dresses like n villa 20
begrned with mud, and his VIII lie appearance
is that of workin Enan, aday laborer a down
Jrodden Russian Serf.
FRANK JONES, the big ale brewer of Ports
mouth, n. H., and the richest man in the state
is largely interested i'll the suits to annul the
Bell telephone patent. He represented his dis
trict in congress from 1877 to 1879. and was
mentioned as Cleveland'S possible Secretary of
the Navy.
F. c. BURNARD ths present editor of Punch
was IN early II 3, member OF Cathode eccle-
siaStlcal establishment at BaySwater near Lon.
don. Ris intention was to become 3 priest
and he was even admitted to tonsure and mi or
orders. II IS difficult TO associate the lively
editor of Punch and a4ther Of "Hapny
Thought" with the ecclesiastical state
A WRITER in the Epoch SAYS that .Josenb
Puhtzer's eyesight does not improve When
the designs of mis- new building were submitted
to him he could not distinguish the lines with
sufficient clearness to get any adequate idea of
what the design was like, SO they had to CON
struct a rough model for him. Physicians give
him no hope that his eyes will ever recover
their strength.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY has attracted the attention
of a Saratoga gossper, who says: "Oa Sunday
last she dlncd at tue Hotel Bamoral on Mount
McGregor. she hardly LOOKS her go wears
of age, but that's the figure. She is one of the
best known wo nen in America. She comes of
nent in public life. Two of her brothers have
been governors of the state OF Kansas while
another was United States senator. sac was
born in Massachusetts in 1920 and since 1869
has been conspicuous 10 various phianthropc
and reform movements. q"
WILLIAM FEARING GILL. who, at one time de-
veloped aterrible case of Poe-manIa, claims that
once upon a summer evening as he was sitting
by an open window at q New York hotel a
raven suddenly flew into his room and. Ierch
ing upon a table, eyed him most ntelligenty
lie refused TO leave the apartment ana Mr.
Gill, after much trouble, caught the strange
visitor and the next day took him to a dealer
in birds. He insists that the raven was an
actual fact, and no optical delusion or freak of
the ina Siuatlon. He Seems to think that the
ebony bird was the soul of Poe seeking the com
pa y OF oAe of his greatest admirers for some
unexplained reason.