The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-05
PERSONAL.

WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS will sail for Ger
many on Sept. Z.
Mrs. ROSE TERRY COOKE is a confirmed inya-
lid at her home at Pittsfeld, Mass
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, it is said will succeed
Lord TennysOn as poet laureate of England
THEODORE ROOSEVELT is getting comfort
ably near immortality. His Handwriting
has been discovered to be as bad as Horace
Greeley's.
w. G. GRACE, England's greatest cricket
player Is ~ years of age. His score for twenty
live years is 81, 900 runs in firSt-casS matches
and over 1000 wlckeuS.
CHARLES DICKENS, the reader. has a long
novel IN manuscript which he has never had the
COURAGE to publish he realizes that his work
woulI be compared with his fathers, and he
does not dare to brave the test
EDITOR STEAD, of the Pail Mall Gazette is
quoted as saying that "a man should no more
undertake Journalistic WORK as a means of
making money than he should become a min
l lSter OF religion through mercenary motives
The aims of 4 journ Hist who is worth anythino
must be higher than that.
THE Manchester IN. HI Mirror calls upon fine
trustees OF Dartmouth college to remove Prof.
colby of that institution, because in a recent
statement made by him before a legislatiye
committee he said that voters were purchased
by the hundreds in New Hampshire elections
w. K. NANDERBILT's steam yacht Alva. which
Is easily the handSomest and most perfectly an
pointed pleasure boat in the world, cost 5000
UOO, and tue expense of runuing h is said 70
be about S-00,U00 year The ROYAL Yachts of
Europe are mere dugouts in comparison with
the Alva.
EX-PREsIDENr CLEVELAND is still undecided as
TO ms European trip II Xt winter His wife is
anxious TO 60 acrQSS ana end n few months in
the soutl of France. Mr.. Ceveland's intimate
friends assert that his dsincnatlon for the
trip lies IN his fear that he would be wofulIy
Seasick.
GYwNNE r. ToMKINs, a reporter on the New
YORK Eceh ng SW9t. went to Saratoga to write
up the races for the paper. He mad a $40 bill
when he got there, and a. the eud of four weeks
resigned mis- position on tue paper with $50 900
wlauln IS in MS pocket and was the owner of a
racing stld. So he says, but there are those
who DOUBT his story.
WHEN Barnum receiNed telegram a few
days since stating that one of his snow railway
trans was wrec Led. killing thirty horses and
Two camels, ana destroying six cars, he low
ouSly exclaimed, Thank heaven nobody was
killed or injured. We shall lose one show dov
and night in Montreal but we have plenty of
trained horses to fill the places of those killed
IN Lord relgns, and 1t Is all right" And he
went to bed and slept niue hours.
WRITER in the Epoch, speaking of Henri
Rochefort, says: seen at an evening recan
ton, faultiessly dressed and agreeabIe To ~.
whole company. IL is difficult TO believe that he
Is the author of the securrilous article Won have
real IN the morning. Another good point f,r
Rochefort is his love for his family and his
charitable nature. H has long aided Louise
Michel after helping her mother and still navs
a p snsion to the three children of Oliver Pain
his former secretary, VINO was killed while
hshtlng for the mahdi's cause. He allows $50
month to the widow of Emile Endes, a
socialist friend who died year ago. and last
year he adopted poor little orphan girl to
whom he int nds to give a dowry. Altogether
ne gives away annually about $1,000