The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-29
PERSONAL.

IT is said that the queens estate at Osborne.
if broken UP and sold in small farms, would
fetch about $3.50 an acre.
A SHRINE ha been erected at Auriesville in
the MonaSk valle}, on the plot of ground
where two missionary priests, Fathers JAoues
and Gouf, We're slain by the India in 1872
pretty little chapel and grotto compri ,e the
SHRINE, which is being visited by hundreds
of pill 6rims of tue Roman Catholic church.
SIMON A. STERN, who went to China for Whar
ton Barker year bel ore last, brought back with
him valuable ami interesting collection of
oriental embroideries, including an IMPERIAL
robe probably made for theatrical purposes
Is is of crimson silk, sup rbly embroidered with
the imperial five-clawed dragon In gold and
colorS
AS REGARDS the origin of the characters in
that famous book, Tom Browns School DAYS.
this letter of Mr. Hughes, just come to light. is
int esting: Nov 23, 1873. AS to the charac-
tiers, they were none of them taken as portraits
thou b hope they are something like living
folk. could not tell you what you ask il !
wished, but could name dozens of boys |
knew whom had more or less ia mind and
tried to boil down for the book"
LORD PALMERsroN, said Mr. Gladstone re-
Gently, in genial reference to his old age. lis
the only person who ever attained to the rank
of prime minister of that country that | have
not alread outstripped and left behind me
And the distance between Lord Palmerston and
myself is now so short that if my days be pro
longed but to a small extent he would be in the
rear md | in the front" TIE !rand old man
viii have attained TO Palmerstons age Lee q,
1890.
The GREEK STUDIES of Princess Sophia of
Prussia, in preparation for her maria re with
the Grown Prince of Greece remind one of the
case of the spirited Y cen EN- ma of holland,
who was German, being the daughter of the
Prince of Wadeck- Pyrmo 1t. She learned Dutch
in a short time, but little after her marriage q
courtier, wis ing to agreeable, spoke to her
in German SPEAK Dutch to me, sir" sne
a N opH 10, l. ~.
man any more
LITERARY MEN in England evince a decided
taste for politics. Not TO mentio John Morley
there are now in the British parliament such dis
TIN sulshed literary men as Sir George .. Irevel
yaa Prof Bryce, Justin Mccarthy, Augustine
Birrell, Louis j. Jennings Sir John Lubbock
and several others. Franz iarris the editor of
the Fortatghtty Rsute ", is the tory nominee for
London constituency, and now Mr. Archibald
Grove. the editor of the Nel0 ReUieiC is the
adopted" Gladstonian candidate in another.
Mrs NORA BUCK, wife of the engineer of a
passenger steamer winch plies on Great Egg
Il roor bay between Long Port and Somers
Point, n. j., presides over the engine room and
is killed in the management of the machinery
Mrs. Buck is a gran ldau liter of Commod ore
Laval tie and the dauZ ter of the founder of
Layalette City, n. j. She is as sklful in mauay-
ing a saIlboat as IN run ling steamer She is
only 70 ears old and extremely handsome
her husband says she is the best assistant he
could Ia e in runnin mis- boat
Inn lMflbENOE Vi Cigarette InAk6TS is as pro-
nounce as ever. A man in Washington recently
purchased a package of cigarettes and found
therein photograph bearing the name Miss
Haford." At the white house the picture was
recognized as that of Private Secretary Hal
lords daughter The photograph was Sc to
Mr.. Halford AT Deer PARK. 1t is a shame that
even tn ladies belonging to the family OF a
Pre- ident's private secretary should be sub
Jected 10 such i'm Iertineuce Cigarette photo
grAph, are becoming in their way as unwar-
rantabie as cigarettes themselves.