The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-30
PERSONAL.

FRANKLIN B. GowEN had q marvellous
memory. After reading a long poem through
twice he could repeat it without the text, word
for word.
KING HUMBERT of Italy has inhaled SO many
cigarettes that his bronchial tubes have become
affected. He now sucks camphor instead of
tobacco smoke.
TUPPERs WRITINGS are declared to have
brought him for several years past a revenue
equal to that received by Tennyson Longfellow,
and Browning combined
REV. EDWARD ABBOTT. who has been elected
as missionary bishop to Japan is said to be the
original 'Rollo"of the "Rollo Books" written
by his father, Jacob Abbott.
JAMES r. HARRAH, the newly appointed mar
shall for the western district of Pennsylvania,
was one of the famous 305 who stood by Gen
Grant in the Chicago convention of 1880.
The TENOR NARcoNI, who sang in the Cam
panini troupe, upon hearing that he had lost
his entire fortune through the failure of a
bank, lost his voice also, and is now under treat
ment
Mr.. and Mrs. THURMoND of Charlottesville.
Va, have arrived at Memphis on their bridal
tour TO Kansas Mr.. Thurmond is a bashful.
modest groom of 70 years, and Mrs Thurmond
is shy, blushing bride of even four score years.
Mrs. JOIN A. LOGAN appears on Washington
streets in deep mourning for her gallant hus-
band, and her white hair shows all the whittier
by the contrast with the crepe of sorrow But
see does not look day older than she did five
years ago.
something of Count Tolstoi's real life AYERS
that the Russian socialist in his APP parent reso-
luton to live among and like common people.
manages to get good deal of comfort, not to
say luxury, out of 1t.
DR.. JAMES AIcCosH has severed entirely his
connection with Princeton college, of which he
was the head for twenty years. The venerable
ex-preSldent is living quietly in little cottage
overlooking Princeton Valley, and is devotine
his remaining days to literary work.
T1PPoo TINS real name is Hamd Ben Mohana-
med. his nom de 0uerre being q phonetic effort
on the part of the natives. Tippoo has pleas.
ing way of going round in the early morning
surprising peaceful villages where ivory is re.
ported to be stored and pegging away with his
rifles. The natives used to say that the sound
of his gun was like tip, tip, tip" hence they
called him Tip Tip which Europeans rem
dered into the now famous Tippoo lib.
MISS GwENDoLINE CALDWELL. is now the only
posseisor of the Golden Rose, the famous pom
tiical decoration on the western hemisphere
The bauble does not seem to have brought good
fortune in secular affairs to its other possessors
Therese of Brazil has lost her throne; Isabella
of Spain is an ex-queen, losing her throne few
weeks after she secured the Golden Rose: the
present Queen of Spain received the rose and
lost her husband the Empress of Austria has
it, but mourns a son; Eugene has the Golden
Rose-but what else?
PROF WOODWARD declares that in about 900
years the rock over which the waters plunge at
Niagara will be all worn away The area of the
rock worn away at the Horseshoe Fall, between
the years 1912 and 1875 was Is, 500 square feet.
equal TO 0425 acre; between 1875 and 1885. a
period of eleven years 10000 square feet or / 81
acres, were worn out by the monster cataract
The main length of the contour of the fails is
1880 feet. The time required to recede one
mile, If the rate is 2 feet per year. is an
years Before this catastrophe is due doIbt-
less, provisions viii be made to confpe the
waters of Lake Erie, so that Il disastrous INN
dation will not take place. What wonders will
have come and went before these 29OO years
elapsel