Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-04
TALK ABOUT PEOPLE.

MRS. HUMPHREY WARD has received ten
thousand dollars so far from ''Robert Els
mere.n
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has his walks
and his haunts like other men. The book
stores and large publishing houses are his
resorts.
PRoF. PRocToR's widow, who will con-
tinue her residence in Florida, is to receive
a pension of five hundred dollars year
from the British Government
DIR. TANNER, the faster, maintains that
the growing use Of opium and its com.
pounds frequently produces syncope nova
days, which leads to interment before
actual death.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, is q
profound student Of the Bible, and his
knowledge of the Scriptures shows itself in
his speeches, many phrases of which are in
Biblical language.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL says that he re-
ceives scores Of letters from the younger
sons Of wealthy and titled Englishmen ask
ing about the avenues of employment in the
United States.
GEORGE KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller,
ever completely mastered the Russian Ian
guage, except Caleb Gushing, formerly
Minister to st. Petersburg.
Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT will erect a
monument over the grave of General Fran
els Marion. The grave is on an old planta
ton near Charleston. Mrs. Vanderbilt
finds she is descended from the Marions.
A KANSAS admirer of Mrs. Harrison has
presented her with magnificent broom,
made of the best straw which Kansas can
produce. The handle is covered with straw
and silver wire representing maple leaves,
flags and the signature of Mrs. Harrison.
BILL NYE says the New York World paid
him sc, 900 the first year Of his engagement
with it. After that, In lieu of increase, he
took the profits resulting from the sale Of
his articles to newspaper syndicate, and
as he says, is making nearly three times his
original salary.
CONGRESSMAN W. L. ScoTT, Of Erie, Pa is
worth probably S15,O00,000, but he is one Of
| the least ostentatious men in Congress
| His face is sallow and he is rather thin and
round shouldered, with sparse sandy hair
He represents, either as president or di
rector, $1,000 miles Of railroad.
THE chair in which President Cleveland
has sat for four years is one that he had
made to order and paid for himself. 1t is
made of light oak, to match the desk made
from the timber of the Resolute and sent tt
the White House by Queen Victoria. I'll:
a great, wide-spreading, revolving chair
with seat and back Of split cane and q
heavy frame tastefully carved.
SENATOR ALLISON is great worker. HI
retires early and rises early, eats a simple
breakfast, reaches the Capitol long before
his colleagues, and pegs away at committee
work until noon. He always stays through
the session of the Senate and watches ever,
move until adjournment. He then returns
to committee work until dinner time. HI
is systematic in his habits, and is thus en-
abled TO accomplish vast amount of work
He takes plenty of exercise and seldom in
dulges IN the designations of society.
THE house which Mr.. Blame has rente'
for the next four years at Washington il
the historical brick mansion where Philil
Barton Key died, and where the ASSASSIN
Payne tried TO kill Secretary Seward. Bel
KNAPP lived there in Grants time and Mrs
Belknap died there. 1t has been in turn
family residence, clearinghouse, q clul
house, the social headquarters of two ad
ministrations, Government Office and
vacant building stunned by house hunter
on account of its reputation.