The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-26
PERSONAL.

CORPORAL Tanner has had a postoffice named
in his honor in Indiana.
JEREMIAH RUsK, secretary of agriculture, has
become great friend of the new Chinese min
lister.
Miss MARY ANDERSON has decided to live in
Rome during the greater part of the winter of
18o9-'9O.
JOHN G. HUNTER, who recently died in Phila-
delphia at the age of 80 laid the first gas pipe
in that city.
ROBERT BROWNING is said to have made up
scraps of verse when he was small child, and
to have done something in the way of trans
lating Horace when but years old.
MODERN POETS enjoy longevity. Browning
lived to be =. Wordsworth, Bryant, Emerson,
and Longfellow were old men. Whittier, Ten
nyson, and Wait Whitman still live.
SENATOR ALLEN of Washington state is so
youthful in appearance that be was recently re-
fused admission to the floor of the United States
Senate chamber by coorkeeper who did not
know him.
BISHOP BREWER of Montana says: "Our
Montana men are honest, hard working indie
religious, and they do not respect church Offices
but they treat bishop quite as well as they
treat a cowboy, provided the bishop is a manly
man.
THE HEIR APPARENT of the Japanese empire
having become of legal age, II years, last
month was given a sword which is said to have
been kept in the imperial family for nearly
! 800 years and installed in an Office that will
entitle him to be called colonel or something of
the kind.
REPRESENTATIVES, TUCKER of Virginia was one
of the last members of the House to draw in the
seat lottery, and great was his SURPRISE as well
as delight, when taking 1t, he discovered that
II was the seat of his father, j. Randolph
Tucker. first occupied when he was a member
of that body.
REV. CHARLES f. STOWE, son of Harriet
BeecSer Stowe, has resigned his position as
pastor of the Windsor Avenue Congregational
church, Hartford, Conn. He asked for leave of
absence for year and it was refused Mr.
stowe is the author of recently published
biography Of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
DR.. MAuRTER, the artist, was educated orig
inaly in scientific chemistry, and as a very
young man once took charge OF a gold mine in
Devon; gold mine in which, however there
was no gold, as he very soon found out. But
the desire of art was so strong in him that he
gave up his profession and went to Paris, and
there he studied for year at Gleyre's studio.
LUDovIc HALEvY, member of the French
academy and author of many successful books
and plays, says that his daughter lamented to
him that she had never read line that he had
written: for the parental edict had gone forth
to that effect. Moved by her complaints he
set himself TO write a story for her especial be-
hoof, and the result was THE Able Constan-
tin.
THACKERAy was fond of a good dinner and
when he was in this country enjoyed the terra
pins and canvas back ducks of the Chesapeake
lie liked to gather few choice spirits around
him and have good time but all within che
limits OF becoming mirth, with wine, cigars,
stories, etc. tie used to enjoy the Saturday
nights at the Century Club, New York, where
he once met DR.. Kane soon after the latter had
returned from one of his voyages to the North
Pole. The doctor told Thackeray how he had
seen sailor reading "Pendennis" by the light
of train oil lamp beneath polar glacier
HoRTENsE BERTRAND, daughter of Count
Bertrand, the most faithful of Napoleon's gem
erals, is still living in Paris. She accompanied
her father and mother to st. Helena in 1915
The emperor taught the little girl her cate
chism and she made her first communion at the
hands of the same able who administered the
last sacrament to the dying Napoleon. Hor-
tense returned with her parents to France and
married NJ Thayer gentleman of American
extraction. She retains very vivid recollection
of the great emperor and has many Napoleonic
relics, among them his silver service, his fam
Gus Waterloo coat, etc.