The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-01
PERSONAL.

WHITTIER, it is said, falls asleep in his chair
when visitors begin to praise his poetry
Earthly honors grow less valuable to him as the
years wane.
A ooRREsPoNDENT says that Jay Gould has
been invited to take look at the tomb of Vir-
gil, near Naples, with the view of buying it, as
1t is for sale.
THE "Monstuart" mansion of Lord Butte
near RothesaY, is said to have cost not less
than SSQOO,IOO, and is believed to be the largest
and costIiest private palace in existence
LABoUcHERE is decidedly opposed to the pro-
posed colored evening and knee breeches. but is
willing TO compromise, for comforts sake on a
loose blouse as part of improved evening
dress for gentlemen.
REPRESENTATIVE S. s. Cox has gone west on
another lecturing tour He will lecture in
Youngstown, O., East Saginaw, Mich and St
Paul. On the Fourth of July he will crate in
Dakota. and nefore his return will visit the
Yellowstone park.
Ma. AND Mas. ROBERT GARRETT will go TO
Connecticut next week, where they have
secured cottage for the summer. He looks
much better, and his friends say is greatly i'm
proved and sufficiently recovered to attend to
some business at The bank every day.
Mrs. CHANLER has again attracted the atten-
ton OF the Saturday keUielC, which continues
to call her Miss Amelie Rives She has been de-
nounced in America observes her present critic
with superiuty of seriousness. To the Sdtltr.
day she seems what another American young
u
and her books by no means without promise
THEODORE THOMAS orchestra was PLAYING a
symphony or something in which the music at
one part was softened almost to q birds whis-
per, when, ike the crack of a riled cannon
came one startling blast from the oboe The
enraged conductor turned savageiy upon the
player. What in the devil do you mean?''
just then plump blue-bottle fly took wing
from the oooeist score. "Gott in himmel!
dhink he vas Won node, und blay him!''
proved himself treless worker. His powers
of endurance are remarkable. He is at the
white house early IN the morning aud late at
night. He moves about rapidly, never loses his
temper, and is atfable to callers But he is not
at all ELUSIVE If you want more than is rea-
Sonable Halford will turn as cold as Edmunds
or Sherman His habits are good He neither
drinks nor smokes, and nobody ever heard him
use strong language.
QUEEN VICroRIA has so far relaxed the strin.
gent rule against permitting divorced women to
enter her presence that such as are themselves
blamelesS who have obtained divorces from
their husbands are no longer to be excluded
from her court. This indulgence caused such a
rush of LADIES' in this position at the last draw
ing room that quite number to whom this
order gave the entree could not get the ueces-
sary permit as the queen insists upon person
ally investigating each case and reading the tes-
uimony 10 the divorce court to make sure that
no improper person secures access to her pres
ence.
FRANCIS S. SALTUs, whose death occurred
from gastric fever last Monday, was the elder
brother, by a different mother, of Edgar E.
Saltus, the novelist. He came of an old New
York family that was distinguished in the early
mining and manufacture of iron in this state,
and his father was the inventor of the modern
system of riiing cannon. The elder Saltus pro
vid-d the guns with which Napoleon III. won the
battle Of Soferiuo, and wears the grand ribbon
of the Legion of Honor that has been bestowed
upon no other American citizen Francis Satus
was literary man and a poet Of some repute
in magazine literature.