The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-14
PERSONAL.

EX-M1NIsTER PHELPS will locate in New
Haven, Conn.,. soon after Christmas.
Hon HANNIBAL HAMLIN has survived all but
two of his fellow members of'the Maine legisla-
ture of 1885
ROBERT BROWNING bore q remarkable likeness
to the late J. B. Lippincott. founder of the
well-known Philadelphia publishing house.
JOSEPH AND ANNA wULRErTz have arrived in
Pittsburg on their way from Galveston to New
York. They have walked the entire distance,
and have been four months on the road.
STANLEY has taught the Africans something
about exploration but he has not taught them
how to spell The names of some of the places
he has visited would break Russians jaw.
Mrs. EVA HAMILTON, wife of Robert Ray
Hamilton, divides her time In the New Jersey
state prison between sewing buttons on shirts
reading the Bible, and scheming for new trial,
WILSON BARRETT has just finished the first
act of the new play with which he will open his
new theater in London next September 1t is
founded on the story of The Bondman," an
English novel.
THE QUEEN OF ITALY is growing stout, to her
great distress. She has several times tried
become vegetarian, in hope of reducing her
weight, but it she too fond of good living to per-
severe in sucha course.
SINCE SARDoU has succeeded in obtaining only
one franc damages from the Paris Gil Bias for
printing his latest play before it was performed,
a
get them to print his next before he writes it.
PRINCE CHRISTIAN. the oldest son of the
Grown Prince of Denmark, who is at present
serving his year In the ranks of the common
soldier, is the tallest prince inE urope. Hereto
fore, the Emperor of Russia has had this honor
but Prince Christian, as was discovered during
the cars recent trip to Fredensburg, is several
inches taller than that monarch,
HENRIK IBsEN, the Norwegian dramatist, has
been spending the summer in a small villa Ye-
Gossensass in Tyrol, situated 9, 400 feet above
the sea- on the south side of the Bremen pass
AS proof of the great admiration and respect
in which lbsen is held in Germany, the authori.
ties in GoSsensass directed that one of the
squares should be called Ibsenplatz, in honor of
their distinguished visitor
GUsTAvE DoRE the celebrated painter was n
man of medium size, but with the head of a
poet and the frame of an athlete. Although he
was very rich he was one of the worst dressed
men in Paris. He was SO devoted to his art
that, even in company, when not mapping and
fddng he was making sketches. He was a
true Frenchman and although decorated with
more foreign orders than any of his contempo-
raries no triumph abroad gave him half as
much pleasure as the smallest success won in
Paris.
Perces Indians who defied the United States a
few years ago, is fully six feet in his moccasins
and weighs 200 pounds. His features are fine
and denote decided character; his forehead is
broad and high, slightly slopng from pair of
heavy beetling eyebrows, above a pair Of pierc-
ing black eyes His hair, black and straight is
remarkably fine for an Indians, and is glossy,
without any BEARS grease His hands and feet
are small and well-shaped; of the former he
is proud and spends much time in manicuring
them. His skin is OF light copper color, and
in the sunlight takes on beautiful reddish hue