The morning news., 1889-05-21
Personal.

Ex.ATToRNEY GENERAL GARLAND has had
good luck since he hung out his shingle in
be can take care of. He has been SO busy, in
fact, that he will be unable TO take his usual
vacation at Hominy Hill this summer.
HADu HAssEIN GHooLY KHAN, the Persian
minister, is just recovering from severe shock
which his Oriental dignity sustained few days
ago. He started to make some calls. and went
TO the residence of prominent government
official. The domestic refused TO admit him
and sent him away, thinking Ne was peddler.
MISS MURFREE Charles Egbert Craddock)
was an invalid as a child, and it is said that
her mother used to comfort her for her ina
bility to play out of doors with other children
by saying: Never mind my dear; if you can't
play as the others do, you can do one thing
which they can't do-you can spell Popocat-
epetl."
john L. SULLIVAN is doing the pastoral act on
q farm at Belfast, N Y, where he is stopping
with Wrestler Muldoon. He miks cows, fells
he will never be an expert in so doing He is
supposed to be removed from city temptations
and to be getting in condition for his possible
fight with Kllraln next month.
Mr.. GLADSTONE writes as follows to news.
paper syndicate in New York, in reply TO an
offer by the syndicate to pay him $4,000 for
twenty five articles on subjects Of current inter.
est: AT my age the stock OF brain power does
not wax but wanes; and public calls upon my
time leave me only iuctuating residue to dis
pose OF. All ida of a series of efforts is, there
fore, have finally decided, wholly beyond my
power TO embrace"
SENATOR CuLLoM, the New York Sun says
makes a specially Of looking like Abraham Lin
coin. With the natural resemblance Of a long
and lean figure and a strong featured face en-
hAnced by shaving his upper lip, and leaving
his beard TO grow, the Illinois senator really
docs look at first glance good deal like the
great President, or rather as Lincoln might
have look sd II he had had less trouble on his
mind during his public life.
SAYS the Philadelphia Inquirer: Everybody
tiful gifts, but few know the extent TO which lie
is run down and ann Dyed by mail and in person
Anybody, every Body and nobody ask for money
on all sorts OF pretexts-lo start school, get
insured, learn music, lift a mortgage bury
son or daughter. mother or father aunt or any
body. 10 get married, to travel and in fact for
every ching which the Imagination can conceive.
he even receives letters from various parts OF
Europe asking him 10 aid in all sorts Of schemes
both personal add public"
Nh. DAVIDSON, the artist OF Rd,pei's says the
New York star. IS generally very accurate in
has naval pictures regarding matters Of detail
but be has made rather funny mistake in his
sketch published in the centennial number OF
Hdsper's Of the Dispatch with the President on
board passing through the fleet. Ii is the RUE
ia manning yAras IN all navles that the men
face toward tho sovereign or person that is TO
be honored. AS the English axiom has H. no
man must turn his baok to royalty. Mr. David.
son represents The man with Helr backs turned
% tho Dispatch. while Absolutely { ey faced
the other way as prescribed m the tactics