The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-29
PERSONAL.

ALFONSO, the baby King of Spain. is pretty
comfortably fixed financially. His salary is
100000.
Gov. SCALES of North Carolina weighs nearly
300 pounds, and is powerful stump speaker-a
sort OF platform Scales.
KING HuMBGRT of Italy has been obliged to
have all his teeth pulled. The misfortune is the
outcome OF chronic dyspepsia.
Elk SENATOR TABOR of Colorado, having re-
covered all the money he lost in mining
ventures, is expected to try once more for the
United States Senate.
MISS EVA NJ. BRowN. only daughter of John
Brown of Harper's Ferry fame, is the private
secretary of Henry II. FaXon of Quincy, Mass,
and has the management of the Quincy mans
political temperance bureau.
Mrs TRUEAx of DeKab county Missouri has
presented her husband with seven children
within three years-two pairs of twins and one
trio This enterpriSing lady is plainly entitled
to whole bolt of blue ribbon.
NJ EIFTEL has come down from his tower to
occupy q residence in Paris, which was the
properly of Baron Hober. 1t cost the cele-
nrated engineer $l0l,O00 which is about half
of what he made by building the tower.
LADY PAUNcEToTE takes her constitutional
walk each day, and her swinging stride down
Pennsylvania avenue is something to be envied
by society women in general. Many of her
friendly calls made in this democratic
fashion.
n. j. KRAFT, practical dyer of Rockford
Ill, has discovered q process by which he can
stamp burlap in absolutely fast colors This
has heretofore been considered impossible
and the discovery is considered quite i'm
portant.
By REQUEST of the National Historical Asso-
citation, Gen. q. w. Darling, corresponding sec
rotary of the Oneida Historical Society, is now
preparing new list of historical societies in
the United States intended to be more perfect
than the one which appears in the report of the
commissioner of education, 1884 IS.
SIG. CRrsPI, the premier of Italy has won
immortality at a bound The Italian govern
ment, which has a monopoly of the cigarmak-
ing industry of Italy, has ordered that new
brand of cigars be called THE Crispi." 1t is to
be hoped that the government will yet name a
cigar after Count Thomas A. Edison.
GEORGE WILLIAM Curtis pleasantly related
this one on himself the other day in an address:
l was making public speech some little time
neghbor, who happened to be personal friend
of mine, What pity! What PITY why,
what is the pity?' said my friend. well. it is
a great pity that a man with such white whis-
kers should wear such very brown wig"
NJ. GoUNoD, the famous musical composer, is
a man of intense religious feeling. AS he has
grown older ne has become more aScetic and
exclusive in his habits until to-day he lives
almost thu life of a hermit. He has great
dislike for the frivolities of Partisan society and
confines his visiting solely to the old, aristo-
cratic Catholic families of the Faubourg st.
German. Although living in this retired way,
NJ. Gounod is always at home TO musical aspr
ants. The young composer finds an honest
critic in Gounod, the ambitious vocalist, a
friend and adviser Gounod is very frank in
his criticism and gives his impressions bluntly.