The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-28
Personal.

A PORTRAIT of John Wesley has been hung up
IN Lincoln college, Oxford, Of which he was
member IL should not be forgotten that Wes-
ley lived and died a clergyman of the Church of
England.
Mas. ALEXANDER MCVEIGH MILLER who lives
near Anderson. in Greenbrier county, West Vr-
glna is said to draw an annual salary of 3 900
from New York weekly paper for stories and
other literary work.
MISS KENNEDY, a San Francisco school ma am
who was dismissed by the school comm ttee in
1857 without any assigned cause, has been rein
stated by a decision of the supreme court with
$1,000 for pay in the interval.
SECRETARY RUsK turns mis- back upon all the
fashionable designations of the capital. He per
slstenJiy re uses to touch cards dice, or the
VINE bottle and is determined to resist tempta-
ton SO long as he is cabinet officer
THE Evil That Men Do by Edgar Fawcett" is
the legend to be found on a recently published
novel Inc lack Of punctuation may he
spOnSib!e tor the popularity of the title, but
perhaps fa"cett refers to his Boston critics.
SENATOR WoLcoTr Of Colorado and Senator
Vest OF Missouri are much depressed by the fact
that Senator Pettigrew of Dakota has already
acquired a reputation IN Washington as the
most brilliant and aggressive poker player in
the Senate.
OSCAR 5. STRAUs, who was Mr.. Cleveland's
minister TO the Sublime Porte. lectured the
other nght at Steinway hal for the benefit of
tue chlldren OF the Hebrew orphan asylum. Mr..
Stra1s Is one of the most popular Hebrews in
New York.
VICE PRESIDENT MOrtons every day lunch
which he takes in the Senate restaurant is a
bowl Of bread and milk, accompanied coca
sionaly by bottle of beer. Senator Ed,nunds
who is one Of the good livers Of the Senate
usually iavors his lunch with pint of cham
payne.
AT New YORK Tuesday evening two ex-con-
tederate officers visited the widow of Gen Grant
and were cordially r4ceived. One of the visitors
was Gen. John :. Mosby, the noted cavalry Off
Ger under Cen Lee, and the other Gen Cadmus
wilcox. The pair met accidentally on a street
car, and in conversation discovered that their
destinations were the same
JAMES McWHoRTRR WHISTLER. who is about
to visit the states after an absence of thirty
years, wears elongated curls brushed back
behiud his ears. He is a lank- built prominent
chlnned man OF eccentric manner, with a rat
tail mustache, and was born in Massachusetts
some five and fifty years back, but resides in
London, where he is reckoned among the Char
acters."
JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., who has been appointed
clerk OF the committee on foreign affairs of the
House of Representatives, has been educated
for the position by few inglorous weeks as a
newspaper reporter, by close attention to the
billiard cue and by few months of service as a
locomotive fireman. He is well fitted, therefore,
to wear dress-suit in the evening and draw a
salary of s., 100 year.
The PRINCE OF NAPLES who is making a tour
around the world is a reserved rather stiff
young fellow OF 20, whose naturally delicate
constitution has not been improved bv constant
application TO ms studies, unreeved Dy auy
athletic recreation whatever. His tastes are
those of scholar and booSworm his favorite
HOBBY being the collection of medals coios and
OLD arus lie fulhlls his military duties as
rlgiily and punctually as a German, and rarely
SHOWS surprise or expresses his feelings.