The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-27
PERSONAL.

PATTI retains her passion for billiards. and
spends much of her leisure in playing with
Nicolini. -
THE HON. W. F. Villas kept his identity well
concealed at a Chicago hotel the other day I'M
der the name of w. H. Brown.
Mas. RUSSELL B. HARRISON has had a bonnet
named after her, which is a modification of one
designed for Princess Rimsky korthakoff
DR.. ONoPRoFF, TALL slender, young Italian.
with black hair and a pale face, is astonishing
Londoners with his power as a mind-reader. He
calls himself Observation-Disclosures"
KING DINAH, the Senegambian chief who
made a sensation in Paris last summer. is hav,
ing trouble with his subjects because he has
adopted some of the habits of civilization.
A PARTY of bandits near Puerto Principe re-
Gently kidnapped Senior Genaro Fernandez a
planter of that locality, but subsequently re-
leased him on the payment of $4,000 by his
friends.
OLAF KRAKER, an Esquimau woman. is to lee
ture in England. She is the first person of her
race to ascend the rostrum. She speaks Eng
llsh tluently, wears her native costume, and is
only feet inches In hight.
RUBrNsTEIN has announced his intention of
dividing between the st. Petersburg Conserva-
tory and the Imperial Russian Society of
Musc-St. Petersburg branch-all the money
presented to him on the occasion of his recent
Jubilee day.
L. o. ARMSTRONG, a Montreal lecturer, is con-
sixty days and, more surprising still, is said to
have found a gentleman to back him. There
are plenty of men who will be willing to try and
do the journey in fifty days. and to express re-
grets in any suitable form TO those who pay the
expenses upon failing to succeed.
COMMENTATORS ANTONIO SALvIATI, to whom
is due the revival of the art of glass blowing
and the manufacture of Venetian mosaic. died
in Venice recently. Commentators Salviati was
by profession lawyer, but he spent his leisure
hours in studying the works left by his ancient
compatrots, and in the year 1859 he conceived
the idea of reviving the mosaic art. Eventually
he relinquished the law and devoted all his en-
ergies and fortune to the development of
enamels for the manufacture of mosaic.
THE WEDDING of Archduchess Valerie Of Ans
tria with Archduke Franz Salvador, which was
postponed by the death of Crown Prince RIl-
dolph has now been definitely fixed for Aug IS
the birthday of the emperor, who will be so
years old on that day. The ceremony is to take
place at Ischl. The bridegroom is "a years old.
and the bride % and their chief amusement be-
fore the sad suicide, which put a sudden stop TO
all gayeties, was to drive about together through
the streets of Vienna in rickety hired four
wheeler.
NEXT to Chauncey Depew. say dinner-goers,
Charles Emory Smith, the new minister TO
Russia. is one of the best all-round orators in
the country now. Mr.. Smith is tall, sparely-
built man, about forty-five years of age though
he scarcely looks it. He has thick, dark hair
a penetrating, dark-brown eye, graceful action
of the hands and q ready command of facial
expression. Slender and at times boyish-look.
ing, MIR. Smith seems always to have serious
purp ose in view. He is dyspeptic eats sparing-
~, drinks only Apolhnaris and eschews the
small vices There is no geniality in Orator
Smiths manners and he Is by no means hail
fellow well-met with his business associates and
employees; but he seems 10 be at peace with
them and himself when he gets on his feet and
% doff some of the asceticsm which has made
him 10 some extent a social hermit-barring
politicians.