The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-25
PERSONAL

STATUE to the memory Of Seth Boyden. the
inventor. was recently unveiled in Newark
N. J. The statue represents Mr.. Boyden as a
mechanic with one hand on the anvil.
TIE KING OF Trays HEALTH since the death
OF his brother, the Duke Of AoSta, has caused
considerable anxiety. Nothing can rouse him
from his state Of profound melancholy.
one Of the jolliest Of tine members Of the
United States Senate is Senator Wocott OF
Colorado. He is short, thick-set and broad OF
beam. His fund of hnmor is well nigh mex.
haustiole.
MRS. GIAcoNxErTI PRoDGERs, the terror of
London cabmen, is dead. Her habit was to
drive the fullest possible stance for the money,
pay the exact legal fare, and then cause the ar
rest OF the cabman for expressing his feelings.
THE French academy met the other day to
choose a successor to Emile Augier. but no can
didate secured the twenty votes requisite to an
election The chief contest lay between NJ.
Manuel and NJ. Lavisse. lola received only
four votes.
IA DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE PHILoLoGY
has been established at WELLESLEY College, and
Miss Helen L. Webster of Zurich, has been ap-
pointed its professor. Mrs. Julia ]. Irvine, a
graduate OF Cornell University, has been ap-
pointed Junior professor of Greek.
THERE is a history attached to the clay pipes
which Alphonse Daudet smokes. They originally
belonged to Gustave Flaubert. Fiaubert and
DaudeC were fast friends years ago, and when
the author Of ''Salammbo'' died he left his clay
pipes as well as other things of more value to
Daudet.
HENRY WILLARD is writing his autobiography
for the use Of his children. He was born in
Germany, and the story of his early DAYS is
written in German His schooliays are de-
scrlosd IN French. as he was educated in
france, and his business and social life is writ
ten in English.
LORD HERscHELL presided recently at the au-
nuai meeting of the International Arbitration
and Peace Association. He remarked that
many disputes between countries arose from
small causes having grown into serious matters.
III they We're taken 10 time and submitted to
arbitration money and bloodshed might be
saved.
MAzzINI's old coadjutor in resurrecting Italy.
Aurelio Saffi, recently died in Rome and left his
small property to several public societies, to
the detriment of his children, on the ground
tHat ne considered 1t their patriotic duty to
work FOR their own living just as he had done.
the requirements of his revolutionary career
never having allowed him to accumulate
money.
CONSIDERABLE of a sensation has been caused
throughout Hungary by the beautiful Countess
Edmund Szechentji, who was well-known about
ten years since in London society, being paced
under restraint. Her husband, VINO was once
reputed TO be enormously rich, is now the chief
OF the Constantinople fire brigade. The reason
assigned for this action is that the countess is
suffering from monomania
W. H HuRLBERT, the American journalist,
who is at present residing in England, has
brought out volume France and the Re-
public, which affords capital insight into the
work. & OF the politicians who are making-or
perhaps unmaking-modern France. Mr.. Hurl-
bert considers that the rock the republic will
split upon is the Rock of Peter"-in other
words, the religious question.