The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-11
PERSONAL.

In BIS SUNDAY MORNING SERMON the Rev
Heber Newton of New York tod his congreya-
ton that distinguished rector had once said:
ITO be successful IN the ministry in New York
requires somewhat of the grace of God but
also ttl spice of the devil"
TIE CONDITION of the czarina causes the car
and the imperial family the greatest uueasi-
ness she being near accouche nent. Sle is in
state OF high nervous excitement. in sympathy
with the ill health and tribuatiOus of her hus-
band, and the utmost precautions are taken
against the penetration of any unWelcolne news
or rumors to her apartments.
MISS ANNIE GULpsToNE, the daughter of the
family physician of the Prince of Wales died
recently in London. and left in her will bequest
OF t3,OUO, to be deposlte IN London bank, and
its interest to be applied to the purchase of v
eral bottles of the best champagne for the use
OF actors ana actresses on every occasion when
the play calls for wine drinking on the stage.
ONE WOMAN has made the silk gowns of the
justices of the supreme court for the past forty
years and she gets 500 for each one of them
They are all made alike the only difference being
in the material, the chief justice wearing black
Chinese satin, While his associates are robed in
black silk TIE chief justice always wears a new
gown when he SweaIS IN President. The new
gown is always subject to good deal of criti-
csm by the older justices, and its fit is closely
scanned
TRE LATE ROBERT BROWNING never INDUCED
in public speaking. He diSliked oratorial en-
heard an atheistic speaker in HYDE park har-
anguin5 a crowd. When the speaker had
finished his tirade, Browning sprang up to the
vacant char and cried to the onlookers: Vow
my friends, you havs heard him, stem to me- -
Then he be an a ten-mi utes Grafton which
had such an effect that the tickle multitude
drove away the first speaker with taunts and
jeers.
THE WIDOW of Schuyler Colfax lives very
quietly at South Bend. Ind. with a son, Schuy-
Ter, Jr, who absolutely idolizeS her. Young Col
fax is fine, manly fellow, not very much over
81 very popular VITA his fellow townsInen. very
popular with the ladies. and devoted to the
study of music. But he is very modest withal
When he was asked recently to sing the part of
~. E6alpn kackstraw III an amateur production OF
Plnafore, he decliuet emphatically, saving in
homely cut convincing Hoosier way that he
would feel like going through the floor
To SHOW how abject is the worship of royalty
in India, the following extracts from a poem
written IN Bombay to welcome Prince Albert
Victor of Wales are pertinent: A prince indie
p ndent in dignity, high in beauty and grace
as lovely as the moon, the world boasts of the
abilities OF him descended from a royal line
most exalted. Born of an heir-apparent at
who e feet the highest heavens do revere ce to
whom the world far and wide pays homage the
confronting enc ny yields to his sword" etc.
Evidently they have not heard of the West End
scandals in Bombay.
THAT was an interesting assemblage at the
Inauguration of Gov. Bracket of ) assachu-
setts. 1t comprised ex Cows. Gardner and
Boutwell,, Banks and Clafin, CASTOR, Rice. and
Long, Butler, Robinson, ani Ames. Ex-Gov.
Banks, with his thick thatch of snowy hair. a
NH airy man in his air ana bearing. and Clatlin
the quiet, sedate man OF business. were especially
conspicuous as they sat together near the center
Of the ha / and chatted together 'Tne contrast
between men in physical appearance was great
est between Gov. Long and Gov. Butler both
familiar figures in Boston. The congressional
group was also interesting. There were Sen
ators Dawes and Hoar; Representatives Lodge
alert and full of life; CogsweH and Randall:
Morse and Andrew, striKinely dissimilar il
their physical appearance; O'Neill with tue air
of the busting politician; Gambler, vita tue ap
pearance of a welEto-do banker: Greenhalya
Walker' and Wallace. This is a coterie seldom
seen together save upon the floor of congress.