The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-31
PERSONAL.

SENATOR STANFORD is said to be q warm
advocate of the political rights of women, and
he has Just given $500 to Susan b. Anthony
toward printing and distributing pamphlets on
the subject. Five thousand will be sent to
South Dakota to aid in the elections which will
be held there next fall to decide the question of
wonan's rights
PROF.. SoUsA, leader of the marine band of
Washington has received a COPY Of the nation al
hymn of the United States of Brazil One of
the first acts of the new government was to call
on the Brazilian poets and composers to pre-
pare national air, vita suitable words A
trunktul OF songs and hymns were sent in one
OF which was adopted.
EMPRESS AUGUSTA of Germany was very fond
OF the pomp and state of royalty. Some fifteen
years ago she sustained q severe and incurabla
injury by slipping and falling ON the marble
floor of one OF the halls of the palace. Sha
never walked again but She did not, for that
reason, rshnqUisn her post as hostess at the
court balls. She was carried to her throne
early IN the evening. and remained until she
was too faugued to stay longer.
BosroN's radical Unitarian clergyman, the
Rev. NJ. J. Savage, looks upon labor not as an
unmiXed blessing but as q necessary evil
For. he says. while the wage system is an
immense Improvement over anything the old
world ever knew before, the man who must go
into the market and sell all the hours of every
day in order to live, of course cannot travel or
study or develop n taste for what are rightly
called the hunlanitleS the higher sides of life -
SOME TIME uurlny inc administration of ANDY
johnson. Don PiaUt, then the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial called
William d. Kelley of the House odd Pig-Iron -
The title caught on with the press and has held
its own ever since. Not long after this desi.rna-
ton went ont Piatt and he ley met at a dinner
party. They were personal friends although
political encmies. Platt expressed his regret at
having given his friend such rub 'Don' /
apologize, Piatt.n said Kelley in his deem roar
of n voice. you paid me high compliment
/ want to be known through life as 'Pig-IroD >
and when die / want that title engraved upon
my tomb
Elk CONTROLLER W. T. TRENHOLM who left
the treasury department TO become president of
the American Surety Company. says the
New York star, was business man
and banker before he went to Washington
He has given long and thoughtful study to
financial matters, and some of the fruits of his
lahOTs Will be given to the public in lecture at
Cooper Union Feb. IS. He has chosen Money
Matters for his topic, and from what know
of his general views it viii prove interesting.
Col Trenholm says that the people are too apt
to regard finances, in the public sense as some
thing so extensive and abstruse that il is not
possible for them TO comprehend il, and conSe-
quently it is left for few men to study The
money or financial policy of the country is
nevertheless shaped more by congress than by
tine executive heads Of government. and con
gress is made up of representatives OF the peo-
pie VINO viii give thought and study to any
question only asthey are pressed by the constit-
uents b .hind them. He holds that money mat
terS are sufficiently easy of comprehension so
that every citizen should give them attention
and thus force representatives in congress 10 be
also well verSed in them.