The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-07
PERSONAL.

Rev. DIR. PHILLIPs Brooks of Boston is the
posSesSor of at least one dozen pairs of en-
broidered slippers which were given to him as
slight tokens of regard. He sorted them over
one day recently in presence of friend and
remar ded that some people evidently took him
for a centipede.
IT MAY NOT be known to many people that
Queen Victoria is an ardent student of frica n
geography, and could pass a very creditable
examination in that subject with Mr.. Stanley as
the interrogation. Her majesty has carefully
watched the Portuguese encroachments, and
When the news OF the outrage on the British
nag reached London it the queen herself
who insisted on Lord Salisbury compelling
Portugal to come to definite understanding
without delay.
SENATOR LELAND STANFoRD's affection for
his dead son does not seem to have lost strength.
even though several years have passed since
the young man died The senator is never sat
istied to remain anywhere that he cannot have
IL portrait of his son on the wall of his room
When he visits New York he always stops at a
certain hotel and requires the same apartment
because it has been furnished with such sor-
trait by himself. In the great Leland mansion
at san francisco half dozen portraits of the
dead boy hang from the walls in as many differ
ent rooms, and there are a profuSion of similar
likenesseS i'll the senator's Washington place of
residence
THE BRILLIANT DINNER given just before the
Empress Augustus death by the Count and
Countess Waldersee practically closed the brief
season Of fashion in Berlin. The object was to
bring together the family of Field Marshal Won
Moitke and the family of the American minis
ter. The dinner had been postponed once on
account of the health of Gen. Won Moitke On
this occasion the influenza was kind to the old
soldier and ali the guests who were invited to
meet HIM. The only guests from civil life, eX-
cept MIR. Phelps and his family, were Mr. Del
bruck who for many years had Won Boettichers
place and was the Bismarck Of the department
of the interior; Mrs Delbruck and the Count
and Countess Ntzthum.
oN-r lg,olyipr, cl0calv 10.
hands, says the Boston Gazette, will notice that
the base of his right thumb is a very we'll de-
We oped full and firm piece of flesh, while at
the same place on his left hand it is very much
shrunken and fallen away. The difference is
due to shaking hands. Probably no living
American who has never been President has
shaken hands with so many thousand people as
Gen Butler, and he has developed the muscles
of his right hand and arm by it. instead of
letting it exhaust and paralyze them. The
general says that the reason handShaking does
not try him is, that he does not let any man
grasp him by the fingers, but advances his
hand to meet the other mans, instead of re-
treating it, and seiZeS the other hand himself in
a firm grasp. Then he manages the proceeding
TO suit HIMSELF
The death of Alvin Burt, in Buffalo last Sun
day morning. removes a well-known figure from
New York hotel life, says the New York Sun.
He was for yearS~the counsel for the Hotel
Keepers Association, and as such was the
trusted friend and adviser of a majority of our
city bonifaces. He was Appointment Tammany
man, and during the campaign of 1888 took an
active part His interest in the election of
Cleveland was strongly personal. When the
two We're young lawyers in Buffalo quarter of
a injury ago they shared the same room for
fully five years, and their friendship never was
broken When Cleveland was elected President
Mr.. Burt had no favors to ask. and he asked
none. He was at one time partner of Mr.
Folsom, the father of Mrs. Cleveland. The re-
mote cause of his death was worriment and
anxiety caused by the Marine Bank failure. In
some Of the smaller failures caused by the
wrecked hank, funds that he had invested in
trust became involved. When he finally sue
ceeded in eXtricating his investments and re-
turning them intact, it was not without consid-
cradle sacrifice of his own resources. The strain
proved too much for him. and he broke down
In 1856 his eyes failed him. and for the past two
years he has been totally blind