The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-20
PERSONAL.

SENATOR PErTIeREw of South Dakota is a
brilliant and aggressive poker player. He has
the reputation of being phenomenally lucky.
BRYENN1os, Archbishop of Nicodemia. has
found in q Turkish library at Damascus a
manuscript of the New Testament dating back
TO the fourth century.
Mrs DIANA DovEY, an eccentric English
woman who has achieved fame and fortune in
New York by her skill in doctoriug cats. dogs
and birds, has died of the grip.
CHIEF JUSTICE CoRuss of North Dakota re-
fuses to accept railroad passes. He is a y0ung-
ster, but the people evidently knew what they
were about when they put him where he is
RICHARD THOMAS, who died in West Haven
Conn. recently at the age of % years was born
and always lived in the house where he died
The house is believed TO have stood $50 years
WARD MCALLIsrER talks as unassumlngly as
he dresses lie has a funny habit of inter
sperslng his remarks With, You see, don't YOU
know: you understand, but they seem to come
naturally to him.
Mas. LEVI P morton teaches her daughters
letter writing by giving them her own notes to
answer. If the effort pleases her it is stamped
and posted If not, corrections are made and
the copy returned.
saying that Australian ladies have no beauty
the birds don't sing, the flowers don't smell
and the dogs don't bark l can safely testify
to the truth of this saying.
ARCHDUKE JOSEPH of Hungary. who is great
student of gypsy lore is of the opinion that the
slopes of the Himilaya mountains were the
homes of all the gypsies at present in Europe.
where their first appearance is traced to the
year l4i7.
LOUISE NJ. ALcoTr received So for her first
story, which was written when she was I6 She
lived to receive So 900 for one story She worked
long and hard before she made much money
In 1854, after twelve years of literary labor she
made only SAG Miss Alcott was a devoted
sister and daughter, but never knew the Joy or
sorrow of love.
DAVID D. LLOYD, author of For Congress -
1.-THE Dominie's Daughter, THE Senator. - and
other successful plays, was once the private
secretary of Chief Justice Chase IL is a rather
singular fact, showing how small the world
really is, that Jacob w. SchukerS, Eugene t.,
Didier, and David d. Lloyd all former secreta
ries of Chief Justice Chase, should reside not
long since, in the little town of Belleyille n j.
THE BABY-KING ALPHoNso OF SPAIN is now a
godfather. The other day his ambassador at
st. Petersburg solemnly accepted in the name
of his majesty tn duty of seeing that the son
of the Comte and Confess de Morella renounces
the pomps and vanities of this wicked world
As the king is only three years older than his
god-child, he may find the task of forcing the
latter into the paths of virtue uncommonIy
difficult. BY curious coincidence the little de
Morella's grandfather was Cabrera, the noted
Carlist leader, who for years held Queen lsa-
belia's forces at bay. 1t was he who, on the
evening before battle, appeared in the camp
OF The rival commander and suggested that in
stead of allowing their men TO kill one another
he and ESDarterO should throw with dice for the
victory. They did So and ESparterl won. Cab
rera scrupuously kept his word and comported
himself in all ways as if he had been defeated
He was one of the men who loved, with almost
equal ardor intrigue and warfare.