The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-06
PERSONAL.

MARK TWAIN. in his home life at Hartford.
finds great comfort in the society of an amiable
black cat that he has named Satan
From his home in Dubuque, Senator Allison
makes proclamation that he intends to stick
right there in the state until the senatorial light
is settled.
BILL NYE. who was rather careless in his
dress, has blossOmed out as man OF fashion, a
Broadway dandy almost dude, since his visit
to Paris last summer
EMPRESS ELIZABETH of Austria was one of the
| most beautiful women in Europe before the
traglcal death of her only son, the archduke
| crushed her 10 the earth.
CUrHBERT BEDE, the author of 'Verdant
| Gre n, was, like ThacKeray, n clever draughts-
man, and has left many pictures of his hero
| sketched with the utmost detail.
B. HARRISON, President, sports sealskin-
| lined overcoat, a Christmas present from his
spouse. From the lady's ears flash diamond
solitaires, presented by her lord and master.
| President ELIOT says that Harvard is the
on college from which professor was ever
taken for President of the United States, John
| Quincy Adams having held the chair of rhetoric
| and atory in that institution.
SIGNoR SALvINI at home in Florence is said
| to be one of the most hosptable of men, and
| his house is continually thronged with guests
| He has a country place, out on the Bolo ma
road whittier he goes now and then for retire
ment
| MRS dAGGARD OF BTduenlafn, England. the
mother of Rider Haggard, lately died at the age
| of Co. Soc was an accomplished woman of
! literary tastes and was known as the author of
| volumes of verse. One of these was tale Of
| the Afghan war.
Mrs. JANIS Brown PoTrER's DAUGHTER. Pan.
line, is a strange, bright-eyed child, with queer
solitary ways. and but rarely associates with
| the other children. She is said to be studious
| in the extreme, and although but in her 18th
| year, she speaks French and Italian fluently.
| On a recent outgoing steamer were a dozen
| barrels of L NJ Island oysters, bound for Wind
| sor castle They have been selected with great
| care, and their shells have been sand papered
and polished until they are as smooth as a we'll
| worn pocketbook.
| lying dangerously i'll with consumption in Wash
ington She has made long tignt against the
disease and has spent great deal of time of
late years in Florida. She was too weak this
season to come south, and her physicians give
little hope OF her ever being stronger
KING HuMBERr of Italy is looking very old.
His hair and mustache have turned white The
royal family in Italy is not in good condition
The king has bronchial trouble, Queen Mar
garet IS suffering from toothache. and the
Prince of Naples, heir apparent to the throne
is in state of mental and physical collapse
Hon. DANIEL DoUGHERTY said in recent Iect-
ure that the strongest and most prevalent
preiudice now existing in the Unite d States
NehS tlab e.ssllllot HNOHidu ChtuOllCS anu Il6
Roman Catholic church. So fixed was this
prejudice that it colored the minds of educated
ProtestantS without their being conscious of it.
NuMA GILLY, eX-mayor of Mines, whose So
called Revelations about leading French
politicians and cabinet ministers got him into
hot water some time since, has been released
from the prison of Sainue- Pelagis in Paris He
had SHARED his impr sonment for some time
with his publisher, NJ. Savine, and NJ. Chirac,
one of his colleagues in the compilation of the
famous 'Dossiers." NJ. Gully states that he was
remarkably well treated in Sainte- Pelagie, and
he now intends to return TRANQUILITY to his
cooperage at Mines, where he will resume his
trade, and think twice before he Identifies him
self with politics and politicians again.