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


Dr.. PARKE. the surgeon Of Mr.. SANKEY'S ex-
petition, has been visiting his old home il Ire
land His fatheris landlord, a Protestant and
tory, and lives in an almost exclusively
catholic and home rule district.
A CENSUS -ENUNERAToR in Philadelphia has
discovered Philip c. Drumel, who is ~ years
old and the father of nineteen children. He
was a drummer boy with Napoleon at Moscow,
ana ms father served under Lafayette at York
town.
HIRAM LUEENs a compostor on the Doyles-
town pa iateHi0eHcer. began work IN that
office June p, 1882, and has stood 1T the same
case ever since. He celebrated the ffty-eighth
anniversary last Saturday week by visit TO his
mother home in Norristown-
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw will sail for Europe July
2 and thus again will spend Fourth of July
upon the water. Only once or twice in many
years mas Mr.. Depew been able TO expend his
patriotic fervor on that day in his native land.
lie viii os gone about two months.
THE anniversary season at Mr.. Moody's
schools at Mount Hermon and Mortified has
been marked by the announcement of gifts of
S5U,OCo each from the late D. VI. Weston, presl
dent OF the board of trustees at Mortified, and
from frederick Billings Of Woodstock, Vt.
SIR JOHN Pope HENNEssEY, who has earned an
excellent reputation as colonial governor. owns
and lives in the historic mansion which belonged
~ 81 " aAlSE HIlelSl. al OuEEdi iDIbtOuuNtu
yawl which was the scene of that busy adj
venturer famous attempt 10 naturalize the po-
tato and uprooJ the Irishman.
Col JOSEPH LEFFEL, a candidate for alder
man in Springfield, is the smallest man in Ohio.
He is nve inches less in hight than the late Gen.
Tom thumb, and fourteen pounds lighter He
is 81 years old, and smaller than the youngest
OF his children. Col. Leffel is a fluent talker
and man of great intelligence.
Mas. HERMAN OLRIcHs received a wedding
gift from King Kalakuna, a yellow wreath,
which was greatly admired. 1t was made of
the feathers of the goiden-hued 90, a bird
highly priced in Hawaii There are but two OF
these bright feathers pluched from each bird.
The BIRDS are taken only in a snare, stringent
law having been passed against shooting them.
TIE Rome correspondent of the Freemdn's
Journal of Philadelphia writes that the pope
has again honored an American in the person
Of Francis Montague Handley. privy chamber
lain OF his holiness and head of the Anglo
American Bank in the Plaza di Spagna. He
has been made knight commander OF the Order
of St; Gregory the Great. He is a native of
New York.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES attended a Saliva
tion Amy meeting during his last Sunday
night in London, and perceiving a hoodlum
VINO was perched upon afountain acting rudely
ann lnterrupting the exercises, went and pulled
the fellow down without ceremony to the great
delight of the hallelujah lasses Prince George
is going to do his own chaplaincy on the Thrush,
of which he has command.
Mas. CATHERINE SHARP of Philadelphia is IL
years old, and lives in a house with five genera
tions of her offspring, all of whom, with one ex-
ceptlon, are Of the gentler sex. The centena-
riaD has one daughter, Mrs. Mary Ii. Smith, ~
years old. Then there is a granddaughter who
Is Mrs. Smiths daughter, whose name is Mrs.
Annie E. Wilson, 40 years old. Next on the
genealogical tree is young married great
granddaughter, Mrs. Mamie Wetheriil, aged %
daughter of Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Wetherill's two
baby daughters are the great great-grand-
daughters