The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-24
PERSONAL


BESJANIS P. SHILLAsER Mrs. Partlngton'O
was 20 years old on Saturday.
SARAH BERNHARDr saysthat whenever she has
ft Of anger it is invariably followed by sick
ness, and the wonder Is. therefore that Sarah
Is not bedrldden ali the time.
CAPT. WILLIAMS Of Jacksonville. Pa. twenty
years blind, is recovering his sig |. He thinks
the glare in his room Of an electric light has
something to do with the recovery.
OSCAR WILDE announces that he is tired OF
being gratutously advertised. and that the
''chroniclsr'' no longer interests him. The
chron'clers interest in Mr. Wilde is perhaps,
equally languid.
HERBERT GLADSTONE Is described by a Lon
don letter-writer as a milk and-water young
man, member of parliament, good tennis
about $ years of age.
Ex-PosTNAsTER GENERAL JAMES sympathizes
with the striAing London postmen. He says
they are greatly underpaid, receiving less than
halt tue pay OF our pos, men, and they are com
PEELED TO do much more work.
Gov. PENNoYER of Oregon must be accredited
with the possession a head OF extraordinary
length. He has declined an invitation to UNI
pre- game of base ball between the lawyers
and real estate men of Portland.
TIE old homestead of Alice and Phebe Cary
belongs TO Mr.. Alexander Swift of Cincinnati,
who married a sister of the p cts Mr. Swift
IS making arrangements to have the house pre-
served as memorial TO the distinguished
sisters.
THERE is one thing certain, says the in
vincible John L. Sullivan, when l train TO
meet Jackson or any other new conner III di-
rect my own work. No man shall ever have
the chance again to claim the credit of making
me win battle"
t:..1-
Fiji are inseparable companions at Tuxedo.
The admiring affection which the girl used to
display toward her mother seems now to be
concentrated on her father. It is said that Mr.
Potter never speaks in public of his absent
wife.
HENRY NJ. STAELEY's first appearance in New
York will be in behalf of charity. The proceeds
of his first lecture will go to the Fresh Air and
Convalescent Home at summit, n. J. The lect-
ure will take place Nov. IL in the Met sop0litan
Opera House, and will doubtless be brilliant
event,
MRS. EVA B. HART died recently near Syracuse.
n Y, aged 113 years. Until within two years of
her death she was hard working woman, doing
her own cooking, baking, washing and ironing
1t was the boast of tn old lady that she was
never sick day in her life, nor took a drop Of
doctor medicine. Ever since the children can
remember Mrs. Hart had smoked her pipe. The
absence OF the doctors and the presence of the
btPO "AS oho AOund W De tuo ollAlT Oh lllo.
The APPEAL of Gen. Van Merriam to the Water
loo veterans of the Dutch and Belgian legion
has been repeated in Germany hy the war
office authorities with still more surprising re-
suits, says the Lon ion World. No fewer than
Twenty-Five survivors of Bluchers army re-
sponded to the call, the senior. Johan Duchse
having attained the patriarchal age of 107 This
man was already 80, and the father of numer-
ous family. when he fought at Ligny. Six
others are now centenariaus lone being 1867, and
the youngest 81. Those who have a weakness
for the longevity question should certainly pay
a visit to Germany