The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-17
PER SONAL.


ksPEEER wILLIAx is al ardent amateur pho
tograph=r.
SENATOR LELAND SrAsFosD OF California (.
estimated 70 be WORTH ss0oo0.O01.
JAMES P. s3orT. son OF Thomas A Scott. late
/ president OF the Pennsylvania railroad, pro
poses b. way OF experiment to plant a thousand
acres Ii rice near Kiss uInee, fla
/ TIE Georgia stuients at the Vanderbilt Uni
versity have organized a Georgia club. Theil
/ object IS 70 promote social intercourse among
the students attending Vanderbilt who come
/ from Georgia
PRoF. ROBERT AUsTiS Of the British Mint
estimates that the great smoke cloud that over
hangs London IS 5aO tons in weight. and con
"a rs carbon aud csrb0nis acid gas Of the yearly
| value OF -, OO.o0o
HENRY GEoRoE. for the first time in his life,
is now confined 20 his be by sickness, and his
conoiJson a. one time quite serious. He re-
turned 70 New YORK from the south not long
SINCE very much Frustrated.
NATHANIEL THAYER is called the Vanderbilt of
Boston. lie has q fortune OF $4,000, 900. in.
vesjei for the most part in western railways.
he belongs 70 a numbar Of fashionable clubs
and Keeps stable full Of fast horses.
GOO TALENo, the new Japanese minister TO
Washington. who is expected TO assume tile
post by the end OF next month. was leading
member OF the committee that received and
entertained Gen. Grant during the latt.r's visit
to Japan.
CoS0EsssNAS BIgss Of California is some
thing Of sport. One Of his colleagues made
a STATE nent on the floor Of the House the other
LAY, ana bEgs rose and offered TO bet 5000 to
Sioo that ths statement wasn't true. Biggs
ought 10 retire and open faro bank.
REV. Mr.. HEMsRE Of Oklahoma, upon being
cenSured by bis pres6yt=ry. pulled out "a couple
OF revolvers and expressed the opinion that toe
preSoysery would take 1t back" Despite the
reVolTets the resolvers declined the slIg question
ana aIter public officer nad carried out the
ley. n, me other brethren carried out the
order OF the day.
IHE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA, since the tragic
death of her son, has avoided the capital as
mucn as has been possible for her to 40 she
mucn prefers the solitude of the vast forests
winch surround the imperial residences The
empress IS still one Of the handsome women of
europe Her step is elastic, her carriage easy
anu erect, and sne is even now the superb
hoTsewornan that she was in her youth
JULIAN HAWTHORNE says; The fact remains
that the Harper Bros. did, on the advice of their
readers, decline the RuiyarI KipIing stories
1nis shows that the readers did not know dia-
mond when they saw II; it also shows that the
readers employed By HarperS are the most phe-
nomenally stupid examples OF a proverbially
stupid class. l am NOT sure that Harper Bros
readers did not once reject q book of my own. -
MING kALAKAuAs business in this country, it
is now said, is to arrange for the publication of
2 book he has written. 1t is an ambitious essay
on the comprehensive subject of Mankind" in
which his majesty discusses the Dawinlan the
ory IL connection with ths current religious be-
lieIS theoSophy and SpiriJua ism. His ideas
IN many cases, are strikingly unconventional
and the work prom ses 10 become one oftne Gu
nO6it.es of literature