The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-06
PERSONAL.

IT IS SAID that the marriage of another
daughter of the Prince of Wales has been ar
ranged, and that it will be publicly announced
in April
KING HUMBERT of Italy is a vegetarian His
physicians will not permit him to drink coffee,
and his only beverage is Bordeaux and water
His favorite fruit is the peach. He suffers con-
stantly from dyspepsia.
HANS Won BULow has resigned, in huff his
position as pianist to the German court, and
now advertises himself in the papers of his ma
tive country pianist in ordinary to his mai
esty, the German people"
Hon. JOHN PRENTIss Poe, of the present Mary
land Senate, is of the nearest living relatives
of the author of the Raven" Mr. Poe has
none of the poetical gifts of his immortal cousin
but he is a Woodworking lawyer and politician.
JOHN STEVENSON, who is lying seriously ill at
New Rochelle, and whose street cars are to be
found in nearly every civilized country, was
born in the north of Ireland, of English and
Scotch parents, in 1909: He was brought to
America when years old. Aside from his i'm
portance as a manufacturer, he has distin-
guished himself as Sunday school teacher and
a choir leader.
JAY GOULD pays $4,000 year for his pew in
DR. Halls church. Although fairly regular at
the morning service, he never appears in the
evening. Russell Sage, on the contrary, is in his
slip at both services The combined contribu-
tons of these financial christians are estimate
at $1,000 a year. or 81 900 a month. All name
less offerings of $500 or more. which are by no
means rare, are attributed to these gentlemen
MARIE THEREsE, the French Sister of Mercy,
who has Just received the cross of the Legion of
Honor at the han Is of the Governor of Tonauin.
was only 20 years of age when she received her
first wound in the trenches. of Balaklava. She
was wound ID again at the battle of Magenta.
She served her country in Syria, China and
Mexico. From the battlefield at Woerth she
was carried away suffering from serious INJURIES,
an before she had recovered she was again
performing her duties.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON" says an acquain-
lance of his in New York, hasn't been, to my
thinking looking only for health and writing
material in the South Seas. Do you know
have good reason to think he has been bitten
with the craze to search out buried treasure,
and that he has real Treasure Island some
where in view. Mr.. Knight you know, the
young English barrister who made the voyage,
from Great Britain to Rio in small boat, and
described it in the Cruise of the Falcon has
actually equipped vessel and gone to the
on which, he declares, vast sums in gold coin
were buried by pirates. Neither Stevenson nor
KING { is insane, at least l don't think they
are. D."
r. D. BLAcKMoRE, known the world over as
the author of Lorna Doone," continues to
write with all his old-time assiduity and with
much Of his old-time force. lie is brisk old
gentleman, and as a sort of ayocation or amuse-
ment he cultivates grapes and fruits In his
large gardens in one of the suburbs Of Lond n.
Some time ago he discovered that one OF his
gardeners had purloined and sold S25 worth OF
pears, and the old gentleman has been in a con
dition Of great mental perturbatioi ever since.
Lorna Doone" has reached its eighteenth edi-
ton. And everybody who reads it wonders
whether IL were possible Tor any man 70 be
strOn enough % pull the muscle out Of another
mans arm. Blackmore has received thousands
of letters this subject.