The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
PERSONAL.

| DIVINE & BIBLE is the name of a firm engaged
| in the whisky business at Jericho Springs Mo.
| They do not represent the spirit of the script
| ures
| Miss I#TET1A ALDRfoH. niece of Senator
| Stewart of Nevada, it is ANNOUNCED is to go on
the stage, making her debut on Jan 8 in Wash
| ington.
| CORPORAL TANNER will be a guest of the
| Butler Club of Boston, and will make a speech
! at the dinner on the anniversary of the battle
| of New Orleans
Mrs. FANNIE B. WARD has started on a trip as
news correspondent through South America
| The journey will occupy year, and will extend
through every division of that country.
| WASHINGTON PEOPLE are said to be appre
hensive that the novel which the widow of
Gen. Ricketts, is writing will portray some
incidents in their lives with rather too much
vividneSs.
The REV. T. DE WIrr TALMAGE is rich. He
makes moro than any other lecturer and
lectures oftener. He S up for the highest bid
der and inexperienced managers of lyceums
take great risks ON him, but the doctor has an
invarable rule, Settle before the lecture and
avoid misunderstanding.
BEN BUFFERS eccentric attire is the subject
of considerable gossip in Washington When
he envelops his short chunky figure in a thick
fur oyercoat, with the fur outside, and pulls a
fur cap over his ears he is said to look like AN
Esquimau. He varies this costume occasionally
by wearing somorero in place of the fur cap.
MAJ. j. B. PoND says Richard A. Proctor the
astronomer cleared $4,000 in one lecture sea-
son in Australia, and John B. Cough Thomas
Mast, and others have made as high or bipber
amounts in this country. Maj Pond thinks that
l5lll Nye is increasing his bank account by about
$1,000 a week from his writings and entertain
ments.
JOHN w. BooKwALTER, one of the democratic
senatorial candidates in Ohio, owns the LARGEST
cultivated farm in this country. II lies on the
Nebraska line, south of Beatrice, and the
Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern
road runs through it. Il contains nearly 10 900
acres, covering twenty square miles, all under
an excellent state OF cultivation.
SPEAKING of the new House of Representa-.
tives correspondent says: There are no
Blacks and, strange TO say, there are no Whites
or GrayS, and what is more remarkable. there
is not single Jones. There is a Mr.. Abbott
ana also a MIR. Cowles There is a Mr.. Flood
and a Mr.. Ranes. There is a Grain, a Parrett'
Hare, aud a Bullock. There is Flower. a
Spooner, a Post, and a Stump. There is a
Knapp, aud Goodnight. Bland, Wilev and
Frank are good friends
EMfN PAsHA's FALL from the balcony is av
planned by the Liverpool Mercury: ut was
the banquet in the desert that did il For
many years Emin had been deep in Africa far
from champagne. He had embraced Moham-
mechanism and had followed the abstaining
commands of the prophet No sooner is he
brought back to civilization than the Gun is sat
before him again, with such consequences that
ne VINO was TGSCucu lEOul uedJn IN the WllQS is
nearly prey to death on the confines of
chriStendom."
The RECENT DUCKING EXPEDITION of President
Harrison, Senators Edmunds, Hawley. and
others, has reminded Washington club men of
a hunting excursion taken by President HAYES
and Secretary Thompson some years ago. They
set cut on board the government boat the
Despatch. They steamed down the Potomac
seeking ducks, but were not very successful
on their return somebody asked Char CIV
Thompson, the secretary's son. if the President
shot anything. Shot anythingr' exclaimed
the young man in disgust; "he shot off nothing
excepting his mouth"