The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-04
PERSONAL.

NOAH ARMSTRONG. owner of the great race
horse Spokane, reports that his famous steed
has cleared this season about $4,000.
M. RoTHscHmD has presented $4,000 to the
city OF Paris for the relief of the poor who are
suffering from influenza in that place.
SrEPNIAK, who is coming to this country next
year, IS described as black-haired, bristly-
bearded, vigorous looking 6footer with gentle
manners and kindly ways.
MAYOR DAVIDSON of Baltimore announces
that ofhce-holders must either pay their legiti-
mate debts or leave the city's service. Office
holding isn't what it used to be.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON when last heard
from, was at Bataritari, in the Gilbert islands
He reported himself "quite well and stouter
than he mas ever been in all his life before"
MARY RoUTH ELLIS of Philadelphia. one of
the beneficiaries under the will of the late
Jefferson Davis is the grandniece of the testator
on her fathers side, and of Gen. Meade on her
mothers side.
Ma. EDISON sent as a Christmas gift to Arch
| duchess Elizabeth, daughter of the late Arch
duke Rudolph Grown Prince of Austria. A
| Photographic doll, which talks a great deal and
| reclteS some verses.
The LATE ALEXANDER HAMILTON, grandson of
the revolutionary tinancier, was the foupder of
the arlstocratc and exclusive Knickerbocker
Club of New York, and was its president up to
| the time of his death.
Mrs. MARTHA KAH of Cheyenne county. Me-
! braska, is living in Manly, in the French Congo
one of the most u civilized parts of West
Africa, without white companions instructing
| the natives and cheerfully performing all the
duties that devolve upon her as a missionary.
Hon. HANNIBAL HAMI1N said recently, on pre-
senting a flag TO a Bangor Me-, school: Per
haps little history of this flag will not be out
of place. First. consider the beautiful red
stripes, an emblem of valor; the white an en-.
| blem of purity; the blue field, the broad arch
| of heaven, and the Stars which bestud it, the
| freest government on earth"
Mrs. WARD MCALLIsrER devotes the greater
part of her time TO literature. she is a re-
marSably well-read woman She is a sub
| scriher to hosts of magazines and periodicals Of
| all descriptions and is an encyclopedia on A
| great many subjects She has a very large and
well-choSen library, to which she is constantly
adding. She is regarded as an authority on
| American geneaiogy
CLAUS Spreckels, says friend of his '.Iooks
| so much like the conventional idea of Santa
| Claus, the Christmas saint, that no one ought
| to be surprised at his being named Claus The
| old sugar king has a full white beard ROSY
| cheeks, and luXuriant snowy hair. He is even
| as benevolent in quiet way as his Christmas
| nameSake is on large scale, and his family
| and employees are devoted to him. Mr. Spreck-
| els knows the sugar business from the cane
| field to the refined product. When the refinery
was being built sar the foot Of Reed street in
Philadelphia, at cost of more than $1,000 600
a quantity of the most expensive machinery in
the plant was put in wrong, and when Mr.
SpreckelS saw it he recognized the error at a
| glance. AS a practical machinist, he leaned
into the excavation had the whole mass of iron
and steel yanked out, and personally superin-
tended its proper erection. Few millionaire
operators in any business know its ms and outs
so thoroughly as he"