The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-17
PERSONAL

BoUIAseER's mother was an English woman.
CARDINAL TAscHERAU entered the priesthood
in 1874
MoDJzsKA will return to this country In No
vember.
LORD woLsELEY began life as a clerk 10 Sta
tionery store in Dublin.
MAJ. WILLIAM G. MOORE, chief OF the Wash
ington police. was private secretary TO Presi-
dent Andrew johnson.
Mrs. WESTINGHOUSE, the wife Of the air brake
millionaire Of Pittsburg. is a blonde. and
dresses elegantly. Her diamonds are worth
$4,000.
MISS SIBYL SASDERsoH, the young American
singer, appeared in the opera of Esclarmonde,
in Brussels. Saturday right, and scored bril-
liant success.
PRESIDENT HERRERA OBEs Of Uruguay has
no palace, and lives modestly in rooms over
milliners shop on one of the principal streets
of Montevi1eo.
CHARLES GIBSON Of St. Louis, Mo-, upon
whom Emperor William bestowed the order of
the crown, has gone to Berlin to thank the en-
peror in person.
GES. GREELY's name was proposed for mem
bership in the American Ass ociation for tie
Advancement of Science at the recent meeting
IN Indianapolis
Col. EVAN SMITH, British con I'll general at
Zanzibar, has presented medals of the Royal
Geographical Society to many of Stanley's
former followers.
ABBE LIE PAILLEUR, who founded the order Of
the Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of
the Poor, has resigned his superintendency. He
Is nearly 50 years old.
LIEUT.. JOHN NJ FINLEY, United States Army,
b,I ,oa
meteorological theses, was formerly clerk to
Senator Butler of South Carolina.
ISAAC T. SMITH, a wealthy New Yorker, who
represents the Siamese government as consul at
that port, sailed for Siam. via Suez, Saturday,
to visit the oriental monarch by special invita-
ton.
GEORGE TIcKNoR CURTIS will contribute to
HGrper's Magazine for October some recollec-
tons of the early days of n P. Willis, and also
OF Mrs. Lydia Maria Francis. afterward Mrs
Child. whose literary career began about the
same time.
THE indefatigable Shakespearian scholar and
editor, DR.. William j. Rolfe, has prepared
edition of Shakespeare poems, which will soon
be issued by Harper Brothers. This will be the
first thoroughly annotated edition of the poems
published in this country.
EMPRESS ELIZABETH of Austria, who is travel
ing in the strctest incognto as Mrs. Nicholson,
arrived recently in Paris SO Unexpectedly that
not even the personnel of the Austrian embassy
were at the station to receive her, and the en-
press, as well as her suite. drove in cabs to the
MOTEL
READERS of the journal Of Maria Bashkirtseff
will be interested to learn that her painting,
The Meeting," has been purchased by the
French government and placed in the Luxem-
bourg palace. Here it will remain, according
TO the rule, until the tenth year following the
artists death, when it will be placed either in
the Louvre or at Versailles
Col HENRY PAGE, democratic nominee for
congress in the First Maryland district, was ad
mitted to the bar in 1854 and has practised for
many years at Princess Anne, Somerset county.
He was member of the constitutional conven-
ton of 1867 He married Miss Virginia Dennis
OF Worcester county, and one of his sons is
now member of the senior class at Prince
ton.