The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-12
PERSONAL.

MRS AND MISS RUsK are among the most
popular entertainers in Washington.
THE LATE EhIPREss AUGUSTA left Queen Vic
toria a splendid gold bracelet, containing the
words For ever" set in precious stones.
MISS FLETCHER, who has been for a long time
among the Indian tribes of Nebraska and Da-
kota, will soon return east with valuable mon
ograph on Indian music that she has nearly
THE MARRIAGE of the Archduchess Valerie,
youngest daughter of the Emperor of Austria
to the Archduke Francis Salvador will take
place privately at Ische on Aug. Is, the sixtieth
birthday OF the emperor.
MR. FRoUDE is passing the winter at Sal
combe, the beautiful villege near Start Point,
which has one of the most romantic harbors
in the country. Mr.. Froude is gagged in pre-
pairing book on Lord Beaconsfeld.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES has been appointed
to the Excellent for a short course of gunnery.
He has completed the necessary qualifying
service of four years as lieutenant. ami prob
ably will be promoted commander very soon.
An ENTHUSIASTIC SHAKER, Elder Evans writes
long letter to the Albany Journal in which he
expresses some curious political ideas, and
dominates Robert 6. lngersoH for the presi-
dercy, on the ground that he is the most truly
American of all the prominent men in the
country
THE MASSACHUSETTS, HUMANE SOCIETY has
awarded a gold medal to Capt. Norman H. Far
quhar, U. 5. ~, late of the United States
and bravery displayed in the rescue of 40 of
the officers and crew of the United States
steamer Vandalia at Apia, Samoa March 16,
1889
FLORENCE ST. JOHN, the English singer, in
forms a reporter in Philadelphia that the way
to pronounce her name is as if it were spelled
Sinjun. lover here" quoth this vivacious
songstress, people call it Saint John. with a
hefty accent on the saint, and / don't claim
any relationship with st. John the Baptist,
either"
IT IS REGARDED in Washington as a strange
coincidence that Walker Baine's death oc-
Cured on the fourth anniversary of the sudden
death of Mr.. Bayard's daughter Katherine. 1t
is not generally known, too, that Mr.. Walter
Damrosch played the organ at the funeral of
the man who did the most to bring about the
engagement between the musician and Margaret
Blaine
THE EMPRESS AUGUSTA, at the age of 81,
once figured in the uniform of a lieutenant of
artillery in the streets Of Berlin. When her
husband was about to leave for England, during
the riots in 1915 sac brought some very valuable
documents from the Prince of PruSSas resi-
dence into the royal palace, clothed in the man
ner described above. This was on March 10,
and so excellent was her disguise that no one
recognized her.
REV. FREDERIc& TAYLOR GATES, secretary of
the American Baptist Education Society, has
been recommended by leading Baptist eouca-
tors for the presidency of the new university
which John d. Rockefeller is helping to build in
Chicago. MIR. Gates home is at Racine, Wis.
Until recently he was pastor of the Central
Baptist church OF Minneapolis, Mimi He is a
comparatively young man. having been gradu-
ated at the University of Rochester in the class
of 1877.
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL GARRISON is
about t resign One of his friends recently
said: "Clarkson will resign in less than ninety
days from this date. He is weary of the
pharisaical ways of the administration. He is
politicians who believes In rewarding, as far
as may be-, the men who did the work and
made the election of Harrison possibility. He
finds the active workers of the party shunted
off on a side track aud the dilettantes who,
when fight was on simply stood around in the
way. railroaded into Office. To be short and
plain he is disguised, and as soon as he eau
protect some political paper he has out he will
shake hands with himself and quiz