The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
PERSONAL.

Mrs CELIA THsxTER. the New England poet
ess whose home On the Isles of Shoals has been
one OF the grandest attractions to visitors there
Is seriously Ill Of a combination of nervous dis
eases
GEORGE W. CABLE has returned to Boston
from an extended tour through the south,
where be has been gathering material for new
novel,
II. RocHEFoRT's PURCHASE Of Sir Francis
Grants portrait of Landseer. as gift TO the
British nation, is considerable Of a surprise to
i Englishmen.
JOHN c. WOOD, who is an active member of
the life saving crew at Atlantic CITY, is reputed
to be worth $4,000, 600, inherited from a rich
uncle in Paris.
EMILE BLANCHARD, president OF Frances
Academy of Science, announces that he can
/ make silk straight from the material of the
mulberry leaf without resorting 10 the silk
worm
MISS ETHEL CHASE SPRAGUE, who it was re-
Gently announced had given up all idea of
| going on the stage, made her debut in Buffalo
p, last Monday evening, and is said to have made
/ a hit.
DU MAuRIER, Punch's we'll known carcaturist.
lives in elegant leisure at Hampstead. He oc-
cupies there big house that is filed with his
wonderful collection of old engravings and
II
Miss Dolores MARBoURe, the author of one
of last years popular novels. has gone to
| Europe for a prolonged residence and literary
| work. She has Just finished a new novel writ
ten in collaboration with George Cary Eggle-
| ston.
! If there is any one thing in particular which
Cyrus w. Field the well known millionaire,
detests, it is the smell of tobacco smoke.
Cigars. and even pipes, he thinks bad enough,
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d. DUMAS, the younger, is 66, hale, vigorous
and broadshouldered, with gray hair, the
ample forehead of thinker, and shrewd.
satirlca expression about his mouth. He is
very r1cb, and lives with his books and his
grandchildren in the Avenue de Viiliers, Paris.
KING HuMBERT is a prudent monarch, and
does well to be SO in the present state of the
Kingdoms finances. Last year the civil list for
the royal household was is, $4,000 francs, and
the king spent 49, $40, $3.50 francs, leaving cent
and three-quarters to his credit for the ensuing
year.
JOHN FL. KRAUsE, retired wholesale grocery
merchant of Philadelphia, offers to give $50 900
toward the providing of a hospital at Potts
| town, Pa, il the Kings Daughters, who now
nave 50, 000 toward it, will succeed in getting
contributions amounting to his proposed gift
In addition he will give $4,000 in trust, the in
| come of which is to furnish free bed in the
hospital as soon as it is completed.
STEWART WILLIAM. who died in 1882 in India
| had married the daughter of Begun and
adopted her religion He was afterward re-
| converted to christianity. His widow and son
| have claim on the Gardner peerage in Eng
( land, and the London World thinks there will
| be an interesting suit some d ~ to settle the
succession to the title although it is not worth
| a shilling. The new Tichborne claimant might
turn his attention upon this opportunity.
| JAMES WHITcoNB RILEY recently wrote to a
magazine editor who had offered him large
price for poem: I'D like to engage to write
| such poem you outline could see a clear
way to its conception. Like engagements, old,
| old, centuries old, are slowly making me hon
| est enough with latter patrons to tell them
| frankly that my soundest promises won't hold
| shucksi mean well, but seem helplessly per-
verse in the righteous fuhllment of all orders
| By this you are most justly TO infer that my
| poetry, however poor, is better than my word.
| The verse must go, therefore, as turn it loose
first come, first served, with great liberal
| landscapes of allowances