The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-04
PERSONAL.

The POPE can neither read nor speak English
and the language is practically an unknown
tongue at the Vatican.
EMIN PAsHA has been made doctor of phil
osophy. This is right. He has displayed great
philosophy under adverse circumstances
QUEEN VICTORIA receives $40 or more letters n
day. AS they all bear the odor of disinfectants
1t Is no wonder that the old lady is not well
B. II. HILL, JR., of the late Senator Hill of
Georgia will publish this year volume of 500
or 100 pages containing his fathers speeches
ARAB PASTA is said to contemplate a trip To
London. He should cross over TO Ireland and
scrape acquaintance with the welkuown
'Arrah BE Alsy!"
GEORGE francis TRAIN gave a reception to
Max OIell In Boston, on Saturday. and a hun
dred unconventional BoStonianS made up q very
plquant assembly.
MAX MARETzEK says that opera singers are
enormous eaters. Christine Nilsson. saws Max
was once so hungry that she ate a sausage he
had carried in his pockets since the day before
THE Grown PRINCESS SOPHIE of Greece is
learning % play the Hungarian cymbal, an in
Strument which has much that is attractive in
It's tones, as is known to those who have heard
the hungarian band.
EDWARD GBIEG, the Norwegian composer. is
the rage at fashionable London musicaIes AT
present. His wife sings his Morse songs while
he accompanies. and is greatly praised for
pathos and simplicity.
THE CoMTE DE PARIS has long contemplated a
visit to this country, and will probably extend
the trip which is now announced so as to cover
all the scenes of the civil war, OF which he has
written such an excellent history.
THE REV. T.. DEWITT TALMAGE knows the
value OF the newspapers. Il could preach n
whole sermon on the everlasting blessing of a
good newspaper. good newspaper is the
grandeSt temporary blessing that God has given
To the people of this country
HENRY JAMES. the novelist saws that he never
experienced the tender passion. Well. well.
what queer man Certainly he has never
put any passion into his writings. We advise
Henry James TO go at once and fall in love
Such proceedings will add TO his literary
grasp.
EXPLORER STANLEY, in a letter to one of his
friends, says My hair is like snow from Ru-
wenzori, but it is the crown of a busy period
and wear it without regret as the gift of time >
If his hair was like snow from this section he
would have very little of it, to use a somewhat
bald comparison.
FERDINAND WARD, whose financial Napoleon
ism landed him at last in Sing Sing prison looks
like physical wreck. He is bent and lifeless
and MS cheeks are sunken. His face has be-
become white, and he looks ten years older than
when be entered the prison. He has become
very expert typeSetter.
Bruno RAINsDoRFF, who, until recently. as
sisted Johann Most in editing the Freiheit in New
York. has been arrested at Pegau, GERMANY
He is in danger of losing his head on the scat
fold. There is conclusive evidence to show that
he murdered Commissary of Police Rumpf of
Frankfurt-on- Main in 1886.
ROBERT NIvEN a London barrister is in Bos-
ton, where he is delivering a course of lectures
He says; 1t would not surprise me if before
die there is not crowned head in Europe
Ideas are in the air and events move rapidly
Two years aSoths theory of imperial federation
was not regarded as practicable; now it is
recognized as within the sphere of practical
marty Dotics This is q great gain "