The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-19
PERSONAL.

Miss EAsTLAKE writes with goose quill. Her
signature can be read across the room
JOHN BURNS had an offer OF. $40 for the old
straw hat he wore during the great dock strike
at London.
A PORTRAIT Of William Lloyd Garrison has
been presented tothe public school at Wash
ington which bears his name.
The QUEEN OF THE BELGIASs is one of the best
equestrians in THAI country, and can drive six
INLAND with grace and safety.
DR. SooTT, the father-in-law of President
Harrison. is at the head of two sets of descend
ants with four generations in each.
E. N. ScoTr of Liverpool. Eng. the wealth.
est shiPbuilder ia the world, is in Philadelphia.
de is taking look at the American ship yards.
Ex-KHe MILAN is said to be anxious to re-
lieve his chronically impecunious condition by
marrying the wealthy widow Barrios of Gaute-
mala-
BEERS is the name of the Austrian sculptor
who has succeeded in discovering process for
molding marble fluid precisely as bronze is
nodded.
The Rev. ANNA SHAW is one Of the best speak
ers IN the service of the Womans Temperance
Union She was for time pastor of a church
on Cape Cod.
THE POPULAR FAD in Washington nowadays is
the study of the language and literature of
Spain. which was given great impetus by the
sessions OF the pan-American congress.
A B. ABERNETHY, professor of modern Ian
guages in Rutherforth college, North Carolina,
is only IS years old. He is probably the young
est teacher IN the country TO bear the title OF
professor.
LAFcoDIo HEARN, the Louisiana author, is
described as a small man of dark complexion
and insignificant appearance. He was born in
treece and his father was a surgeon in the
English navy.
WILLIAM l.. ALDEN, the late consul general
OF the United States for Italy, has received
from the King of Italy the cross of Cavaliere
della Corona dItalia, in rec ignition of his kind
ness TO ltal ans.
The NEW DUKE OF AosTA is a tall, handsome
young man with fortune of Sc 100000 In the
event of the death of the crown prince. who is
IN poor health, the duke would become the heir
to the Italian throne.
The INVENTOR. Kinkel. who has designed a
tower that will surpass the Eiffel structure and
will be erected in London, is a German. He has
been In this country for thirty years, and is a
resident of Washington.
FRANCES E. WILLARD. in her walks about Chi
cago has discovered women who make shirts
for rs cents dozen and furnish their own
thread She also finds children working twelve
f. GuTEKUNsT has just issued two exquisite
imperial photographs-one of the veteran poet,
Walt Whitman and the other of the veteran
democratic war horse. Richard Vaux They
are both as perfect as art could make them.
ROBERT BARRETT BROWNING intends to pre-
sent to Ballot college, Oxford, England. most of
the manuscripts of his fathers poems. The
late poet had said to professor Jowett that after
his death he wished Ballot to possess his manu-
scripts.
VoLAPUK has received a very severe blow. An
English society of scientists has decided that
the German professors universal language is
wanting in many particulars and that the Ian
guage most suit Gble for general use is media-
val Latin, adapted to modern needs"
HENRY B. STONE, who recently resigned the
position of vice president of the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroad, is less than thirty
railway service, and in the time since then he
has climbed from the very bottom to nearly the
top round of the ladder.
TIE EMPEROR NAPOLEON very rarely wrote
letter by his own hand, and those few which do
exist are mostly written in Italian He usually
dictated to secretary at such rapid rate that
the amanueusis had to fl | I'D gaps from
memory, and it is funny fact that most of his
love letters to Josephine were thus dictated.
LOUISE MICHEL, the French socialist. has
fiaring-red face, an egg-snaped forehead, and
Struggling ringlets of hair falling loosely on
black. and escnews anything in the shape of
flowers or jewelry. She is an emotional-man-
nered woman of iron WILL aud is known as
stormy Petfel OF French politics.