The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-25
PERSONAL


one Of the largest stock farms in the world is
the great Percheron horse farm Of Mark W.
Durham, near Aurora H. Mr. Durham started
By importing twenty horses IN 1873 Since that
time his animal impOrtations have reached 800,
and ne has become a millionaire several times
over.
TIE CAR OF Russia is in such state of ap-
prehenson that be now only eats food which
has been prepared in kitchen that a6joins his
library. Every conceivable precaltion is taken
70 protect the emperor against poison, and he
mas ceased to eat eggs since somebody dlscov-
cred that they can be poisoned by the insertion
OF needle. which does not percepdbly break
toe shell
TIE British government has never granted
amnesty to John Boyle O'Reily. his escape
from convict's doom in Western Australia
having apparently placed him outside the pale
OF forgiveness Meanwhile Dir. OReily, who
IS 10 years old, pursues the even tenor Of his
way. displaying in his poems and lectures
sympathy for humanity which prejudice of
party, race or creed cannot marrow.
Mas. GENERAL GRANT says she first met the
general in 1344. and they were married in 1913.
She has many of the letters written by him
during the days If their courtship, and while
she re ards these in their entirety as too sacred
for the public eye. she will make extracts from
them for her book of "reminiscences of her
famous husband. She is working very slowly
Oh the bOoS, and does not expect to have il
ready for publication before next spring.
TIE MANTLE of Sir L. Simmons as negotlator
at the vatican is supposei to have descended on
the shoulders OF SIR Adrian Dingli, who, as
crown advocate of Malta, was for many years
OF great Influence. Sir Adrian is a strong Cath
ohc and although the ostenslble object of his
visit TO Rome is to see his only son, who is a
pupil IN the jesuit School of dondragoly. it is
an open secret tnat he is charged semi-officlally
TO discuss several matters Of great Importance
with Leo AlII. and bis advisers.
Mas. JEFFERSON DAVIS in a letter to a friend
in New York thus writes: Il am not surprised
that you believe that our daughter Varina
tWinnie) Is our only surviving child, as almost
IN every notice of her il is stated that she is
the only daughter Of the late jefferson Davis.
But 1t IS a cause of constantly recurring thank
fulness to me that if We were to be deprived of
all our sons by death two daughters -urvlve.
Margaret, the elder, is the wife of j A. Hayes,
a Missssippian by birth, a BANKER in
Colorado Springs. She m st tenderly
beloved by her father, and 1t was one of the
sorrows of his later years that Mr.. Hayes
health required her residence to be so far re-
moved from ours"
DR.. JAMES McGREGoR. Queen Victoria's
Scotch chaplain, is a brilliant preacher, and he
is also man of very small stature and slightly
deformed, a defect which has gained for him
the title in Edinburgh Of "Bowdyn McGrego-.
once when a ministerof a rural parish he called
at farmhouse, aud as the members of his con
gregatlon whom ne wanted to were not at
nome, he Good-naturediy consented to be taken
around the premises by the far uer's boy. After
he had seen the minor sights about the place. he
was taken to the pigsty TO see the pigs, where
a curlously shaped animal was trumphanty
pointed out TO him as "BOwdy McGregur, cad
after cor minister We ken. - The story is told
by the worthy old doctor minister himself.