The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-05
PERSON AL.

President CARSoT is said to be the most
tastefully dressed public man in France.
J. Van BEERS has Just refused the third-class
medal awarded 10 him by the jury of the Paris
Salon on the ground that it was inconsistent
with his reputation.
Ex President CLEVELAND, r. ". Glider and
wife and Jo5epl Jefferson and wife have rived
NJ Msshpse, Mass. where thew will remain
thro IGN the present week.
JOIN PRICE BUCHANAN, democratic candidate
for governor Of Tennessee. is 43 years old and a
cousin Of President Buchanan. He entered the
confederate army when 16 years old.
CHANCELLOR voN CAPRIvI is cited as author
ity for the statement that American hogs will
IL IS pretty hard 70 keep them ont anywhere.
PAvL DzRouLEDE. the poet in the late Bou-
langss movement. publishes his first novel,
taken straight from the fountain head Of French
inspiration. He calls it H STORE dAmour
THERE will be at Lawrenceburg. Tenn, on
Aug 10. grand birthday celebration in honor
of Davy Crockett and a great impetus will be
given thereby TO the movement for monument
to Davy.
W. 5. WILLIAMS of Cherokee county, Ala
oama is the father of twenty-eight children,
the eldest of whom is AZ years old and the
youngest 6. Mr. Williams is in his 10Th year,
~AN 20 SSiAl anu vigorous.
THE LATE DR.. PETERS, the astronomer, was
most unassumIng He never would say II have
discovered" 50 and so, but so and so has been
discovered at Ltchfeld observatory" He was
also a great lover of flowers and trees.
Mrs. Ira L. LIKES of Hayes City, Neb., has
the reputation of being one of the smartest
lawyers in the state. She is only 20 years old,
but has been an enthusiastic Law studeat ever
since she was II, and likes the business.
LEE c. HARDY, author of TEXAN Types and
Contrasts, D." of which paper the Harpers made
a feature in their July magazine. is q native of
South Carolina He lived in Texas for twenty
years, but is now permanent resident of New
York.
A MAN who was carting away ashes the other
day from Mrs. Wnitneys residence at Newport
found in the rubbish an envelope containing a
check for 6,S75, payable to Mrs. Whitney lie
promptly returned it and was handsomely re-
warded.
Mr. GLADSTONE, though attending parliament
pretty regularly. dining out every night, and
getting through a mass of new literary work,
found time the other day to deliver a half hour
address to the girl graduates of one of the Lon
don private schools.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES is not to arrive in
Newport (R II for month yet, but there are
already arranged enough dinners and luncheons
to enable him to stay the European plan
during his visit, and Newport has ceased to care
which resort secures the sea serpent this season.
DR.. JOHN MACINTOSH, author of the His
tory of Scotland, which Mr.. Fisher Unwin is
about to publish, is a sec md hand bookseller at
Aberdeen. He is a regular dry-as-dust, and
pores oyer the books. HIS customers used to
wonder what he was always doing. AS it turned
out, he was writing his excellent History of
Civilization in Scotland, for which the univer-
sty of his native town conferred on him the de-
gree of LID.
WILLIAM T. DoREMUs Long Island genius.
has invented bed-quilt which is described as
having tubular parallel weighing pockets, in
combination with Substantially continuous teXi-
Bile masses or filings of weighing material ap-
piled to the pockets, thereby better protecting
the occupant and making the covers less liable
to displacement. This is evidently great in
vention, bot it strikes US that that this sultry
summer time is not good season to push it.