The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-14
PERSONAL.

SENATOR PLUME was an editor before he went
into the railroad business and became mill
lionaire. He is tall and rawboned wears a
goates and siouch hat, and owns up to s.
| years.
ERNEST RESAs, the French philosopher. in
dulges In hobby of not riding in vehicles Of
! any kind, preferring TO walk. although his
health is feeble and stout cane is necessary to
support him.
HERR JOHANN ORTIZ, the former Austrian
archduke, has given the command Of a mer-
chant vessel recently purchased by him to a
Capt, Sodie. Herr Orth serves in a subordinate
position on the same ship
INTHE HISTORY of the Fellowcraft club OF wri-
tiers and artists of New York, only three distin-
guished guests have kept silence when toasted.
Ihese three are Thomas A. Edison Thomas C.
Plat and George w. Childs.
President ATHERroN Of the Pennsylvania
State College is inthe south under commission
from the United States Department of Agricul-
ture, maxim tour OF inspection Of the opera
tons of some of the experiment stations in that
section.
The QUEEN OF NAPLES has stables in the
Champs Eysees and at Chantilly. and runs
horses under an assumed name. The king, her
husband, is Of gentle disposition, and goes in
Tor dolce far niente." They don't exactly
board round" but live in ordinary hotel.
QUEEN VICTORIA Is careful of her diet at Aux
les-Bains. Her dinner consists of clear soup,
rare beef, chicken salad and claret. She is not
allowed to eat vegetables or drink champagne
OF beer. She takes tea and toast for breakfast
and a chop and stale bread for luncheon. Her
rheumatism is somewhat better.
LIEUT.. SEAToN SCHROEDER, who will command
the Vesuvius if she is accepted by the govern
ment. is prominent among the younger officers
OF the navy because of his scientific knowledge.
He has great faith ia the value of the dynamite
cruiser. Lieut.. Schroeder has made close
study OF the newest weapons of naval warfare
and is an expert in explosives.
Miss ELAINE GooDALE, the poet, who is super
intendent of Indian schools in Dakota, win live
principally in wagon next sumner She has
been supplied by Gen. Morgan commissioner of
indian affairs with covered wagon and a pair
OF horses TO travel from school to school through
Dakota. She will be attended on her travels by
two Indians, man and his wife.
e. P. THwING, an American physician now in
China, says the science of medicine is in crude
state in that country. Food is supposed by
native physicians to pass from the spleen to the
Stomach' the soul is in the liver and the pit of
the stomach is the source of breath. They as
sign twenty-four different pulses to the human
BODY. The Oldest nation on earth shows no signs
OF physical decay, Notwithstanding their almost
entire disregard of sanitary laws"
MIR. HowELLs is at work upon a juvenile Sc
rial to be called "a Boys Town" telling of a
boys dongs and dreamings in a little Ohio
town on the Great Miami where every dav
was full OF wonderful occurrences and thrilIiny
excitement to the boy who figures as the hero
IL is an open secret that the story is largely
photographed, so that we are TO know some
thing of the boy life of Howells to keep COM
pany with our knowledge of that phenomenally
bad boy, Tom Bailey