The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13
PERSONAL.


PROF. TUCKER of Andover is said to limit the
original thinkers of America to three-Jona-
than Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and Nathan
iel Hawthorne
President HTPPoLYTE of the republic of Hayti
is said TO be 40 years of age but with the ap-
pearance of man of 60. If this be true, he is
one of the livelest octogenarians on record.
STEPNIAE the Nihilist author, who is coming
70 TINS country next y ar, is described as a
back-haired, bristly- bearded, vieorous looking
otooter, with gentle manners and kindly ways.
MISS MARY ANGELA DICKENS. granddaughter
of the novelist, is the latest member of the
family TO join the ranks of writer's She wrote
a Christmas story this year entitled "a Social
Success"
Edmund c. STEDMAN, the poet, saws that the
grippe is a result of vapors through which our
planet is passing on its way around its orbit
He contends that the greater the elevation the
worse the grippe,
SENATOR EvARrs. is noted for being a court
eous ge tleman. Even in the hustle of a big
city crowd he never fails to lift his hat and bow
if, by any chance, he runs into any one of tbe
fair pedestrians who throng the thoroughfares
THE DUKE or PORTLAND heads the list of
winners on the English turf the past season
He won S339.OOQ this year and 1000 last year
making the snug sum of over half a million for
the two seasons and from horses of his own
breeding, too.
NELLIE AND HATTIE Cook, aged II and Is
years respectively, daughters of Lyman Cook
of Smith county, Kansas husked 1000 bushels
of corn for their father this fall, for which he
paid 81 having agreed TO pay them 21b cents
bushel for all they would husk.
BEVERLY TUCKER. who came near to being q
commissioner to Hayti is becoming noted in
Washington because he refuses to wear an
overcoat. Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some play the Victor
Hugo, Hannibal Hamlin dodge.
c,
only herd of ouffaloes now in existence. There
are fifteen animals in the herd, and they are
corralled on farm about four miles from
Yankton, at the end of a railroad butt by him
and used by the public for excursions.
JOSEPH H. CRAIG of Kentucky weighs COO
pounds and is tall in proportion. He is an Odd
Fellow and carries gold medal given him bv
his associates in commemoration of the fact
that he was probably the heaviest Fellow who
had ever succeeded in going through the third
degree.
SENATOR TuRPrE of Indiana is said to he q
perfect master of no less than seven languages
beside the English He reads Latin, Greek and
Hebrew almost as fiuentlY as he does English
and can speak French, Spanish, German and
Italian. He has also pursued studies in Indian
Celtic and other tongues.
JAY GOULD and his son George were on Fifth
avenue New York, the other afternoon. Law
suddenly stood stock-still at the corner of one
of the streets and turned up his face to George
smack went KISS from george plump upon
his fathers mouth. That was their farewell
saluIation for the afternoon.
THE DUCHESS OF FIFE and her husband ara
often seen about London unattended They
generally sit in the stalls when at the theater
few days ago they declined Barnum's offer of
the royal box at the circus, preferrng the shil-
ling seats, which they took The Prince of
Wales enjoys being in the company of his SON
in-law, and appears satisfied with him.