The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16
PERSONAL.

BRONSON HOWARD, writing from Europe to a
friend in this country. and speaking not Of
poker, but Of politics expresses the opinion
that the Gay OF kings and qusens has passed
JOIN RUsKN is getting rounded at the shout
ders. and his struggling beard is winter than it
was, but his eyes have not yet lost their luster
ana ms friends say, He doesn't look half as
Old as ne Is" which /, AZ.
DR.. HOLMES read number Of his poems to
the students OF the Boston University few
days ago. the selections including The Last
Leaf Dorothy Q - tThe VoicelesS'' and
The Chambered Nautilus
Ex-MISIsTER McLAsE is a thin built, middle
sized, courteous-Inann- red man. has been a
prominent figure ia public life for close On half
century. He first entered congress in lo47,
having previously fought c the Florida war.
The DEVELOPMENT of the beet sugar indus
try IN France has made wonderful strides
within the past three years. and the yield
lor TINS year promises to exceed the cane pro-
duct OF the world by more than 100000 tons.
Rev. J. NJ. DEITzLER of AnnviIle, Pa, pulled
from his pocket $40 bill recently and threw
1t in the fire, under the impression that it was
a slip OF paper containing tle numbers of the
hymns he bad that day announced from the
pulpit.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON is tall and slim and
bic competence out of woo and is of a decid-
edIy literary turn of mind. He has weak
voice, which mars the effect Of his pubic
speeches
HERE is one more of the late Frank Saltuss
stories about the elder Dumas: 'Being asked
what kind OF a time he ha at a reception the
night before, he replied very seriously: Il
would have had a very dull time If hadn't been
there myself"
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which had q school house. got up the other
morning to fad it gone, and an adjacent dis
trict, which had none, now has one which bears
strong reseE blance to the one. the first men
TONED district used to have.
The home and Office furniture owned by
Abraham Lincoln has been purchases by firm
in Chicago, and is now ON exhibition there
The only Office desk he ever owned is there.
1t is plain table, surmouuted by an old-fash-
Toned bookcase, with the first law books Lin
coin read.
The ExrENsIoSo of a patent is being pushed in
congress on the plea that the inventor is poor
and blind. A correspondent finds that this is
actually the case, and he further asserts that
the poor blind man gets 8 psr cent. on the net
proceeds, while syndicate divides the rest be-
tween its members.
THE United States minister to England,
Robert Lincoln, possesses il is said, the largest
ulOSL varied assortment spas kOVergdlt-
ers) in London. The collection Is said TO com
prise four dozen pair, most of them being OF a
soft brown shade, that being the color affected
by the Prince Of Wales.
GEN SHERMAN is disguised with the futile
efforts of New York to raise enough money for
the GRANT monument He says: That won't
happen to me; I've bought my own monument
ani paid $1,000 for it. The minute / am buried
1t will be clappGd on over me and that will end
the matter l won't have any - nonsense
with my monument"
THE Piccadilly swells appear to have agreed
upon new way of carrying their canes. Here
tofore it has been the fashion to wear the stick
directly in front of and parallel with the body,
the head of the stick being upward and point
ing forward. But the latest style is to carry
the stick ferrue end upward. the head turned
toward the BODY, and the stick held stiffy at an
angle of, say, 450.
CHARLES SUMNER, while in London in 1887
became quite intimate with Lord Brougham,
and when they par Ell the latter gave to Mr.
Sumner the wig he had worn while pre- iding in
the House of Peers. When Mr. Sumner came back
to America he gave the wig to the Harvard law
school and at the same time he asked Judge
Story to put 1t in a case TO preserve it. For
some unaccountable reason this care was not
taken of it; In fact it was allowed to lie around
the old law school and was occasionally US d in
private theatrlcals. When workmen were fill
ing in a new athletic ground heap OF rubbish
was taken from the cellar OF the law school and
buried in Holmes Field. There is little doubt
that Lord brougham s wig was thrown in with
this mass of debris, and that now this-among
the last remembrances of one of England's
greatest statesmen lies within a feT feet of the
spot where the college boys stand and cheer tue
athletes Of fair Harvard on to victory.