The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-26
PERSONAL.

A TENSEssEE HAN came to Rev. Sam Jones
and said he would ike 70 De saved Sam looked
him over a moment and then exclaimed
You re not worth IL p"
OLIVER DEACON is very much wanted at Hunt
ington. W. Va. He engaged himself to eighteen
girls, fixed the wedding day for April 20 in
every case, and then skipped for Kentucky.
CHARLES TAPPEN. who built the famous New
York Tombs prison, is still living in that city.
at the age OF 95. He has seen the metropolis
grow from a town Of less than 10000 inhabi-
| tsnts. ~
VLADIMIR KoRoLENkO, the talented Russian
writer, is now prisoner in the gloomy fortress
of st. Peter and St Paul. His arrest is due to
a, series Of articles entitled In Deserted
Places"
Col" GEORGE w WILLIAMS, the colored
man who has notified King Leopold that Mr..
Stanley is not the man to govern the KonKo
FTee state, was at one time member OF the
Ohio legislature.
Mrs. FREDERICK VANDRBILT is tall and
slender, with pretty blonde hair, and she is said
by her friends to have heart of gold. The
greater part of her life is spent in doing good,
which she does so quietly and unoStentatiOuSly
that the outside world knows little about it.
EX-SENATOR EvARTs HAT is always worn on
the back of his head as if it wanted to hide from
observation the fact of its being old enough to
ldNG uedTu the 0TSL gun at sumter 0r6Q. MT.
Evarts ages fast and has decided stoop, indi-
eating increasing weakness and lack of vitality.
MARIA e. SWAMI, widow of the founder of
the Philadelphia Fountain Society, directed in
her viii that the executors Of her estate should
invest $1,000 land pay the income thereof to
Margaret Hall for the care and maintenance of
my dear little dog Dot, intrusting her TO her
CARE
TIE present governor general of Canada is
fond Of
Canada he used to shock the people of Ottawa
by playing the game on Sunday with the male
members of his family and their friends. IL re-
CURED an especial royal mandate from the
queen TO induce him to stop the Sunday games.
GEN. Buffers LUNCHEON, which he eats at Q
O'Clock p m, does not vary from day to day.
1t comprises one small ham sandwich, one
small chicken sandwich, and few swallows OF
brandy and water. He takes it with him from
Lowell to Boston every morning aud does not
cat anything else between breakfast and dinner.
BISHOP VLADMER of the Greek Church in
Alaska, who is on a tour Of inspection OF the
Russian churc les in the United States. is an en-
thusiastic admirer and eloquent defender of the
Gar S rule He ridicules the charges OF Zero
clouS tyranny in Muscovite administration, and
attributes them quite as much to newspaper
sensationalism as to rebellious dissatisfaction.
A WEDDING in high life took place at Port
Townsend, B. c., recently, when the Prince of
Wales, eldest son of the late Duke of York,
head chief of the Clalam tribe, and Princess
Bessie jackson of the royal house of Clallam
were united in holy matrimony. Queen Vic
toria, the groom's mother, was expected to
grace the festivities but she was so busy dig
ging clans that she sent her regrets.
Mrs. MARIA HANSON of Baltimore, who is a
cousin Of Charles Stewart Parnell, says that
Mr. Parnel's mother has a curious idiosyncrasy
IN regard to horse she owns. She will not use
the animal herself or permit anV one else TO use
him. He has not been harnesSed for years. but
stands in the stable and eats the year round, $"
which is rather strange diet for a horse. He
has grown so vicious through neglect of hand
ling that he has to be fed through a hole in the
wall. Water is passed in TO him once day on
a long pole