The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-08
PERSONAL

Bill NTE, the well known statistician and
philosopher. has taken q house near Asheville.
n C., and will Remove thither in the spring.
PRoF. PHELPS Of Hartford win preside at the
dinner Of the Sons OF the Revolution in New
Haven, Feb. q. and ex-Secretary Bayard will
be one Of the speakers
WILLIAM srEISwAv Of New York, who sub
scrioed $4,000 TO the Chicago fair was dined at
the Union League Club of that city, Monday
afternoon By Otto Young.
Ar THE END of the ballroom in Mrs. w c.
Whitney's New York home there is a gem of q
stage, very small but beautifully proportioned,
supported by columns of Italian marble.
PRoF. THEODORE W. DWIGHT. for thirty two
years law professor Of Columbia College, New
York, has sent IN his resignation and been made
an emeritus professor at one-half pay for life
QUEEN VICTORIA is taking great interest In the
promotion OF large whisky distillery in Wales
she has had the plans and photographs sent to
heS, aud agreed TO take a cask Of the creature
Itself
NJ. C. KEITH is the leading man of affairs in
Costa Rica just now. He owns the railroad and
about half the banana plantations of the little
republic Mr. Keith is a goahead yankee from
Brooklyn.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON says hat he intends
TO ends his days In Samoa He has closed out
all his affairs 10 England and Scotland, and his
mother viii join himself and family in the new
south Sea Islands home shortly.
CoxTEssE DE MAILLY-NERLE one OF the pref
TEST Of Partisan women, is a blonde, with an
elegant figure and queenly carriage. Her
halr IS or liquid gold, her eyes are blue and she
IS an accomplished artist and musician
MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT and Florence Howe
Hall, daughters of Julia Ward Howe are meet
ing with gratifying success as readers and lee
tnrers. How to talk in public is an art the
Howe family seems to have thoroughly mas
tered.
ALICE, DAUGHTER Of the poet Longfellow, is a
fine photographer of tue amatuer class. Her
specially is storm pictures, and some of them
taken along the Massachusetts coast, will
soon appear as an illustration of q book of sea
songs.
GEN. BoorH expects to get his Darkest Eng
land" scheme launched by July He will then
take long trip, visiting South Africa, India.
Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand, and will be
absent nearly year. He starts for the CONT
nent this week.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is one of the few con-
gressonal orators who preserve the town
meeting attitudes" He is simple in his Ian.
guage, old-fashioned in his manners and there
are but few flights Of fancy or figures OF speech
In bis solid speeches.
VERA SAssULITscH, the nihiiist, has been SUD-
porting herself in Switzerland by translating
Her health is now failing, and her physician has
ordered her to stop and proceed to a warmer
climate. A subscription is being taken up In
this country to enable her to do so.
The OLDEST UNDERTAKEN in Paris has just died
at the age of 81. During the latter years Of his
life he was too feeble to attend funerals so
the Ponpes Funebres Company made him
manager of their chief coffin depot, where he
would SIT all day in large padded coffin which
served as an arm chair.
QUEEN VICTORIA, as she increases in years,
shows disposition to make youth and good
| looks requirement in the ladies in waiting and
other women about her. She prefers a comely
appearance ana fresh face to the wrinkles
that years impose, and for that reason insists
that the women officials of her royal household
shall be young.