The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-22
PERSONAL

". CABAsEL. the French portrait painter. says
that Miss Maggie Mitchell the daughter of the
Oregon senator, Is the most beautiful woman
/ ever seen in Paris
SENATOR BARBOUR OF Virginia is trying TO re-
tire from active politics. Now that his ancient
! foe Malone. is ont Of the way the game has
/ lost is interest for him
! Cot PATRICK DoSAS Of the Fargo Ar0us says
that had it not been for the confederates. Of
whom he was one. the world would never have
known what heroes the north had.
Russell SAGE has shaved of his WHISPERS.
and Is spending the summer at Lawrence. L. /
He wears a broad brimned, Old fashioned hat.
AM looiS very much like Connecticut farmer.
WHrTrIER is quoted as saying the other day
that there were times when it seemed 70 him
that he must take up his pen and write, but
that be felt that he had done enough and that
bis work was really completed.
The only man in the Muscovite empire whose
influence on the car counterbalances and some.
times overr,des tina. of the stern procu!ator of
the hoy synod. ". Pobiedoutsof, is a Roman
Cathol, able, a mere village priest named
Zudmowski.
SUPT. MURRAY of the New York police force is
very badly broken physically. He is suffering
from shaking palsy. and has become a shadow
OF bis former robust physique. There is little
probability OF his ever again occupying his
chair at police headquarters.
Col. JOHN HAY. one Of the joint authors of
the famous Lincoln biography, has a trim
figure, closely cropped gray whiskers and
mustache and an elegant way of handling his
glasses which bespeaks the man of leisure Col
Hay married large fortune
The KING OF BELGIUM has not succeeded in
making his Congo investments pay very we'll,
so badly, indeed, that they have we'll nigh
swallowed up his own fortune. if not also the
vast property That be holds in trust for his sis
ter, the ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico.
STASLEY's CONTRACT with the American pub
fishers of his book called for $50, OOJ in royalty
1t is now authoritatively stated that he has re-
celyed from them the additional sum Of $4,000
and that Maj Pond paid to him about $40, coo as
his portion of the proceeds of the lecture
tour
REFLECTIONS. Thoughts aud Maxims" is the
title of the book Gen. Boulanger proposes to in
flict upon the world His maxims and thoughts
are perhaps not worth penny, but if he has
the good Judgment TO properly review his own
career his reflections may possess a certain
somber value.
PUvIs DE CHAYANNEs, who succeeded Neis-
sonier as president of the National Society of
French Artists, is a great painter of frescoes
and has decorated the walls of many public
bu ldlngs IN Paris and the provinces. He is well
az III jail, intellectual ana an ele
CANT gentleman. 1t is hardly necessary TO say
that he does not share his predecessors IN
reasonable hatred for Americans
WILLIAM LIDDERDALE, who is known as the
hero of the Barring crisis in that his financial
craftsmanship not only saved the great firm Of
Barring Bros. from collapse. but also prevented
the shock to the business world that must have
resulted had the house gone down, is a Scotch
man by birth and SO years old For his assist.
ance In the Barring affair he has received the
freedom of the city OF London in a gold casket
which IS eight inches long, six inches high and
four wide.
ANDREW LANG is some years older than the
majority of his readers suppose him to be. He
has reached AZ, and his hair is turning gray and
growing scant. He is tall. thin and dark, and
has an unpleasant laugh. He talks slowly and
with an effort, his conversation frequently fall
ing into what they Ii in England the Oxford
drawl. Lang is said to be working at a ire
mendous pace. He earns a large income but
there is little of it left for the bank after his
heavy household expenses have been paid
Some of his American admirers are inclined to
think that he writes too much, for there are
evidences of dilution in his later prose pro
ductions