The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-22
PERSONAL

EE-PEEsIDEsr CLEVELAND has remarkable
memory for faces
WILLIAM WALDORF Aston, the head OF his
family. is the greatest real estate owner in the
world.
AMELIA GLOVER sailed for Europe last week.
She has been re-engaged for the 'City Direc-
tory" play.
The VENERABLE BISHOP CRowTHER, one of the
best known missionaries in Africa, was born a
| savage IN Guinea.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON and his family have al
ready gone to their summer home at Buzzard's
Bay on the Massachusetts, coast.
YoUNe EDWIN GOULD, the son of his father, is
to be made the executive head of the Manhat-
tan elevated railway system OF New YORK.
Tue WIFE of Mr. Batcheler, United States
Minister to Portugal, was seriously injured in a
carriage accident in Lisbon Wednesday, and is
In critical condition.
EDWARD GRIEG, the Norwegian composer, is
now occupied with the composition of what is
termed an "Oratorio Of Peace, the words being
supplied by Bjornsterne Bjornson.
GEN. A. W. GREELEY is in Spokane Falls,
Wash. experimenting the laying of the new
cable across the Strait of San Juan de Fuca to
the Island OF TaltooSh for signaling vessels.
Mrs. MCKEE and Mrs. Russell Harrison in
tend to sail for Europe about June 1. Mrs.
Harrison left the presidential party at Omaha,
where she will remain until nearly time to sail.
THEODORE Triton lives in comparative quiet
and obscurity in Paris, and gains moderate
income by literary work. He is said to have
given up all desire for returning 70 this country
| to live.
The ONLY WOMAN on record who was the wife
of a governor. the sister of governor, the
niece of a governor and the aunt and foster
mother OF governor was a southern woman.
| Her name was Mrs. Richard Manning and she
came from South Carolina
GEN. MILES. ON making his recent visit to
Mexico was met at the Rio Grande by Mexican
| officers. aud escorted to the capital and back
again on his return. In the City of Mexico he
was entertained In royal style by President Diaz,
and fine review of troops was had in his honor.
Ex-Gov. PAUL DILLINGHAM;, who appointed
Mr.. Edmunds to the United States Senate a
quarter of century ago, is still alive, and lives
a. his nome IN Waterbury, Vt. When Senator
Edmunds resi- ned recently, he paid his friend
graceful compliment by sending him copy of
his formal resignation
Mr.. GLADSTONE has lost one of his Oldest
friends by the death of Canon Woodward Of
Manchester, who was known throughout Eng
| land as one of the most indefatigable workers
in the cause of church education. He was so
years of age, and has been on terms of intimacy
with Mr.. Gladstone for sixty years.
EMIS PAsHA has tender regard for Zanzibar,
and wishes to pass his last days there. notwith-
standing that is where he fell out OF the win
! dow. He has written to Berlin that his present
mission to Central Africa will be his last, and
asks that a cottage be built for him at Bago-
| moyo, which is on the shores of the Indian
ocean, opposite the island of Zanzibar. There
be wishes to spend the remainder of his days.
THE late Prof Joseph Leidy of Philadelphia
and his brother Philip bequeathed their brains
| to the Anthropometric Society, of which the
! professor was founder and the first president,
and which numbers among its members Phillips
| Brooks, DR.. William Pepper and eminent anato-
! mists and craniologists all over The country.
The brains of the two brothers were of the same
| weight to a fraction of a grain. Both were
noticeably below the normal size, confirming
the deduction of anatomists that quality of
tissues rather than quantity distinguished the
| valuable brain from the ignorant.