The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-14
PERSONAL

sESAToE-ELEcT FELTON, Of California is book
worm.
The CROWN Princess or DENMARK is six feet
/ ten inches tall
DUKE NICHOLAS Of Leuchtenberg. who died re
Gently, wss victim Of the cigarette habit.
Rev. R. L. KIDD, a Canadian evangelist, boasts
that he can recite the entire Bible from. mem
ory.
COMEDIAN DIeBY BELL is the son Of Canon Bell
OF Cheltenham. England, light Of the English
| church.
VERDI has finished q comic opera entitled
'Fallstaff," which Is to be brought out at Milan
next winter.
SENATOR PALMER of Illinois is a man of only
moderate fortune, his estate being estimated to
be worth 100000.
PRoF. D. S. JORDAN, the newly appointed
president OF the Leland Stanford university Of
California, will receive a yearly salary of
| $4,000.
The ONLY PERSONS whom Baron Fava con-
sented to talk with in New York are Consul
General Riva and his old personal friend Gen.
d. Cesnola.
LIEUT.. PEARY of the navy will lecture next
Monday evening before the American Geo
graphical Society of New York on his proposed
explorations in north Greenland.
MISS JULIA MARLoWE is said TO have the most
wonderful faculty of memorzing Of any vo-
man on the stage, and she finds that this faculty
mas been intensified by her recent illness.
The dawn Of returning reason grows brighter
and brighter with passing time in the mind of
the ex- Empress Carlotta. She is now able TO
take some part Ia the management OF her home
near Lacken.
ZoLA requires nine months to write a novel.
He handles pen as laborer might spade,
and is a slow and painful toiler. The express
SION on his face when he is doing literary work
Is one of torment
ISAAC R. GREENE is still in the active practice
OF the law at Louisville, KY. He served in the
Black Hawk war, and was admitted to the bar
IN 1S43. Five thousand dollars is the largest
fee he ever handled.
j. W. MIDGELEY, the Chicago railroad man,
who is reported to receive salary of $4,000 a
year, was newspaper desk editor not many
years ago. Failing eyesight compelled him to
abandon his profession.
FRANK R STOCKTON and ex-senator Ingalls,
recently exchanged condolences about their
daily hours of work. The novelist said he toiled
Tor two hours day, and Mr.. Ingalls, declared
he worked eighteen hours.
SANAToR HAwLEY, of Connecticut, has con-
sented to deliver an address on the life and
ice to be held under the municipal auspices
OF Boston on date not yet fixed.
c. B, LEWIS, the humorist, whose Lime Kiln,
Arizona Kicker and other sketches have given
the Detroit Free Press for twenty years past
peculiar reputation, has accepted position on
the STAFF OF the New York World
DAVID A. WELLS the eminent free trader of
Norwich, Conn, has received a gold medal from
the jury on social and economic matters of the
% L.
contributions to economic science and litera-
ture.
Rev. RICHARD GIIaoUR. bishop of Cleveland,
who has been at the point of death in Florida,
was raised strict Scotch Presbyterian and was
converted TO the Catholic faith by a priest TO
whose church he went in youth to play the
organ.
PRINCE DoLGoRoUKI the perennial admirer of
Mrs. J. G.. Aver and her millions, is now at
Monte Carlo, dividing his time between the
widow and the board of green cloth. upon
which, it is said. the croupers are raking in big
piles of his napoeons.
DR.. DANIEL G. BRINToN, professor of ethnology
at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences, has recently been elected an asso-
| ciated member OF the Russian Society of An
thropology. This distinction has rarely been
conferred on Americans.
Mrs. EDWARD g. BUCHANAN, who died in Phil
| adelphia Wednesday, was not only a sister in
| law of President Buchanan, but a sister of
stephen c. Foster, the famous song writer; and
| one of her daughters married A. j. Cassatt OF
| the Pennsylvania railroad.
PROF. HAIsEY c. IVES. who is likely to be
made manager Of the art department of the
| worlds fair, is resident of St. Louis and is
connected with the School of Fine Arts Of
Washington University. He is 43 years old.
SINCE the President has been importuned to
appoint colored man to one OF the new judge
ships the following names have been suggested
j. NJ Langston, the congressman; d. McCann
kStewart of New York, who has large practice;
| d. A. Straker, leading attorney of Detroit, and
| d. Nj. Hart, a graduate of Harvard and private
| secretary to w. E. Evarts.