The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-05
PERSONAL.

SENATOR WoLcoTr Is q handsome man with
blonde hair parted in the middle and silky
mustache.
SENATOR SQUIRE OF Washington is rich enough
TO spend $3.50 day. and sensible enough 20 be
content with 81 dinner.
MRS. PHILIP d. ARxous, the wife Of the Chi
cago millionaire, is a notable housekeeper, and
prides herself upon her culinary successes.
ROBERT GARRETT appeared the picture Of
health at the large reception given by himself
and his wife last Wednesday in Baltimore.
Col J. q. MAPLEsoS viii be Henry Z. Abbey's
right-haud man during the opera season next
year. At present he Is musical agent in Lon
don.
MARION CRAwFoRD is so worn out by brain
work that he has been compelled to seek
health at the hot baths Of Tihis. in Asiatic
Russia.
MRS. ScHLIEMASN. In addition to her other ac-
complshments. has talent for tapestry that
would have made her fit companion for
ALFRED Russell WALLACE, the distinguished
English naturalist, writes TO Prof. Ely Of John
Hopkins university. that he has become con-
vert to Bellamyism.
PREsIDESrz EEaeRyyof, Harvard university
started on Saturday for q six-Eeeks' western
trip during <shict hs VIII yssis his son. Rev.
Samuel A Eliot Of Denver.
Mrs. EMILY ToDD HELM. aunt Of Robert Lin
coin, and widow of confederate general has
been reappointed for her third term as post
master at Elizabethtown, Ky.
A. L. TrLDEn of Erie, Pa, who was beaten
for congress last fall by Matthew Griswold, will
this week become deputy secretary of the com
monwealth under Gov. Pattison.
GEORGE MEREpIrH's daughter is said TO copy
all her fathers manuscript for the printer. The
novelist does his writing in the morning in a
study cottage built in his garden.
ALBERT Fl. LADNER. the democratic candidate
for mayor of Philadelphia, is a German by birth
and 45 years of age. He is war veteran
and since 1880 has been one of the city
magistrates.
W. CLARKE RUSSELL, whose sea stories have
such remarkable dash, breeziness and out-of-
door freedom, has long been hopeless and
well-nigh helpless invalid, chained to an indoor
existence in an inland town.
UNTIL quite recently the old Essex Head tav-
ern on the Strand, London, which was one Of
DR.. Johnson's favorite resorts. has been kept by
two Misses Fieldings, who we're defendants of
the author Of ~Tom Jones" Now, however,
the old building is to be pulled down.
JUDGE W. L. LOOMS of Sheffield, Conn. is
indulging in an ancient sleigh which he asserts
belonged to his greatgrandfather. and is be-
tween ninety and one hundred years OLD. He
alto has for music during his rides the sleigh
bells owned by his grandfather. who died in
1912
Mas. JULIA WARD HOWE, who is still beau
tiful woman, with finely modelled features,
trained voice and gracious manners, adds to her
reputation as poet and prose writer philan
thropist and grande dame of society, the
unique honor of having been president of the
ROgfAn WnDnoE9e h fOr anfv nv a
unanimous choice of the members.
THE HOME of Miss Olive Schreiner, whose
''Story of an African Farm made her famous,
is in a beautiful suburb of Cape Town. 1t is an
oasis in q veritable South African desert, but
skill and thrift have made the few hundred
acres that comprise the towns site blossom like
the rose. Outside there are fiat and desolate
wastes Of never-endinR sand.