The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-21
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NJ AMBROSE THOMAS. the veteran composer
Of Hamlet and "Mignon," is slowly recover
ing from a serious accident which nearly cost
him his life,
MRS. LUCINDA PARKINSON, a Castlemain, Aus
tralia, schooI-teacher, US ID TO kneel beside her
husband and ask the Lord to take him hence as
soon as possible.
REV Mr. MrRRIcK. chaplain of Millbank
prison, London. has taken down in shorthand
| the particulars of the lives of over 100000
women who have passed through that jail.
| Mr.. SwINBURNE, the poet, is summering with
his mother at BrockhamI ton Park. near Chel-
tenham, England. in a ancient mansion that
was originally built for Sir Walter Raleigh
sARDoU's first comedy was a failure. He WIS
youth of % when he made his first venture
| into a field in which he afterward became ia
nous, and was at that time a teacher OF mathe-
| mates.
MISS HARPER, at the last examination of the
College Of Surgeons, Ireland, was awarded the
first prizs for anatomy, scoring lsrse per
centage of marks over the male students VINO
competed with her.
MISS SUSAN NJ. DUNcKLEE of Newton, Mass,
| the only woman treasurer Of bank in that
state, has resigned after seventeen years Of
brilliant success, and not trip to Canada dur
ing the whole period.
Dt-PRzE the tenor, is reported to be well and
comfortable in Paris at the age of s.. He goes
to rehearsals at tho Grand opera and first
nights, and has something OF bis voice Left
which be uses at the montnly gathering of a
certain club.
DR.. LAURENT, student of criminals, has ex-
amined Boulangers skull, with the result of
pronouncing it similar III construction to the
skulls of Rava lac and several other assaSsins,
and that the moral sense is rudiInentary, fore
head very weak and selfshness enormous
HAMLIS GARLAND. whose wonderful portrayal
of western farm life in his "Main- travelled
Roads" has attracted such general attention.
contributes brilliant humorous western
character sketch in the September Arena. en-
titled An Evening at the Corner Grocery"
The WEARY MASS of MS. left by Victor Hugo
there were over 1900 pages of it--has been
edited and the last volume, ocean, is now
with the printers. These later volumes do not
seem to have aroused any enthusiasm anywhere
His correspondence, dating back to 1890, has
now 10 be edited.
HERMAN B. MAGRUDER of the San Antonio Err
press editorial staff. died on Aug. Z. He was
an able writer, versatile scholar and a good
lawyer. He was native OF Mississippi, and AZ
years of age. He leaves five brothers. one of
whom is a lawyer In Chicago, another on the
supreme bench of Illinois and another a pro-
fessor in the Louisiana State University.
THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY drinks only sweet
champagne. and his entertainers fell into we'll
meaning mistake when he visited Constantine
pie That visit was at the time when the en-
peror had changed his menu Into Speisekarie,
and dismissed all his French cooks. This mood
did not last long. In the following autumn his
visit to Co1stantinop'e was reported to have
been married by the sultan's mistaken hospital
ity in giving him nothing but German cham
pagnes to drink. 3&s
THERE is a funny row about Ibsen in Austria
liza. In June matinee was given to raise funds
for the women's college OF the university of
Sydney, an6the play selected was Ibsen's "Duk-
kebjem.n Various dignitaries acted as patrons,
but when the Countess of Jersey. the governors
lady, was applied to she refused, saying that
she had no Wish 10 see one of his plays, and
that it was impossible tBat9an actress VINO
could play in such piece could be lady
This was thought to be a gratuitous insult to
the leading LADY Letters have been written to
the London, newspapers reuhonstrat ng against
Lady Jersey 'sinarrowness.