The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-24
PERSONAL

EDWIN BOOTH has good 20 Stockbridge, Mass,
and after a short stay in Boston, will 20 to
Newport for the summer.
MINISTER PORTER, who has left Rome on a
vacation, viii spend most of his leave in Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland. ~
Ex-Gov. GILPIS Of Colorado and his wife,
after fighting the divorce question in the courts
for years, have finally come to terms and will
| live together. 1TG
NJ EIFFEL, the civil engineer of Paris tower
celebrity, lives up on the Jungfrau in the Swiss
| Alps and is about to build a railroad I'D the
mountain to his house.
PENNINGTON, the air-ship man, proposes to
make his aerial trip from St Louis to Burlng-
ton, Ia, on the morning of the Fourth of July,
and thence to points east.
Bfsf4oF J. w HoLr. of the United Brethren
church, whose home is in Sacramento, is in the
east looking up young men for mission work on
the Pacific coast, He has been moderately sue
| cessfui in bis search. go
| scEDULE iu the population division of the
census office develops that quadroon, years
old. living in Northern Florida, bears the fol-
lowing name: Beautiful Lula Flyer Ida Lettie
| Sigma Writer ADELAIDE Cadonia Allen"
MISS NJ. G. McCLELLAND, the Virginia novel
list. is of middle age, tall and SLENDER with iron
gray hair that she wears parted over her fore
head. She is a genuine southern woman, cor
dial and kindly OF manner, and q rapid and pro-
life writer
MARY Howe sang at a New York woman's
private reception recently. She was applauded,
of course, and person present remarked
pleasantly to the hostess: ''She sings like
canary" Yes" replied the woman "but her
bill is a Thousand times larger"
SURROGATE RANSOM at New York has decided
that the Duchess of Marlboro is an American
an in au
the estate of her late husband, L. G. Hamersiy
Besides her life inter est in the estate she is also
entitled TO large commission as a trustee, by
the decision of the surrogate
WOMEN of the brush have come out well in
this years Royal Academy, and found favor
with the gods of the hanging committee. Mrs.
ADRIAN stokes "Annunciation" hangs above Sir
Frederick Leighton's 10 an important place, and
Mrs Normand's ia Cigale" hangs on the line
below the work of her own husband.
THE late Prentice Milford, the erratic Jour-
nalist few years ago built a hut in a New
Jersey swamp, where for four months he led
the life of hermit, mot wrote Milford
that was cynical or disgusted with the world,
but because there 10 the solitude of the woods
could better commune with my own thoughts"
WHEN John Brown went to conquer the south
with twentythree men he believed that the less
he trusted the arms of flesh the more Jehovah
might be depended on TO unsheath his sword
Inc only other sword Brown considered worthy
TO be used by the Almighty was that which
Washington was said to have received from
Frederick the Great
AN EAST INDIAN PRINCE has had q bed made
for him in Paris the mattress of which is
huge musical box. while the canopy is sup
ported by automatic figures which wave fans
and frighteu away the mosquitoes Its price is
$4,000 and it would have been cheaper for him
TO hire two boys to fan the insects away and to
lull the sleeper to a deeper repose by the whist
ling of Little Annie Rooney"
President CARNoT Of France receives $780,
600 as salary and as much more for house rent
and travelling expenses The next highest sala-
ries are those paid to the president of the
Chamber of Deputies the president OF the Sen
ate and the governor of Algeria, these three
officials receiving $40 900 a year each. The best
consulate is that Of New York, held at present
by Count d'Abzac, who receives 81, GOO a year.