The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-08
PERSONAL


ENPERoz wnslAE IS an invete-ats smoker OF
light Dutch cigars, which eos, about three half
pence each.
LEos SoSxE1, The famous French painter. Is
at work upon portrait Of Ernest Rsnan, TO be
exhibited at the next salon.
MxE. TREBELIl retires from the operate stage
after thirty six years work With a Danish castle
and 90 annual income from Invested capital Of
TEE STORY that Mrs. Gen. Grant is aging
rapidly is denied By an Intimate friend On the
contrary IL Is auth oritat.ysy stated that for her
age she is remarkably well preserved.
ADvIcEs from Honolulu. By the Alameda,
state that Queen LIuokslaaI is in her usual
good health, and that she may be seen out
| riding any pleasant day and In her carriage or
| on horseback.
q. W. DUNN, the California naturalist. has
collected over 10000 insects belonging 20 the
horn-v:1gsd family. $500 OF tile cricket tribe
and about 1000 butterflies and numberiess rare
plants aud animals.
THs KHEDIvE OF EGYPF neither smokes nor
drinks, and, though allowed many wives has
! only one. He is very learned in Arabic lore,
| and Knows the Koran 80 thoroughly that he can
! recits It from memory.
LORD SALIssTRY. when he was plain Robert
Cecil, was a reporter, and was always ready,
after a night in the gallery to 60 with the boys
and invoke nightmare on q supper Of Welsh
rarebits and London stout.
The most eloquent pulpit orator In Canada is
Rev. DR.. George Douglass. He is blind and his
hands fall helpless ia front Of him from par
alyss, so that he appears half dead. But no
one Tat hears mis- voice can remain insensible
TO the charm Of his oratory.
EDouAED sA1NrIS, the famous old French ar
f5es I'LL
his pictures TO the Chicago exhibition as a re-
hinder Of the time when. nearly thirty years
ago he pitched his easel in New York and
painted portraits Of the leading Gothamites.
PHILIP ARxouR, the Chicago millionaire, spends
his afternoons playing bean-bag with the babies
in the day nursery he recently had started In
that city. He has kept the fact very quiet, but
he was caught in the act by friend the other
day. He got the idea while in Berlin last July,
and hac 1t carried out at once.
DANIEL DoUeHERTr. the silver-tongued. was
handsomely entertained by tho people OF
Omaha, who gave him a banquet and q recep-
ton. At the banquet the orator emphasized
the fact that he had never held an office, but
bore the distinguished honor in this day OF the
high title Of being private Citizen
Rev. FLORENCE KAL1oCK, who for thirteen
years had occupied the pulpiT of the Universal
list church at Englewood, near Chicago, and
who has just resigned her charge, is going
abroad TO study geology, chemistry and the
other natural sciences. which. she says, are of
vital Importance to modern preacher.
MISS MARGUERITE mERIsGrox, who wrote
''Letterblair. - the comedy that had its premier
last week with E. n. Sothern in the title
role, 10 a teacher of Greek In the Normal school
Of New York. She Is young. and in dress and
appearance suggests Miss Ellen Terry when
Miss Terry was younger. This, her Arst play,
was frankly and enthusiastically praised by all
but one of the leading New York critics. In the
same week in which Miss MsFington's star rose,
that OF last years young playwright. Clyde
Fitch, was dimmsd By a reported failure OF a
now comedy in London and hardly successful
premier in Brooklyn.