The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-05
PERSONAL

IT IS said that Secretary Proctor. who may
succeed ex-senator Edmunds, does not drink
cold tea.
Mr.. BLAINE's fortune is estimated at about
S750C00. a friend Of his says, and much of ii Is
Invested in railroads and mining properties
PROBABLY the Oldest living twins are Mrs.
Hannah Eustis and Miss Sarah Barr of Wake
field. Mass. who were born in Salem on March
81. 1900.
GEN. LEW wallace is at work on a new
story. but as he is an extremely careful and
painstaking author, it is not likely TO be pub
ushed Tor some time.
IT is claimed that the Mikado has become
convert to Unitarisnism. One would have
thought that with his experience of the Three
Little Maids From school, ne would have been
more likely TO embrace Trlnitarianlsm.
TIE FIRST CHILD born of white parents
in California was Thomas A. Sutherland of
Portland, Ore. who became newspaper man,
and was the editor Of a weekly paper when he
was drowned the other day while endeavorlng
to catch ferryboat.
IT is only when Chauncey NJ. Depew begins
TO reflect that there are 600 innocent and help
less children who will have to stagger through
HE bearing his name that he loses all pleasure
In good dinner AMI vaguely eats olives instead
or cucumber TO his salmon.
JOHN G. WHITTIER is so modest that his
niece. who is preparing a biography of him,
has found it very difficult to obtain any aid
from him in her work. His strength is grad
usly falling, and he is forced to give up the
long walks ne formerly took.
LIKE many other pc lple who amuse the pub
lie, and whose life seems frivolous to the I'M
thinking, Comedian Francis Wilson is a hard
student. He has a fine library in his New
Rochelle home, is man of domestic tastes,
and has only one pronounced weakness pas
sion for lawn tennis.
CLARENCE II. FREEMAN, the champion checker
player of the land, is mulatto with slight
tinge of Pequot Indian blood He used to be a
porter ard errand boy in an old tavern IN Provi-
dence. where he lives, and began to play check
ers when he was years old. using white and
black beans for men -
Miss CHARLOTTE HIGGISs, who carried off the
honers of entrance into the University of Lon
don over 1000 male students, is little Scotch
girl 20 years old, aud. to Judge from her pict-
ure. very youthfulookihg person. Her
brilliant education has been due to the efforts
OF her mother, her father having died when
she was q child of years. ma
BARON NATHAN DE ROrHsCHILDs is an anna
teur photographer who goes -tramping around
the Italian frontier of Austria taking snap shots
at pretty views But his traInping has no hard
ship with 1t. Servants and egupages are at his
command and he lives like lord and feeds like
gourmet. his meals being forwarded by train
from Vienna. No country hotel fare for Ma
than.
JOHN c. WILLIAMSON. a colored man who
edits a Raleigh, n. c. paper. is going to run
for congress on a platform which should make
his candidacy q bowling success among the
voters of bis race. One plank in it modestlv
demands that the government shall appropri-
ate $500 for every negro held in slavery since
1900, the money TO be divided between the ex-
slaves anu their Former owners eA
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, the young author
and editor. is a rather handsome fellow of ne
dunn hight with an athletic and well-knit
figure. His features are clean-cut, his eye
bright. and he has the bearing of a well-bred
gentleman. II the adulation with which he
is at present being overwhelmed does not spoil
him, he may some day take high rank in the
American world of letters.
EDWARD ATKINSON the only man in America
who is able to make statistics as interesting to
the general reader as a love- story. is a hand
some man of large. robust figure. His hair and
beard are white with the SHOWS of sixty-fve
years, He wears steel-rimmed spectacles when
at work and always talks in a precise. judicial
tone. He has been student of economy and
finance for nearly forty years.