The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-06
PERSONAL.

SECRETARY RUsK is not going abroad this
summer, but is spending his vacation in Wis
consin.
REMESYI. the violinist has written a book on
japanese art, which is soon to be published in
London.
JERRY SIMPSON has written TO the mauag gers
of the Third party that he will make no speeches
in Ohio this year.
EDWIN BOOTH is at Narragansett Pier, the
guest of his son in-aw, L X. Grossman, at
Rosalind cottage. He has flesh and his step is
elastic.
L. G. Rose, the owner of Fairy, Nomad and
several other fast horses. is looked upon as the
co nIng successor of the late Senator Hearst in
racing circles.
The LARGEST SALARY drawn at present by any
diplomatist, according to foreign papers, is that
of $4,000 drawn by NJ. Washington, French
ambassador in London.
IT IS SAID that Philip D. Armour is the largest
individual commercial operator in the world.
HIS transactions last year reached the enormous
aggregate of 500, 100000.
Miss SNYDER, the new American prima donna,
now in London, is described as above the me-
dunn height. slender and graceful, with pale
oval lace, gray eyes and dark hair
ANDREW LACY, the English literary free-lance,
is tall. emaciated and dark. He has what is
known as a Mark Twain drawl. and is supposed
to be the hardest worker in England.
GEORGE H. HURLBUT of Bevidere, Ill. who
has been elected commander of the Illinois Sons
of Veterans, is the son of Gen. Stephen H. Hurl-
but, who died while minster to Chile.
MRS. KENNEDY, wife Of the president of the
Spring Garden Bank of Philadelphia has issued
cards notifying the public that SIZE has opened
in the shadow of the closed bank building
store for the sale of fine preserves.
Mrs. CHARLES PAGE, who has been appointed
regent in the society of the Daughters of the
Revolution, is a niece of J. Fenimore Cooper,
the novelist. Her husband, Dr. Charles Page,
y. 5. A., has his quarters at Governors Island,
New York harbor.
THE GRAVE of Barbara Fritchie in the Ger.
man Reformed church cemetery, near Fred
erick, Md, is marked simply with a headstone
bearing her name, age and "1S72' There is a
tangle of briers and creeping vines running
wild over the mound.
NJ. SARCEY. French journalist has a novel
way of gaining news. He has elegant apart
ments, rich cigarettes and choice absinthe
Pans eossips and men of prominence enjoy his
hospitality and unburden secrets and matters
OF interest. These he makes subjects for the
briRhC comments over mis- signature which
grace the Partisan press.
FROM the way Elisee Reclus, the French
geographer and scientist, has gone about while
visiting in Boston, there is apparently little of
the recluse about him He expects, before re-
turning TO France, to make an extended tour of
this country. When he returns home he will
publish his great geography of the United
States, on which he has long been at work.
AMONG the attractive married women at Mar
ragansett Pier is Mrs. William Shepard nee
Celtic Gwynne from Cette, France where she
was born) the sister of Mrs. Cornelius Wander
blt and Mrs, William Fearing Gill. Mrs. Shep-
ard is big brunette with handsome eyes and
is always handsomely gowned and wears mag
nificent jewels, which set Off her radiant color
ing.
COMMODORE RAMSEY, who succe eded Admira
John Walker as chief of the bureau of naviga-
ton, is picturesque figure in the navy depart
ment. He looks more like a popular New York
preacher than a naval officer He is one of the
| best sailors of the navy, however, and is a man
of fine physique, tall. straight as an Indian
| with close-cropped silvery hair and trim little
| gray mustache. His manners are elegant and
| in striking contrast to those of king John"
Walker, as his predecessor was called.