The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-25
PERSONAL.

CONGRESSMAN WILLIaM L. WILSON Of West
Virginia is the guest of Chauncey F. Black al
York. Pa.
AT A RECENT SALE of Wilkie Collins manu-
scripts. THE New Magdalen" brought s105
THE Woman in White" $40. and ''Moonstone''
S. so.
| PRESIDENT HARRISON claims the soldiers
chorus in Gounod's Faust as his favorite air,
while Hail Columbia drives him into melan-
choly.
OSCAR wILDE's latest exhibition of himself
was In long brown coat Enthusiastically fash
Toned, q heliotrope necktie and yellow carna-
lions.
GORDON CUNNING has been described by the
Duke Of Cambridge as the best soldier in war
and the worst in time of peace in the British
army"
j. N. Huston OF Indiana, ex-treasurer of
the United States, has discovered a fine layer Of
marble on his farm, and will develop the
quarry.
Mr.. BALFouR has sold his highland estate of
strathconan, Ross-shire, to Mr. Coombe, the
brewer, for 100000. The estate is "a. 900 acres
In extent.
In YOUTHFUL DAYS Senator German was left
fielder OF the National Baseball Club of Wash
ington, and had an unerring ere and decided
grin IN wandering flies.
DR.. j. A. OUcHTEaLoxY of Louisville, been
elected member of the Swedish Royal Acad-
envy of Sciences The society was founded by
King Gustavus Ill, and membership is es-
tsemed great honor.
DON PEDRO may have lost his throne, but he
has not addicted from his knowing how many
cents there are in dollar. Recently, while
travelling with his suite in the Alps he paralyzed
the hotel keepers oy dumping wads of tourist
coupons before them when he was settling his
bill, and made them mad enough to go out and
call Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau couple of
measly pimples
The GERMAN EMPEROR intends to be at Cowes
during the first week in August when the
royal yacht squadron regattas take place. and
will sail the celebrated Clyde racing cutter
Thistle, which he has purchased from Mr. Bell
and has rechristened the Meteor for the queens
cup She is vessel of 40 tons, and ii is I'M
derstood at Cowes that she is to be entered for
all the royal yacht squadron matches for which
she is qualified.
LABoucHERE recently wrote: There is
ruffian in the United States of the name of john
L. Sullivan, professionals pugilist This man
has taken to the stage. He announces that no
inducement will tempt him to act in England,
and he desires it to be universally known that
he holds the English people in contempt.
hasten, therefore, TO do my share in making
public this important pronouncement against
MARK TWAIN and George w. Cable are enter
tanning companions on the lecture platform. but
the public never sees the most amusing outcome
of their companionship. Cable is a devout
Presbyterian, while Mark Is what some good
folk call a careless man. This latter fact
disturbs Cable, and he is constantly endeavor-
ing to show Mark the errors of his ways. The
futihty of Cables effort suggests Artemus
Wards proposed remedy for secession, which
was to go to Richmond and persuade jefferson
Davis to join the Young Mems Christian Asso
citation.
AN AMERICAN OFFICER says that the basis of
Moltke's success was preparation, precision.
For years the quiet man had bent every energy
TO detail. He had devoted no time to show
work; he cared naught for the outward parade
Of efficiency He had made sure that what the
army was on paper it was in effect that every
man and officer ready and knew his place
and duty; that mobilization should mean actual
assembly. Every uncertain element was elm
mated. So far as lay within human power
war had been reduced to mathematical cal
culation