The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-28
PERSONAL.

STKoIA TESLA. the electrician, says that the
time will come when a ship will be able to tele-
graph to the shore without cable.
Cor. NORTH. the nitrate king. when boy
worked in a boiler shop. He was sent to Peru
as a machinist and there discovered the worth
OF the nitrate beds.
LADY RUSSELL, of divorce court fame Is also
a famous horsewoman and is known to all
boaters on the upper reaches or the Thames for
her skill at the oars.
RUFUS HATCH when he first went on Wall
street owned $4,000 and had q borrowed capt.
tai OF g., 900. What he has now no one knows
but It is somewhere in the millions.
DR.. J. H. PORTER Of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, who believes that Tennessee is richer in
evidences OF a prehistoric race than any other
OF our states, is preparing book upon the sub
ject.
CONGRESSMAN MCMrLLIS says that for seve n
years he made it practice to commit a poem
TO memory before breakfast every morning in
order TO put himself in a pleasant frame Of
mind for the day.
The czARowTrz will visit Paris in February
and will remain in the city ten days, after which
period he will proceed to London to attend the
wedding OF the Duke Of Clarence and Avondale
and Princess Victoria Mary eff Teck
A MOVEMENT is now on foot among several
Duchess of Teck, to purchase the big building
opposite the Bachelors Ciup and run a club on
the same lines 10 be called The Ladies Club"
NINE. MoNTT, wife of the Chilean minister In
Washington, is said TO be a charming woman.
and when she has obtained a better command
OF the English language it is expected that she
VIII prove an attractive figure in society at the
capital.
MISS AMY BAKER is making a good deal OF
hv har oil Of No,
men who spend an hour q day in listening to
her selection of editorials and articles on cur
rent events, clipped from American and foreign
journals.
WILLIAM MORRIS, the English poet who is
deemed & probable successor of Lord Tennyson
in the laureateship, is the manager of a factory
for wall paper, has q profitable bric-a- brac
shop and owns several shares in q successful
magazine.
CAROLINE Won BEETHOVEN, the last bearer of
the composers name, died q few days ago In
Vienna She vas "a years old, and was the
widow Of Ludwig's nephew, Charles, who
caused the great Beethoven much trouble dur
ing his lifetime.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY NErrLEToN favors the
creation Of another executive department Of
the government. to be known, perhaps. as the
Department OF Commerce." so as to relieve
the treasury department, which has grown too
big for one man, he thinks.
Rev. ROBERT OoLLyER, of the Church of the
Messiah. in New York, had finished his sermon
the other Sunday He announced the hymn
ana said In his characteristic manner: ''6ing
better than You did the last hymn, if you can"
Then he noticed q startling expression among
the members of the choir, and added: 81 mean
the congregation
EMPEROR WILLIAM obtained splendid sport
during the recent battues in Gohrde Forest,
near Wittenberg, severe weather having caused
the Wild boaTs to leave their usual hiding places
In herds. There is to be an imperial shooting
party next week at the preserves near Potsdam
In honor of the Duke Of Edinburgh, who 10 ex-
pccted at Berlin for q few days visit to the
Empress Frederick