The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-01
PERSONAL

LORD SALrsBURYs IDEAS are always unpopu-
lar, but his style of speaking captivstes the
crowd.
REV. SAM JONES, in an interview, estimates
the number of conversions under his preaching
at $50, 900 to 300 600
ELLEN TERRY. describing stage fright says:
You fell as il centipede. all of whose feet
had been carefully iced mad begun to run about
IN the roots of your hair.
ALMA TADEMAs popularity is now at its hight,
and London picture buyers are paying literally
for any of his productions. Three of his Ital-
ian pieces were in the Santurce collection, and
at the sale realized S37, $50.
CAPTAIN JOHN ORTIZ CArchduke Johann) was
insured in an Austrian company for S58,000
and as all hopes of him and his ship have been
abandoned, this money has just been placed at
the disposal of his executors.
HENRIK IBsEN was entertained at a banquet
OF journalists and actors the Hotel CONT
mental in Vienna, on April 20. R. Won Son
nenthal, the actor. toasted him as the greatest
living dramatist, " whereupon Ibsen kissed him.
WAYNE MAcvEAeH, who successfully de-
Tended the Pullman Car Company in the suit
against it of the Central Transportation Com
pany. IN case involving millions of dollars. is
reported to have been rewarded with a 100000
fee.
THE DUKE OF CLARENCE and Avondale, va
rlously known as Prince Eddie. Prince "Col-
lars and Cuffs and Duke of "C1aret and Lemon
ade, Is just q, and while he is no great shakes
he can have his pick OF TIE royal ladies' of Eu-
rope.
BARON DE GoNDoRIz, the great rubber ex-
porter of the Amazon, has been appointed
special financial commissioner for Brazil to the
United State. He is now in New York on his
way to Europe
Miss KATE MARsDEN is in a likely way TO make
herself a martyr TO medical science. She has
arrived at Irkutsk on her way to Yakutsk, for
the purpose of studying leprosy among the
natives of Siberia.
NANCY HATCH, Yazoo (Missl negress, began
to turn white seven years ago, and now she
would almost pass for a woman of Caucasian
descent. Almost the only remnant of her
former black skin is dark line about her
| neck.
Two MEMENTos of Theodore Parker have been
discovered by travelling journalist in a rich
and elegant Indiana house. They are his bead
work watchstaad and the marble hand paper
weight which held down the pages of his SER
mons.
Ex-PHEsIDENr AND Mrs. GROVER CLEVELAND
will make Tudor Haven their principal o ace of
residence during the summer months, much to
the disappointment Of the residents of Marion,
who have been hoping that they would again
| spend the season there.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE's prominence as the
Unitarian leader incites the Boston Herald to
propose that some formal reco gnition of the
| fact be made by the denomination to which he
| belongs. Bishop Hale" for instance, our
| contemporary thinks. wouldn't sound bad.
| MISS LOUISE IMoGEN Quincy is at home as en-
tirely as if she had not been long time in Lon
Auburndale is a pleasant place for poets sum-
| mer house. although, indeed, 1t is now Miss
| Guiney'S all-the-y ear-round house. II was soon
| after she went there from town to live that she
wrote to friend, concerning an engagement to
read in town for a kindergarten FOR the blind
entertainment: II am now a wretched sub
! urbanite"
IT is SAID that one Of the most striking peculi-
arities of Pope Leo XIII is the convulsive
| tremor Of his hands which one sees on meeting
| him. This is not result of age but the conse-
| quence OF typhoid fever from which he suffered
at Perugia twenty five years ago. So great is
| When he has to sign document he is obliged
to hold the wrist of his right hand in order to be
able to trace letters that would otherwise be
unreliable.
| AN ENGAGEMENT which will be announced in
short time, and one which will interest fash
| ionable society is that of Miss Sallie Hargous
and Duncan Elliott. Miss Hargous is of me-
| dium hight and of slender figure, a pronounced
| brunette, with a fresh complexion and radiant
! black eyes. She has been Tor several seasons
counted one of the beauties of the day. Miss
| Hargous is about II years old. and her formal
introduction 10 society occurred at Newport
| three years ago.