The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-01
PERSONAL


President HARRISON and party will arrive al
| Mount McGregor, y. Y. on Aug. IS, for weeks
I stay as guests offW. J. ArkeA
THE DUKE OF EDrNBrRGH is the most penuri-
GUS member of the royal family. and when he
parts with sovereign there is a reluctance
| visible In the effect which would make bill
shaver weep out OF sheer sympathy
TIE LATE EDWARD BURGESS. the famous yacht
designer, designed or helped design. 30 differ
/ ent vessels, from steam yacht to a catboat
| The Puritan was his ninteTptb design, the May
| flower the twentieth aud the Volunteer the
/ sixteth.
IHE late Hannibal Haniin was a famous fish
erman. and with him died the secret knowledge
OF the whereabouts in the Maine woods OF more
than one trout brook from which the veteran
angler coS1ed famous striags of speckled
| beauties
Baroness FAvA is an Italian lady of rare &c
complishments, who speaks several European
languages fuently and correctly, as vel as En-
glIsh She is a great admlrer Of America,
though the climate has prevented her from
living mere for two or three years
AMONG the mikado's warriors is Col WATSON,
the first American officer ever admitted to the
japanese army He has had many strange ex-
perlences and once narrowly escaped being be
! headed for participation in an Instruction, but
now stands high in OFFICIAL favor and ranks as q
colonel.
The FIRST BLIND PERSON to pass the examina-
ton of the American College of Musicians in
New York city is Henry Tschudi, who comes
from Corinth, Miss, and has been pupil in the
| New York Institution for the Blind for the last
SIX years. He has from childhood shown tai
ent Tor music, and now, at the age of II years
handles the pipe organ as well as an organist
with two good eyes.
COUNT HoLsTEIS- HoLsTEIEBORG, chief court
marshal of the King of Denmark, whose recent
marriage with a singer OF a dancing nall Gre
ated such sensation in Copenhagen, has been
paced under guardianship. The sportive
count who was successful in the spirited con
test among the jeunesse dOree of Denmark for
the young woman's hand enjoys the respect
able age of 50 years.
The MEMBERS of the imperial family of Russia
have definitely decided TO spend a part of the
summer in the Crimea The czar and czarina
VIII also visit Moscow to attend the French eS-
hl0ltlon in the old Russian capital. In company
WIN the czarowitZ the viii proceed to
OrenolrR IN August to witness the celebration
IN honor of the Booth anniversary of the estab
lshment of the Ural Cossacks.
The IMPRESSION given generally by the pct-
ures of Edmund Clarence Stedman is that he is
large man. On the contrary he is not above
the average stature while his general personal
appearance is that of a cultivated and prosper
Gus business man. Mr.. Stedman has recently
Poetry at Johns Hopkins University and later
on will repeat them at Columbia College.
BARON CONSTANTINE DE GRIMM the well-known
artist and caricaturist. is a thorough Bohemian,
and has an aversion to becoming an American
cltzen. He will sail for Germany shortly for
the purpose OF renewing his citizenship in that
country. The baron is half Russian, and spent
his boyhood in the winter palace at st. Peters
burg with the present Gar of Russia The
little Alexander's preceptor was De Grimm s
father.
MAINE claims the honor of first shipping ice
by wholesale, and ice and the price of ice always
calls TO mind the late James Cheeseman Of Gar
diner, in that state, who butt the first icehouse
on the river and shipped the cargo to the south
ern market. His house had 60, 900 tons capacity,
and from 1t grew the immense ice business of
the Kennebec valley Mr. Cheeseman received
So, S33 80 from tine United States government in
the late war for single shpload consigned to
Virginia. Although he made several fortunes
during his lifetime, he died penniless.