The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-05
PERSONAL

Mas. HENRY N. STANLEY is a direct descendant
the seventh IN line from Oliver Cromwell
Ex-AssIsrASr POSTMASTER GENERAL CLARK
Reed Is back TO care for things or not.
HAIRY A. GARFIELD was defeated for nomi-
nation TO the city council of Cleveland Tuesday
evening by Joha Hentz a saloonkeeper.
Il SEE Fannie Davenport still harries me with
her 'Cl opatra,' says Sarah Bernhardt; but
don't mind. IL brings more people TO see me"
WEED G. HAYES, son Of R. B. Hayes Of Ere
mont, o., lives In Cleveland, where he is rated
as business man OF great capacity and integ-
rity.
Hon. JERRY sIXPsoN OF Kansas was present az
the last monthly meeting Of the New York Eel
lowcraft Club, and was one of the speakers Of
the evening.
vow BULow. the musician, is an excellent and
accurate Greek scholar. He is. moreover, an
unusually wellinformed man, and an enter
tanning talker.
Mas. EMMA MoFFETT TYING, who has achieved
wel-earned reputation as q writer. is a daugh-
ter-iu-law Of the late DR.. Stephen H. Tying of
~ Georges CHURCH. She is said TO be a good
Greek scholar.
BARON Won RoTHscHILp has purchased the
villa used by Gsmbettl's father in Nice. 1t IS
said that the baron intends to put it up as an
asylum for the poor.
GEORGE PARSONS LATHRoP is a short, COM
pact and rather good looking young man. and
would be taken for broker or a merchant
rather than an author.
BERNHARDT had only half flied house at the
opening Of her season In Washington on Ionday
night, while Margaret Mather played to a large
audience in the same city.
MILLIONAIRE JAMES ROBINSON OF Phoenix
ArL, has at last found time to attend night
school, so that to his other possessions he may
add the ability TO read aud write.
Miss KINGSLEY, daughter of Cuarles Kingsley,
has gained by her writings, upon French art a
decoration of French academic palms, with the
grade of officer of the academy"
SENAToR-ELEcr BR1oE was dined recently at
the Manhattan Club. New York, by Marion J.
Verdery and Ernest Groesbeck of the stock ex-
change Among the guests was ex-President
Cleveland.
MISS KATHRYN KIDDER, who played Dearest"
during the run of Lord Fauntleroy," has gone
abroad to recuperate. Her health was badly
shaken during the attack OF typhoid fever she
had last summer.
MISS SYBIL SANDERsoN, the American girl who
has made such success on the operate stage
of Paris, is pretty blonde woman with frank
open face and lmpd blue eyes. She has a
EVELYN NEAL, handsome English woman,
has been arrested in Paris for marriage frauds
By advertising herself as wealthy widow she
succeeded in getting forty-three men to marry
her. When carried TO such lnordinate lengths
marriage is certainly failure.
The CzARowTrz OF RUSSIA, who is making a
tour Of tho world, is expected to reach San
Francisco in about week. Russia's treatment
of the Hebrews leads that class of people in
California
scheme for official honors to the grand duke
upon his arrival.
REPRESENTATIVES BRECKENRIDGE Of Kentucky,
! though one of the most eloquent orators in con.
gress, uses fewer gestures than any other
speaker there. When addressing the House he
usually stands in the middle of an aisle and
rests his hands on two desks. He is a model OF
courtesy in debate.
A CARRARA MARBLE bust which had for more
than twenty years stood on an American marble
pedestal, bearing the inscription Samuel
Adams" in the state house at Boston is de-
clared by commission of historical scholars to
pc one OF George Washington. 1t was OF Its
hRse all this time without scholarly Boston ever
| suspecting it.
GEORGE PARSONS LArHRoP, who. with his wife,
Rose Hawthorn Lathrop. daughter Of Nathaniel
| Hawthorn, has embraced the Roman Catholic
faith says, In a letter 10 James Jeffrey Rocne,
that no suggestions had been made TO him from
| auy source on the subject. The attempt to
| inform myself about tho church." he says, "be-
gan with the same impartiality, the same can
| dor and receptiveness that should use toward
any other subject upon which honestly de-
sired to form just conclusion"
DR., JORDAN, who has accepted the presidency
Of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, at Palo
Alto Cal, has been president of the Indiana
University for the past seven years, and at the
time Of his election was the youngest university
president OF the country. He graduated from
NJ In nT1d
the board Of trustees. He is 40 years old and
native of New YORK. He has the largest col
lection of fishes in the world ami his books are
standard on ichthyology, as are also his botan-
ical writings,