The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-12
PERSONAL.

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| IsNATIUs DoNSELLY says that IL he knows
himself well enough to be at large without a
keeper, he will not be a candidate for the Presi-
dency on the third or any other party's ticket.
Rxv. FRANK DE WITT TALNAGE. the son of his
father, preached in tho Brooklyn Tabernacle
last Sunday to an immense congregation. His
style OF delivery is very much like that of the
elder Talmage.
EUGENE BERTRAND, the new director of the
Grand Opera House of Paris. served appren-
tceship as a theatrical manager in the United
States He is 81 years old, and abandoned
medicine for the stage
JAMES A. MANN, John B. Lawrence, and
Frank \. Wood have disposed of their interest
in the Kansas City Journal, and are succeeded
by ex-Congressman r T. Van Horn and W. A.
Bunker in the editorial and business manage
ment.
Mr.. PRATT, the philanthropist who died re-
Gently, is reported by DR.. Cnyler to have said:
The greatest humbug in the world is the idea
mat money can make man happy. never
had any satisfaction with mine until began to
do good with it,"
MILLIONAIRE WILLIAM EARLE DODGE Stokes
and jefferson Levy will contest for the demo
cratic nomination for Gen. Spinola's vacant
seat in congress. Col TaOmas p. Ochlltree Of
Texas will probably be the republican nominee.
As Gen. Spinola's district is reliably Tammany
by 5000 the latter is doubtless one of Col. Ochil-
trees jokes.
IT IS REPcRrED of Mr.. Sturgeon that while
preaching in large hall the air became OPP
pressive, and. stopping in the midst of his ser
mon. he said: IF those persons sitting near
the windows will take their canes and umbrellas
and knock out sufficient glass to let in some
fresh air | will pay all the damages as soon as
am done preaching"
Gov. FENNER, member Of one of the old
Rhode Island families, was for many years the
democratic governor of the state. One day
when several of his democratic friends were at
his house he entertained them with cham
payne and olives One of the departing guests
said: The governors cider was real good, but
don't think much of his pickles."
IN ADDITION to her duties as her husband
private secretary, which include the handling
OF several hundred invitations a week, Mrs
Chauncey NJ. Depew personally supervses the
education, reading ami recreationS of her son
and of her two little orphan nieces; is her own
houSekeeper, and yet finds time to continue
her studies in German and French and to prac-
tee daily.
HIRAM HUNT, who recently died at Robinson
Me-, is said to have been the original clock
maker of Sam Slick" He was selling stocks
in Nova Scotia, when he came under the notice
OF the author. He never felt proud of the no
toriety which the book gave him, and resented
illusions to it. His age at the time of his death
was nearly 80 years a number of his wooden
clocks are still in existence.
THERE is not now a single descendant in the
male line of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spencer,
Milton, Cowley, Butler, Dryden, Pope, Cowper,
Philip Sidney, nor of Sir Walter Raleigh; not
one OF Drake, Cromwell, Hampden, Monk
Marlborough, Peterborough or Nelson; not
one of Bolngbroke, Walpole. Chatham, Pitt
Fox, Burke, Grattan or Canning; not one of
Bacon, Locke. Newton or Davy; not one of Glib
bon or Macaulay; not one of Hogarth, Sir
Joshua Reynolds or Sir Thomas Lawrence; not
one of David Garrick, John Kemble or Edward
KeaD.