The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-13
PERSONAL.

DR- PHILLIPS Brooks will, in all probiliiy. be
made the Episcopalan Bishop OF Massachu-
sets.
| REV. ANToINETTE BRowN BLACKWELL was
the first woman ordained to the ministry in this
| country.
QUEEN VIcroRIA's months sojourn at Grasse,
In the Maritime Alps. will cost somewhere be-
tween $500 and 10000
The nightly receipts of Mr.. Stanley's recent
lecture tour averaged g., 80, of which the lect-
urers share is over $4,000.
Mas. HANNAH ADAMS, born in Massachusetts
IN j; IS. was the first American woman who
made literature profession.
ROSWELL P. FLOWER is said to be passionately
devoted to euchre. spending from six TO eight
hours day at its card tables.
WMHELNINA, Hollands child Queen, speaks
four languages, and is reputed TO be the heress
TO the greatest fortune in the world.
Mas CATHERINE T. SMILEY who 6sed in Sails
bury. Nd, last week. claimed direct descent
from Lord Bacon. through her father.
DR.. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL was the first Amer
lean woman to receive a medical diploma. She
graduated at Geneva, n Y, in lS49.
d. NJ. HART, one of w u. Evarts private
secretaries. is a colored man. He is graduate
OF Harvard college, and young lawyer of more
than average ability.
Mrs MARGARET CRAPER of the Massachusetts,
Gazette and Netos Letter was the first Ameri-
can woman to do newspaper work. She wrote
during the years of the revolution.
LIEUT.. Gov. JONES of New York has been in
vited to lead the Sixth Massachusetts regiment
through the streets of Baltimore again on the
10Th anniversary of the memorable April 10.
THE GEAR OF RUSSIA is said to have fond
ness for rising early in the morning and going
about the market places of st. Petersburg. Not
Tor the royal larder.
I. v PowDERLY has written and published
book entitled Thirty Years Labor, 1S59-'S9,'
which is a comprehensive history of the labor
movement, and useful contribution to the
economic literature of the day.
LORD RossE, the British astronomer. ad-
dressed the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
in San Francisco few days ago, devotng him
SELF mainly to description of the great reflect
ing telescope at Birr Castle, and its work.
CAPT JOHANN ORTIZ. the missing Austrian
Archduke, was signaled or the Pacific ocean,
some weeks ago, according to a statement in
French paper published in Yokohama, but
the story is not received with credence in
Vienna.
Mrs. E. ANDERSON LAYTON, of New York,
daughter of Gen. Robert Anderson, of Fort
Sumter fame, has presented life-sized crayon
portrait of her father to the veteran battalion
which did guard duty over his funeral casket
nineteen years ago.
ADELAIDE RIsToRI, the great actress of a
former generation, is nearer 20 than go years of
age, but says a Roman correspondent, is still
beautiful woman, with voice strong and clear,
her Hne figure straight and graceful, and face
neither wrinkled nor yellow.
Gov. ALBEIT AND STAFF of New Jersey were
given reception at Orange, n. j., Thursday
night. The governor in his speech referred to
Jefferson as typical democrat who believed
in filling all the offices with democrats, and he
1.-THE govsrnor) had been trying to emulate JEFF
ferson s example"
MISTRESS AAGARET BRENT, spinster and gen
tlewoman," was the first American woman to
appear in court as an attorney, She pros
ecuted and defended causes in the provincial
courts of Maryland in 1917. She had no sue.
cessor until Arabella A. Mansfield was admitted
TO the Iowa bar in 1869
EDWARD WALDO EMERSON relates this Incl
dent of the author Thoreau: When the forest
haunting hermit lay on his deathbed a Calvin
lstic friend called to make inquiries regarding
his soul, Henry, ~ he said anxiously, have
you made your peace with God?" "Jonn," re-
Piled the dying naturalist In a whisper, II didn't
know That God and myself had quarreledn'