The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-28
PERSONAL
HANS vow BUtOw is giving up his public piano

HANS Won BuLow is giving up bis public piano
recitals.
ADA GRAY Of Cincinnati is said to be ''the
only colored lady dentist in this country.
THoRSDIKE RICE is said to have once won
$4,000 at draw poker at a single sitting.
SENATOR GEORGE is capable of speaking
twenty hours on stretch; Senator Faulkner,
spoke fourteen hours on the election bill; and
senator blair made five days speech on his
educational bill
DR. L. a. cRAIeHILL Of Lynchburg, Va, has
presented TO the Baltimore Zoo at Druid Hill
Kong; emma, being part Of crop brought home
by Hon. Robert Z. Withers, late consul 70
Hong Kong.
MARX TWAIN is not, as is generally supposed,
doing less literary work than formerly. 1t is
only because he puts such q high Mckinley
tarln price on his fun that the papers are not
aoie 70 use II, except upon state occasions, when
little e1traVagance may be safely INDUCED in
Mas. MARIA Cora Mcguire, who il suing her
husband, Rev Hugh Mcguire, pastor Of the
Protestant Episcopal church of Our Savior in
Brooklyn, for divorce, declared on the witness
stand that she would have eloped with his
satanic majesty himself to escape her husband.
GES. MILES is fond OF good living, and when
he is in the field his mess" is most Ilen l.
fully supplied. He believes also in feeding his
soldiers well, and, unlike julius Cesar holds
toHhe opinion that a soldier can fight better on
tull stomach than when weakened by the pangs
OF hunger.
The EARL OF DEvoS became bankrupt 10
1872. owing $3,5o0,0OO, most of which was ION
honor" or for racing obligations. He paid
about half cent on dollar. and didn't lose
much rest over the balance AS he il dead now
ms patent creditors may strike balance and
call 1t square.
JEREMIAH (socKLEss) SIMPSON is not product
OF the American soil, but was born in Vroom
field, hamlet five miles below Sarnia, Ont
along the river Jeremiah is still known as Capt.
Simpson, for he sailed a schooner until he had
got together the 5000 that gave him the i'm
petus to go west.
KAGEAMA HIDE is the Japanese Louise
Michel (but, it is asserted, without the French
agitator's fapaticism) who is gradually getting
things, social and political in the Mikado's en-
pire she IS q years old, and is represented as
pretty and gentle.
Mr.. BANCROFT, while Secretary of the Navy,
acted as Secretary of War from June to June
3d. 1885 during the temporary abs nee of
Secretary Marcy, and on June Is. 1S45, he issued
orders to Gen. Taylor to embark his troops for
the western frontier of Texas as soon as he
should ascertain that the people of Texas had
accepted the proposition Of annexation to the
United States.
w. A. HARRIS, the alliance leader of Leaven-
worth county, appears TO be looming up as a
| candidate for Unite States senator from Kan
| saS IL is said that ilfty-siX alliance mem
| beers and the eight democrats are pledged to
| him. Harris was a colonel in Pickett's famous
| confederate division and was with that dashing
| commander at Gettysburg After the war he
went west and settled in LeaYenworUh county,
| where he has made great deal of money in
| farming and stock raising. He is said to be a
| scholarly man, AID in range and extent of
reading one of the best informed men in the
| state