The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-11
PERSON a.

CEARLEv DuDlEY wARSER has taken VIA
al Florence. Italy. for the season
MEE- DE- BABRIos has startsd for St. Angus.
tine and viii fenain there fortnight.
Dr. FRAScIs T. DRAKE. a pensioaer Of the war
Of 1919, died at Lsesburg, Va, last Wednesday.
aged a.
Miss EENA steiner. a southsrner by birth, is
said 70 b the only woman operate conductor
IN America.
MISS BEADDoS. the novelist. Is careless about
the style and material Of Der garments, but her
diamonds are dazzling
NINE. BEEEHARDr is said 70 be Of HollAnder-
Jewish origin, a1d to have been born in Amster
dam about forty-six years ago.
Mis-. ". K vASDERBILT always wears com
mon sense" snee. and when she walks she
places her foot squarsly on the ground.
R E. LEE, son of Gen. W. H. F. Lee. has been
selected orator for the faaI exercises at Wash
ington and Lee University next summer.
PRoF. COOKE Of Harvard College has what is
supposed to be the best collection OF valuable
minerals and meteoric stones in the world.
The car owns house IN Holland. and is
having it thoroughly overhauled and made
sound. II was Peter the Greats house, in Zaan-
dam.
ADMIRAL Brown Of the United States cruiser
Charleston is alleged 70 have kissed all the
pretty girls in Honolulu during recent visit
there.
BARON Won SoDEE will, according to Berlin
papers, be appointed governor Of East Africa,
aad Dr.. Peters, the well-known traveller, will be
made lieutenant governor.
MISS Dolores MARsoURG, who has been col
laborating novel with George Cary Eggleston,
Is slender. graceful young girl, whose former
home was in Atchison, Kan.
FARRAsUT AND PORTER were the only two
American naval officers to Id the rank and
title of admiral. The rank will probably not be
revived uatil we have another war
ESoLIsH officers are sghast at the proposition
to abolish the cooked hat and feathers worn by
the superior officers Of the army. Mai. James
OF the Sixteenth Lancers started the idea.
TRUxroN BEALE, the new minister to Persia,
gets his baptisma name from mis- great grand
father, Commodore Thomas Truxton. who
helped win the early fame of the American
navy.
GEN LEW WALLACE and Secretary Foster
are almost doubles in personal appearance.
their resemblance being so striking that they
are frequently mistaken for each other Each
is a man of me4ium hight, weighing about ITO
pounds.
ELIJAH KELLOGG. the man who wrote 'spar.
CacdS 10 tne Gladlators' ana hegulus 10 the
Cart1agenians,' once so familiar to every school
boy, is still living n tarpswel Me. He is a
clergyman, 81 years old, and even now breaches
occasionally.
Mr.. ATKIHsoN's bill for curtailing the YER
bosity Of the House Of Commons proposes
Limitation of talk TO half an hour by the clock
for privy councillor and fifteen minutes for
ordinary members. Oddly enough, there Ia
said to be good deal Of support ready for it.
CAPT. JAMES CARROLL, the new congressional
delegate from Alaska, was born In Illinois and
was a sailor On the lakes in his youth, but for
the last eleven years commanded steamers
running from Columbia river to Sitka He rep
resents constituency Of about 5000 Alaskans.
HENRY LABoUCHERE praises very highly the
late Mr.. Bradlaugh, of whom he remarks:
"Often and often the conservatives have, in
friendly way, said to me- What a much bet
ter man 20 colleague is than you are" And
to this he makes the truly Laboueherean addi-
tom And entirely agreed with them
GEN HENDERSON, now president pro tenn. of
the Senate, made a good war record in the
Army of the Cumberland. He commanded the
Nineteenth Ohio Volunteers at Shiloh. though
he had entered the service q lieutenant. He
received a severe wound at Lovsjoy's station,
Sept. 2, 1854, which so disabled him t1at ne re-
signed He removed from Ohio to Nebraska in
1859. This Is his second term In the Senate.