The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-03
PERSONAL.

A BRoTEER Of Mark Twain IS an attorney in
KeokUk :he old home Of the humorist. He is
well-to-do financially. ard devotes but little
time 70 ais profession.
DION BoUcIcAuLr's young son is a frequent
figure in New York society Of q certain kind.
lie is weilmaie and rather handsome man
with dark eyes and dark bushy hair.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS sALA tbs correspondent,
is described as q jolly boy Of 68. lie is a man
whose Initials furnished him at the beginning
of his career with clew TO his future success
IN life.
The YOUNG CzARowrrz or RUSSIA has been a
most Industrious student, and is now one of the
best informed men of his age in Eastern Europe.
he is especially well yersed la the higher
sciences.
T.:E condition Of Prince George, second son OF
the car, according 70 late reports, is extremely
dlscouraging. Both lungs are now said to be
diseased The young man S return TO st. Peters
burg has besn postponed indefinitely.
LOUIS LEsHNG. wis was = very intimate
friend Of Laurence Olphant. has written out
some remlDEscenoes of that strange and brilliant
man. The little book has just beeu published
in London and viii probably be reprinted here,
B1sHoP FRENCH of England, who died recently
in Arabia, was known as that nlany-tongued
mon of Lahore" for ne could preach IN En-
Tamil and Punjsbi, aud wes an eminent scholar
in Hebrew, Arabic, SyTisc. Greek and Latin.
MRS. Ia MAY DAVIS, who has been elected q
member Of the city school board Of Terre
Hsute, is the first woman in the state of In
diana 10 hold such a position. Though still
young woman, she has been teacher for ten
years, aud is the author Of consi Ierabe literary
work
HARRISON LUDINGToS. the ex-governor of
1uhO haC fad in, Mfiuanhaa
commenced his career at that point in 1888 as
the immediate business successor of solomon
Juneau, MilWauxee's first settler. The lives of
these TWO men cover the whole history Of the
great northwest.
Mas. ATHERToN, the Kansas poetess, who is
responsible for walls of Corn, looks as little
like a poetess as it is possible for femininity to
approach. True, she does not construct verse
of the ''fne-frenzy rolling" kind, but she looks
out through her kindly spectaces as though
she could construct heavenly doughnuts, poetic
PIES and angelic salt-rislns bread.
ASA REWARD for his services in exploring the
Mackenzie and Yukon river districts in the far
away northwest William Ogilvey of the Domin-
ion survey has been awarded the Murchison
medal by the British Royal Geographical
Society. The name of Murchison is not alto
gether unknown in this country, but that IS
another story" as Rudyar1 Kipling would say.
The YOUNG KING OF SPAIN is very small but
sinewy, restless. full Of fun and precocious. He
will not have toy horses but for two years has
desired live horse in order TO run races. He
says thou to all people. He likes to nick
name the old generals. When he does not get
what he wishes at once he grows exceedingly
angry. and can be quoted only by soft words Of
the queen Iegent. He speaks excellent English
already. What offends him especially is the
knowledge that he is still a child.
SOME of New York's celebrated millionaires
are adept performers on musical instruments.
John D. Rockefeller is an enthusiast with the
flute and William Waldorf Aston plays Classi
cal melodies on the piano and organ, In his
boyhood Roswell P. Flower loved to play the
bones in an amateur minstrel troupe. Andrew
Carnegie's instrument at the same period was
a Scotch bagpipe, while Russell Sage used to
beat the drum In Thanksgiving and other
parades. Henry Clews still fingers the piano;
so do Robert Goelet and John H. lnman-
Frederick Vanderbilt finds charms in the banjo,
and Col De Lancey Kane is the best amateur
cOrnet PLAYER in the country