The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-18

lightful breakfasts IN society people, more
particularly the hunting set, OF which she Is
a member, and in the Afternoon she works
steadily at, her writing. In the evening
her boOss "a always Omen to visitors, and an
inf9 stiob % Ane Of her receptions is gladly
accaptet y 10 not know Of any one who IS
as much tob be envied as she.
DULL TINES IN WALL STREET.
The bottom seems TO have dropped out OF
speculation in Wall street, AID Just what
the thousands Of brokers and their clerks
are going ta-do to get enough TO eat during
| the next twelve months, is q problem that
they, a. least, would be very glad if some
one would solve. There is absolutely no
/ bgsness done IN stock speculation, and those
/ firms who have heretofore occupied splendid
offices are now giving them up and going to
/ cheaper quarters. The clerks have little
or nOdAinga 10 DO, and receive but little
( orHo pay for doing it. The head Of one big
| brokefhgs house, " hose expenses average
nearly $50 day, told me yesterday that
I be had not MADE $50 in a week on commits
sionS What is true in his case is true 10 an
extent with others. Time was when the
Jolly little broker was described as q man
arrayed in purple and fine linen, with good
capon lined, wearing profusion of jewels
and swimming in champag o. The real fact
is, the average broker Is decidedly shoidy
in appearance to-day, is content with a
God when he gets q glass OF beer, for even
that is preferable 10 nothing. In the cafes
where in the days gone by there were revels
in the afternoon and an incessant popping
Of champagne corks, now one only hears
lamentations, and occasionally call for
glas OF beer, and in the meantime, the dear
public looks on and is content not to be in
1t. So far as business is Concerned, Wall
street is about as cheerful as a cemetery is
70 healthy man.
THE HoMELIEsT MAN IN NEW YORK STATE.
Visitors TO the Fifth Avenue hotel oc-
casionallY see lounging through the cor
ridors a man whose face Is so homely as to
cause them to stop and comment upon it,
Without exaggeraHon State Senator Ir win
can boast of being homelier than any other
man in the state, II not in tho country. His
nose is big and out of all proportion to bis
face His mouth bulges oIt, and his
lips are as thick as a negroes. There
are little mountains and hills OF fie b on his
cheeks that give him very unsightly APP
pearance, and his eyes are big and stare at
you in a most wonderful way. AS a lady
said about him when he was making a
great speech in the Senate one night, ''he is
MORALLY bonely.n But he has other
claims to distinction as well. There is no
better parlimentarian, ana he is splendid
public speaker. As for politics, he ia as
cunning as was Silas Wright But he is
MORALLY homely.
EX-POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES.
One hardly ever hears Of ex-Postmastsr
General James these days, and probably
half the country has forgotten him. He
seems to have completely dropped out Of
the public mind, and yet he is in New York
all day, piling up the nimble dollars at a
rate that will make him millionaire within
a very short time. / saw him in the Lincoln
bank yeste' day, fresh OF face, straight of
form, and as CHEEKY and contented as
one could be. He seldom goes out in
public now, takes no interest in politics.
has nothing to do with politicians, but at
tends solely to tho business of the Lincoln
bank, and his family. He does not even
live in New York. He spends most of his
time at splendid country houss he owns
in New Jersey, and after banking hours he
hurries across the North river to
his home and returns late the next
day. He is living life OF
quietness and ease, has position that pavs
him $4,000 year, and with his own in
vestments, an income not far short of
100000 He is good deal better off than
he was when he was in Garfeld's cabinet.
and If the public have forgotten him, he
need not care, for the jingle Of the guineas
Is more musical than the chatter of the
public. FOSTER COATES.