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


MRs KATE eHUTk OF Boston is claimed to be
the first travelling saleswounan for q shoe house.
QUEEN LILISoKALGuI the new monarch Of
HAWAII, is said to contemplate home rule
policy.
Rev. DR.. H NJ Jackson. assistant bishop of
Alabama, is in Richmond, the guest Of James
B. Pace. -rrrrt -Ir
LIEUT.. SCHwATKA has q collection Of over
1900 obituaries Of himself written after his late
mishap in Iowa.
EDMUND CLAREScE STEDHAS, the banker poet
makes his simmer home in a quaint stone
house on New Castle Island. in Piscataqua
Bay.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Grant Monument
Association of New York took place on Thurs
day but there was no quorum. The fund
stands at Sl45.000.
Mr.. GLADSTONE does not smoke, and dislikes
tobacco in every form. He has also profound
contempt for smart attire, and deep-rooted
dislike for new clothes.
MEssRs. MORRILL,, Edmunds. Sherman and
Ransom are the only members Of the Senate
still in service who were in the chamber when
Mr.. ingalls, hrst went there.
WILLIAM NORRIS, the English poet and social
ist, is so busy on other pursuits that he writes
the poetry which has given him most fame
only on Saturdays and Sundays.
Mrs WILLIAM W ADORE sToR is as graceful
and dignihed as she is elegant in manner and
irreproachable in taste. AS q dresser she has
few equals and in cheerful good nature none.
THE MIkADo OF JAPAN Is to visit wiesbaden
next summer. partly for the waters and partly
for the spectacle of innocent merriment. :"
Six villas have been engaged for the emperor
and his suite, which will comprise at least
sixty persons. No mikado has ever before left
his own dOminions.
PROF. CHARLES WALDsrEIS, the American
archaologist, has withdrawn from the compe-
tition for the honor of making the excavations
on the site OF the ancient city of Delphi He
SAYS that he will leaye the French to do the
work in their own manner, as Americans have
been unfairly treated.
SIR AUGUSTUS PAGET is an oldtime diplomat.
but he has a new-fasbioned salary of $40, 900
year as British minister to Austria. This may
seem liberal and open-handed sort of re-
muneration for the arduous duties of wearing
court dress on state occasions and being on
good terms with the imperial family, but Lord
falmerston held to the opinion that salary of
TINS ortwould not pay tor the dinners. balls
and parties which an ambassador had to give.
GEN THOMAS DRAYToN of South Carolina died
two days after Gen. sherman. The two men
were warm personal friends aud Gen. Drayton
had received from Gen. Sherman just before
the latter was taken sick a letter in which the
great soldier expressed the anticipation Of
much pleasure in meeting Gen, Drayton at
west point next year at the commencement ex-
ercises. Drayton was an old West Pointer and
the last surviving classmate Of jefferson Davis.
ME1ssoNIER's MEANNEss was only equaled by
his genius with the brush. He was imperious,
domineering and ugly with all who came in con-
tact with him. HIS treatment of Baron AL
phonse de Rothschild is given as an illustration
of his CHI iracter The painter conflded to the
banker that Mt
given a check for $4,000 Later Messonier
asked the baron if he could pay the debt by a
picture, and the offer was accepted. short
time after this Rothschild was a candidate for
membership to an institute of which the painter
was member, and the latter at once made a
bitter and open fight against the admission of
the banker and defeated his candidaCuFe. At
the same time the debt Of goo was still un-
paid.