The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-09
PERSONA

BISMARCK intends TO publish his memoirs
during his life so that be can defend them if
| they are attacked.
MISS ETHEL MACKENZIE. daughter of Sir
Morell Mackenzie, ia the London correspondent
OF several American newspapers.
Mrs. EMMAP. EWING, the lecturer on cooking,
declares that while improvements have been
made In all other directions, practical cooking
stands where 1t did 100 years ago.
THOMAS A. EDISON is writing his first novel.
A telegraph. Atlantic cable, telephone, phone.
graph, audiphone and hnetograph will figure
| among the accessories, and the denouement co.
ours IN a thunder shower.
Miss LOUISE PAYsoNs, the superintendent of
the Baltimore Training School for Nurses,
studied her profession in London with Florence
Nightingale and was a nurse with the Egyptian
expedition The queen bestowed upon her the
| Royal Red Cross.
LORD SALISBURY, stout and indolent as he
may now seem, has been a hard worker and in
1852. when he was Robert Cecil, visited the Ben
oiBo end ballarat gold fields, where he Joined
the dlggers, lived in tent, did his own washing
and cooking, and dug and gathered nuggets.
Miss NJ. g. McCLELLAND. q noted Virginia
| novelist, is visiting in Baltimore. Miss Nc
Cleland is of middle age, tall and slender and
with IRON gray hair parted over her
forehead She is a genuine southern woman,
ant of voice.
MAI. WILHELM Won MoLTKE and Maj. Helmuth
Won Moltke, the nephews of the dead field mar
shall, have been the objects of much interest
recently In Germany. Maj. Helmuth was
named after his uncle. acted as his personal
adJutant. and lived, together with his family in
the house of the general staff.
CAPT. NJ. B. HUGHES of the Ninth cavalry has
curious relic of the late Gen. Crook. 1t is
10 H. 4
nghter carved out of an old army wagon
torRua with penknife while on the Apache
campaign in Arizona. Crook was universally
known among the Indians as the 'whittling
THERE is strong likelihood that Rev. DIR. John
Hall will resign soon as chancellor of the Uni
versity of the City of New York. DIR. Hall was
CHOSEN chancellor several years ago, after tbs
late Rev. DIR: Howard CROSBY had resigned. Dr.
Hall was selected because the council of the
university wanted his name and influence. His
position IS nominal only. He does not occupy
chair in the university and draws no salary
ALTHOUGH the LATE ex Minister H. S. Sanford
first attracted general attention by throwing up
diplomatic position rather than wear dis
tlnctlve uniform, he was a great stckler for
etiquette. An amusing story is told in illustra-
ton OF this trait. At grand dinner which be
once gave in Washington blue ribbon was
stretched across the table at a certain point TO
separate the people of title and Office from the
common herd below
The young Chinese emperor has celebrated
the completion of his goth year by picking out
new wife, Precedent allows a man of his
ranS seven of these companions and this
acquisition is only the second. His mother ex-
amined the many candidates for the honor, and
selected ten therefrOm, out of which number
the emperor made the final choice This
maiden is the daughter of a mandarin of the
yellow button. and Is said to have the smallest
foot in Pekin.
ONE OF the funniest things Eugene Field, the
Chicago humorist, ever did was the way he ad-
dressed a letter to NJ. P Handy. the newspaper
correspondent, and now director of the WORLDS
falr: He took white envelope and drew on it
the back OF human head. He picked out few
tufts OF hair on top of it. and then from the
cheeks he drew pair of luxuriant whiskers
which he tinted with q red pencil. Then he
wrote under it simply philadelphia, Pa, :" that
was all. The letter went straight to Handy.