The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-20
PERSONAL.

WHEN Walt Whitman was asked to name
| three or four Americans of absolute greatness
he answered by saying what would you say
70 Washington, Lincoln, Grant and sEmersony''
| MELVILLE b. ANDERSON, for four years past
professor OF English literature in the Iowa State
University, has accepted an associate profess
orship of similar character in the Stanford Uni
versity OF California
| 'oLD HUTcH'' is called so to distinguish him
from the Young Hutch his eldest son, Charles
Hutchinson, who has been president of the Chi
cago Board of Trade and OF the Young Mems
Christian Association.
The ELDEST DAUGHTER OF Bjornson, the fla
| nous Norwegian writer has recently appeared
at concert at Paris with great credit to herself
and her teacher, Mime. Marches. Her name is
Froken Bergliot Biornson.
Rev. GEORGE G. LoRIMER was welcomed back
to fremont Temple pulpit, Boston, Sunday
morning with immense enthusiasm. He wss
pastor OF this society from 1873 to 1879 when he
accepted a call to Chicago, and now returns TO
MS old congregation.
The ex Emperor of Brazil has been lingering
at Monte Carlo, and is said to be regular at
tendant upon the magnificent concerts given
tnere Milan OF Servia Is expected there shortly
70 spend his new million which the regents Of
Servla have given him.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, having got Into CORE
spondence with Lady Florence Dixie on the
subject of woman's suffrage, remarks diplo-
matlcally that it is a large question and that if
ne ever attempts to discuss it he will approach
the subject in a serious and considerate spirit.
MISS EDITH BOYD, who is going to marry Gus
taVe Coquelin. brother of the two actors, is the
daughter of the late Mrs Boyd, who lived many
years In Paris and who was the sister of Lord
Angesey's second wife, and also of Capt. Arthur
boyd, who has just retired from the Second
Life Guards
ARcHDUKE ALBRIGHT, the hero of Montara,
NoVara and Custozza, and field marshal and
inspector general of the Austro- Hungarian
forces is going to celebrate the twenty fifth
anniversary of his promotion to the Grand
Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order-a
very rare distinction.
NATHANIEL HAwrHoRNEs house in Salem,
Mass. is for sale, and number of gentlemen
interested in the preservation of the birthplace
OF the famous author would be glad to purchase
IL, only that the unselfsh owner thinks that he
ought to have $40, 900 or about three times its
ordinary value passed over to him as his share
OF the transaction.
SENATOR PLATT of Connecticut is one Of the
most earnest defenders of the American patent
law in the United States Senate, He delivered
what is conceded to be the most able speech in
the history of the United States patent office
on the floor of the Senate ever made in congress-
He is also a sincere friend of women inventors
as well as industrial women.
VIDAL, the blind sculptor, is one of the won.
ders of the French capital. He has been blind
since his 21st year. To be sculptor it is gen
orally supposed that one must have tine
mechanics eye and the artists taste and
perspcuity. The latter faculties Vidal has to
an exceptional degree-even more acute, he
believes, than if the former were not lost to
him forever.
MRS. NANCY M. JOHNSON is the inventor of the
first ice cream refrigerator in this country. Be-
fore her invention ice cream was made by
She devised the crank and got out a patent for
her invention in the year 1S43. She afterward
sold the right of her patent for $1,000. She
lived in Washington all her life and died in 1890
at the ripe old age of vs. years.