The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-31
PERSONAL.

GUY DE- HAUPAssAST, the celebrated French
Rutho-. is not insane. as reported but is suffer
ing from overwork
sPsAKER CRISP is a very close reader Of the
daily newspapers he invariably reads them
the first thing in the morning.
MME- MISSIONER. the widow OF the great
artist, win probably present the contents OF her
late husbands studio TO France
REv. MR- MCNEIL, the Scotch Moody. is said
by the London papers to have been offered
$4,000 year to come to America.
DR.. HELEN DRusKovITcH, the first woman in
Austria TO follow course of philosophical
studies, has lost her reason from overwork.
CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM J. WILSON of West
Virginia has been elected president OF Rich
mond College by the trustees Of that institu-
ton. -l
Rev. NOAH PORTER, expresident of Yale Col
lege. was so years old on Sunday. He succeed
ed DR.. woolsey as president in 1871 and re-
signed in 1886.
TIE wife Of Senator HaWlsy Of Connecticut Is
seriously i'll e. Washington. Mrs. Hawley I'M
derwent q surgical operation which has left her
in an exhausted cendldohgo
E. G. Ross, once senator from Kansas, now
supports himself by editing an insignificant pa
per in New Mexico His vote against Presi-
dent Johnson's impeachment killed him politi-
cally.
JOHN W. MAoKAY. president of the Com
mercal Cable Company. has made his usual
Christmas present to employees of the company
Of half months salary each. This amounts TO
about $4,000.
SISTER GERTRUDE, the young English woman
who went to the Hawaiian Islands TO minister
to the leper settlement at Molokai. but who was
refused a landing there, has been married to
Dr. Lutz Of Honolulu
THE ENGAGEMENT of Miss Thee A. Ruggles
and Fl. II. Kitson, the sculptor, is announced.
Miss Rug1les entered Mr.. Kitson's studio as a
pupil before she went to Paris, and has been
studying with aim since her return.
The only private collection Of humming birds
is owned by Mrs. Caroline Russell, q Oonnccti-
cut woman Mrs. Russell traps the birds, keeps
them In gauze cages without injury, and re-
leased them when the season for migration ap-
proaches.
Dr. s. ". MITCHELL believes that the Ian
guage one speaks exercises an influence over
his manners. For instance. q person may ap-
pear i'll bred when using English but the same
person VIII be gentle and refined in manner
when speaking French.
MISS BELLE NEwPoRT. the young American
pianist who has been studying under Schar-
wenka in Berlin, has recently passed the ex-
IA that capital Out of siKUy-four contestants
Miss Newport ranked first.
AMONG the professors of the University of
Basel, in Switzerland none occupied higher
place than DR.. Ignaz Hoppe, who died few
days ago, Among the various requests made
by the dead man was one of $500, 900 for the in
vestigation Of the nature Of the soul.
MGR. GILLoU. the new archbishop of Oaxaca
has arrived in that city and has had warm
welcome. AS soon as the archbishoprio has
been established he will return &c Rome, that
he may De then appointed nuncio in England,
on the renewal of diplomatic relations between
Great Britain aud Rome
LORD HUGH CECIL, who has just been elected
to fellowship at Hartford College, oxford, is
the youngest son of the English prime minister.
He was educated at University College, and in
1891 Was placed in the first class by the examin-
erH in modern history. He was accounted
brilliant speaker in the union debates.
8. B. ELKINs, the newly appointed Secretary
Of War, has a house in Fifty eighth street,
New York, where he lives with his family in
winter time, and has Offices in the Washington
building at No. Broadway where, as FIRST
vice president of the WestVirginia Central road
he conducts all Of its New York business
MISS ELIZABETH BowEEs, youngest daughter
Of the late Samuel BOwies. was married Christ
mas eve TO T, NJ. Monroe, one of the editors and
proprietors OF Brooklyn Life. The wedding
was quiet one and took place at the home of
the brides brother Samuel Bowles, In Spring
field, on account of the delicate health of Mrs.
Bowles. Sr.