The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-25
PERSONAL.

LADY HESRT SoxERsET will probably return
/ 20 England with her son next month. Her
I proposed trip 70 Japan has been abandoned.
REPRESENTATIVE sParNsER is q very tall man.
with bread shoulders AID strong. wiry frame.
/ Mrs. Springer Is as small as she Is lively and
energetic.
GEORGE wAsHISor6S Is said TO have declared
toward the end OF bis life that be never wrote
but onepoem. That, said be. was the name
| OF my nrst sweetheart, Mary Cary, and she was
poem ia herself
EUoESz FIELD keeps ia his house In Chicago
all the checks which the scribners have sent
him for royalties on his Two books. They ag-
gregate more than So 900. and the genial Eu-
| gene Is preparing TO frame them.
THEhopes Of many Bayarians that death was
about 70 relieve them of a mad king have
proved vain. The latest reports say that King
OTTO Is physically comparatively well. although
his mental condition is as sad and gloomy as
ever.
CONGRESSMAN HOOKER of Mississippi is one of
many members who seem 10 regard a straight
white tie as sort OF badge Of dignity to be
worn 10 daylight and with ady costume, instead
OF being confined. as by correct usage, to even
ing dress.
MISS JANE Golden, who was recently married
to T. Fisher Irwin. the publisher is daughter
OF the late Richard Golden, the anti-corn law
league orator and coworker Of John Bright She
Is a member of the London council and hard
worker in the cause OF reform.
RICHARD PARIS BLAND, the author Of the
silver bill, has played part in politics in five
states and territories. By birth Kentuckian,
ne settled in Missouri. California Utah and
Nevada successfully. He was county treasurer
OF Carson,t Utah, at the time 10 became part OF
Nevada and returned TO Missouri soon after the
war.
THOMAS SMITH. a millionaire land owner of
Detroit, kept dairy most of his life and laid up
wealth. BE was already three score and ten
when he decided TO marry again. His bride,
who is a little over a fourth OF his age, now
lives in a luxurious separate establishment,
while the septuagenarian is a paralytic and
lives at the old dairy
JAMES GoNDIE, a Chicagoan. says he built the
first transatlantic steamer. the Royal William,
While the Savannah, in 1919, was the first YES
sci propelled by steam to cross the ocean, Mr..
Gondie, who is now 49, SAYS she relied mainly
on her sails, as her small deck engine was use
less In rough weather. so that the Royal Will
lam, in 1888 was the actual steam pioneer.
Mrs JOHN A. LOGAN recently sustained an in
jury to her spine by the collapse of a camp chair
In which she was sitting, in her home in Wash
lngton, while parlor reading was In progress.
At first she fancied that she was not seriously
hurt; but she has been obliged to stay in bed for
several days. The accident may not prove to
have serious consequences, but at present some
anxiety is felt by herfriends.
Two MEN in the employ Of Councillor shepl
herd. builder and contractor, OF Cardiff, made
an extraordinary discovery in the Royal hotel
building yard They were engaged In saving
huge block Of stone from the quarries near
Bath. when the saw cut through q bees nest
almost in the center OF the stone. Some of the
bees were crushed to death. but the living ones
came swarning out, frightening the stone
cutters, who beat hasty retreat