The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-24
PERSONAL.

MISS GESRvIEvE WARD, at last accountS was
I filing successful theatrical engagement At
. Cape Town. Africa
NJ GoUSoo. the composer. Is said 70 be going
blind through overwork and his physician gives
him no hope Of recovery.
Miss sEAEISs Of New Orleans who Ia de-
scribed as a young and charming woman, IS
conductor Of large orchestra.
J. sLoAT FAssErT Of New York is billed for q
speech on "Tammany," at the Lincoln banquet.
70 be given at Columbus, O., Feb. u.
DR. HELEN DRUsKovIrcH. the first woman in
Austria to follow course OF philosophical
studies, has lost her reason from overWork.
KATE FIELD is sure that the most painful
thing about the present crank epidemic is the
pitiful lack Of originality which it manifests.
I Miss CoNsUELo VANDERBILT, the I4-year-old
daughter OF W. K. Vanderbilt is an accomplished
/ lnguist speaking with huency German, French,
Italian and English.
MARSHALL o. RoBERrs, JR., is at school at
| Groton, Mass. and did not accompany Col. and
Mrs Ralph Vivian abroad because his teacher
would not give him a holiday.
QUEEN MARGUERITE of Italy has in her extern
sive collection OF gloves. boots and shoes, worn
at different periods in Italian history, that are
declared to be the sandals worn by the Jyrant
Nero.
THE late Randolph Rogers. the celebrated
| American sculptor. was one Of the sleek and
portly men that Caesar liked TO have about him.
His shoulders were broad and his chest I'm
mense.
THE LATE O. A. WHITE, the song writer, had
no theoretical knowledge Of music. and studi-
ously avoided going 10 the opera and like per-
formances, lest his originality should be i'm
paired.
Miss MARY A. LIvERNoRE is the first and only
woman student in the Grocer Theological Sem
mary. where she expects to take the full three
years course in order to fit herself for mission
airy work.
REV. SAMUEL A. ELIOT. who succeeds Rev.
Brooke Hereford in his Boston pulpit, is one of
the youngest clergymen in the country. He is
but % years Of age and the second son Of Presi-
dent Eliot of Harvard, whom he resemble.
SIGNoR MANFREDI has just made tremend.
GUS reputation for himself at the bar Of Naples
in a criminal case. He spoke for four days,
five or six hours day and at the close received
such an ovation as no barrister in Italy ever
had before.
PROF D. LEOPOLD KRoNECKER Of the Univer-
sity of Berlin, who died in the German capital
a few days ago, was one Of the greatest mathe-
maticians in Germany. He was a wealthy
man, and one of the editors Of the German
Journal for Mathematics.
ONE Of the youngest railroad presidents in
the country is George W. Saul, the executive
head OF the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road
He will not celebrate his 34th birthday until
next October. At 20 he was a clerk In the
traffic department Of the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad at st. Louis.
SIR ERNEST LYON. the young English diplo-
mat who died in Belgrade few days ago, lost
his life as the result of q wager. Being an ex-
cellent rider the Young man made bet with
several friends that ne could reach the station
Ripani, about twelve miles from Belgrade,
sooner on horseback than q train leaving the
city at the same time. Sir Ernest lost the bet
and his life, having been thrown from his
horse