The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-27
PERSONAL

SINCE the production OF "Falstaf'' Verdi has
received more taan 5000 letters and kilograms
of congrAtulatioa.
ThE central figure o. Gen. Lew Wallaces new
novel Is an aitogethes oriefnIf variation of the
Wandering jew"
NRs. JAMES PIERCE Of Wanatah. Ind. owns a
Bible which Is said to have been used at the
marriage Of Poclhontas.
RoBzET LOUIS STEvENsoN has left Sydney. N.
= W. Tor San Francisco whence he will pro-
coed via New YORK to England
Sir EDWIN ARNOLD has bought the English
Illustrated Nd0azine from the Macmillans and
begins its publication with the next number.
SARAH BERNHARDT. who has published two
books, but has never before contributed to stage
literature with ber own pen is now writing a
play.
THE widow OF DR.. Schliemann has decided to
present 70 the United States national museum a
portion Of tho relics uuearthed at Troy by her
late husband.
JAMES HHLHoUsE, JR., recently appointed
mine inspector of Alabama, was, not many
years ago, common laborer in the Shsnan-
uoah Pa mines.
EX-SENATOR STEPHEN W DORSEY, who is in
New York, is said to have recently placed the
stock Of Colorado irrigatirg syndicate in Lon
Jun AOI hoouL So,UUU.UuO
MARCHING on the Plains" is q title OF a pa
per which Mrs. Elizabeth Custer will read in
the Reformed church at Brooklyn on March q
Tor the benefit OF the Infants hospital.
HIsAsH SHIMAMURA, the Japanese consul gen
eral at New York, talks English so well that he
needs no Interpreter All the stationery and
other articles used in the Office are sent over
from Japan.
MISS KATE LEvAS of Berks county, Pennsyl-
vania, girl of ID, drives the daily mail stage
between Princeton and Fleetwood, and can man
age 4-horse team with as much skill as any
man IN the county.
A MAN who built himself cabin In the Ar
buckle mountains, Indian Territory, some years
ago, and since lived hsrmit's life died in his
nut few days ago. According to his own &C
count he was of the British peerage.
LORD WINoHELsEA is about to founda weekly
paper in England, which is to be the organ of
the movement for a union of all classes of agri.
culturists. An earl in the role of an editor,
and editor of this sort OF paper, is something of
novelty across the water
The Kaiser Of Germany was about to dictate
message to stenoRrapher for Caprivi over
telephone last Saturday when a thunderbolt
came into the central Office and Frustrated the
Two persons on duty there 1t is considered a
wonder that the electricity played no pranks
with the imperial telephone
CAPT. JOHN c. DoUeHERTY OF jackson, Miss.
is anxious TO restore to friends OF the owner a
sword taken from . line officer of an Indiana or
Illinois regiment who was killed at the battle of
Malvern Hill. The only mark of Identification
to be found on the well-preserved sword is the
initials H. w. {" scratched on the butt Of the
handle
THE late DR.. Andrew Peabody, according to
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, was looking over
some accumulated papers one day when he
discovered that he was $4,000 richer than he
was the year before. TneFeupon he wrote to
the assessors Of Cambridge, asking those ON
Gals to impose q tax on his property accord
inRly' Yet nobody ever suspected the good
doctor Of insanity,