The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-25
Personal

Gounod has decidca 90 lo 20 Brussels Ia the
fan % superintend in por-au the rchearsals
ot 'Saph0. his new opera which D. to ne pro
once1 early Ia the operate season 90 the BEL
sian cat ltai Ills trip Win nr notable ior the
reason mat the aged composer IS now Ia Zee
hic health and rarely Leaves Paris.
John T. Blair. the railroad magnate and
millionaire Of BlairstoWu n j.. celebrated
his 9ist birthday last Tuesday and
presented the town with a steel bridge across
lnt meadow 20 the railroad station, 10 take
tur pace or an Old wooden structure, II is
$50 feet long and cost 5000
Ebenezer Burgess Ball OF Washington. who
claims 10 be the nearest living relative OF
George Washington and who looks like
the Iaiter's portrajf has mad his
Claims IN that respect confirmed by the
sons Of the American Revolution. He keeps
u Utig cigar store IN she rOtunda OF the pen
sion ofiicc
No other statement of the American girls
progress towards emancipation. says the
Baltimore American, has contained so much
truth IN so few words as Miss Eunice Vance's
dlctum that in England women are abused;
In America the women abuse the men In
no spirit OF mlSOgyny and with the most def
erent consideration for the sex, we may say
tual eyesight.
The Infanta ERalie stayed about three
weeks ia London before she departed for the
watering place Royat. and lived in the
Strictest retirement in a furnished house in
Aesthourne Terrace. After cure of about
three weeks at ROyat the iutdnta Will return
TO England in semi-state, to visit the queen
ana several members of the Orleans family.
Meanwhile her little sons are staying in Eng
llnd with their goyeruess, the widow of an
English Oficer.
Miss Charlotte Mary Yonge, the novelist
recently passed her 10th birthday. She has
given largely Of the income derived from her
more than thirty novels to church objects;
thus &2,OJJ, the profits Of her Daisy Chain
went 10 the building Of a missionary church in
Auckland. New Zealand, and great apart Of
the proceeds of The Heir Of Redclyne' was
devoted to the fitting out of the missionary
schooner southern Cross for the use of the
late Bishop Selwyn.
Though Victor Hugo has been dead eight
years every succeeding publishing season has
seen the production OF a fresh volume of
poems by the master so that the matter has
now become joke in literary circles in Paris.
The explanation given of this remarkable
post -mortem fecundity is that Hugo stored
away in cupboard many of the almost in
Vulnerable poems he used to lmprOvise while
out walking at Guernsey. ana his heirs, dis
covering this treasure rOve, have drawn on
1t IN way to yield good financial returns.
John G. Whittier used to be fond as is well
known, Of going to the summer resorts in
New England made famous in his verse, but
says the New York Times, he was not fond of
meeting strangers who thought it incumbent
upon them to show him at wearisome length
their familiarity with his lines. From such
he always sought shyly to withdraw himself
sometimes even being driven to seek refuge
IN his hotel bedroom to escape them, but he
never dld II in way that caused moments
suspicion in their minds that he had not de-
rived an untold amount of pleasure from their
self sought Introduction to him.