The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10
Personal


Abraham Lincoln i- SAID to have q living
counterpart. "a, Tar as personal appearance is
concerned. in an alderman % the little city Of
Brewer. Me. Samuel b.. stone, who Is by
trade not exactly q rail splitter, he being a
carpenter. tie wears his whiskers 10 much
lAe same STYLE a. did President LinGoln, ana
mas inc same OF nearly the same
characteristics OF face ard figure.
When Lord Randolph Churchill went on his
journey TO south Africa his library was lin
tied TO the Bible and AloHere. In the fuller
leisure OF his retirement 80 ktssingen, SAYS
the London Daily News he has found himself
~ "a position 10 extend his range OF reading
A Well-knuwn bookseller has received an
order from him for "three dozen French nov
els The selection OF the works IS left 70 the
bookseller
Samuel Cabot. of Boston is in distress. He
undertook to call together a convention Of
scientists interested in aerial navigation TO
discuss That question. All the cranks In the
country have heard OF the proposition appar-
entity and Mr.. Cabot is deluged with letters
lncIosinR plans Of flying machines with prop
osllons 70 sell him an interest IN the inven-
tlonS at almost any price. The convention
has been abandoned.
Miss Braddon. rising in her wrath and then
sitting down to write. addresses some warm
remarks to her critics apropos Of furniture in
fiction. She declares that those fault finders
VINO OBJECT to the description Of buhl caol-
nets. Dresden china and Administer carpets
Ia novels don t know what they are talking
about. Novel readers. she says. dOte on such
pits OF description. and she quotes Homer,
richardson. Baizac and Jane austen in sup
port OF her contention.
Mr.. John Haigh Of Somerviue, Mass, has
collected what his friends claim 10 be one OF
the largest and most complete libraries Of
Masonic books, pamphlets charts diplomas.
etc. IN this country One division contains
about loo bound volumes Of sermons on Ma
SOnTy. both American and English. running
from no TO the present time. There are
also copies of all important documents, for
and against Masonry, printed during the
antI-Masonic period, from 1926 to 1870.
Attorney General Pillsbury, OF Massachu-
sets who is mentioned in connection with
the republican nomination for governor,
made hazing Questionable when he was at
Harvard in 1870. The sophOmores attempted
to discipline him. and got their heads broken
for their pains. The college authorities, with
their usual aStuteneSS suspended PillSbury
Observation-Disclosures and he left the university
for good. 1t 1891 the honorary degree Of A. NJ.
was given TO him by the same men who had
suspended him twenty-one years before.
Wicked correspondents claim that the 1eal-
ousy between Bourke Cochran and John R.
Fellows is one OF the most amusing things in
Washington this hot weather Fellows is a
very eloquent speaker Mr.. Cochran is re-
He IS uneven, and l doubt whether he has
good staying powers. ' On the other hand
Mr. Fellows is credited with: "Oh, yes Cock
ran can We wonderfully eloquent, but he is
Just a little unbalanced He ought to improve
his method Whenever the two are to
gether, however they are as afectionate as
two kittens, and laugh at each others jokes
with an eiort that is pathetic.