The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
Personal.


Harriet Beecher stoves twin daughters
who have turned forty. are both unmarried.
In a lecture 40 Chautauqua James =. Ed
wards said that ia time Niagara Falls viii
entirely disappear
Dr. Laking. knighted the other day by the
queen. IS the Official surgeon spothecary" 20
her majesty and the regular attendant on the
wales family.
Ex-Governor Ogleshy, Of Illinois said the
other day that he IS more infested IN potatoes
than in politics, and he believes there S more
pront ia them.
Mrs. Hannah Stephenson, Of Brookaeld
Mass, is 100 years old and is men
tally bright She has used tobacco and snun
Tor the past eighty one years.
President Clevelands fishing rod, intended
for salt water sport, is made Of selected green
heart. the mountings are all Of silver, and the
three tips arc set with agate eyes.
The 7Oyear-old Matabele IS African) King
La 8engqla who is reported to have risen
against the whites, weighs 200 pounds has
hundred wives and more than 80 sons.
Florence Nightingale, who recently cele-
brated her 73d birthday. is a confirmed lnva-
lid. but pursues work for the benefit Of her
fellow creatures with her Old-time zeal, never
thelcss
Joseph H. Cholate, of New York the silver
tonged orator and defender Of the heather
Chince, is an epicure and delights in choice
VlapdS as much as he does in choice language,
He has made no record as a big eater, how
ever, and may he called a diettante gourmet
with q refined appetite.
DR.. Hahkine has inoculated over 200 per
sons at Simla for cholera. including many
medical men, high officials and ladies' Sew
eral native Indian states have taken up his
to- nf tHNr hot feHr AfrFg
Delhi and Lucknow. In one British regiment
over 4O0 men have been noculated.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says that af-
ter the publication Of her book, The Gates
Aiar,' quarter Of "a century ago. she re
ceived nearly 1000 letters They came from
all over the world and were mainly from per
sons In amlctlon. strangers TO her. Some
wrote ineFattude; very many in the longing
for sympathy and consolation.
The late Lord Calthorre was one of the
last men in London to drive cabriolet, the
favOrite dandy vehicle of the las generation.
D'Orsay used to drive one his hands in prim-
rOse-cOlOred gloves and his shirt cuffs turned
back over his coat sleeves. Lord CalthOrpe
was true type of the tory aristOCrat. but
could be most courteous and agreea bic when
ne felt so disposed, which was not often, aC-
cording to his acquaintanccs
Walter Besant continues to rasp the feel
ings OF New Workers with his cheerful com
ments upon the get-there people Of Chicago.
Il was struck, says ne, with their alertneSS
and continuous activity. They don seem to
care a d-n whether they kill themselves in
their feverish endeayOr to accomplish some
thing or not Something is TO be done. Well,
let's do it. 1t viii cost million. II ere it is.
That the way they do itat Chicago
San Francisco papers tell with appreciation
that Vice President Stevenson pays his own
hotel bills wherever he goes. and that, being
a good business man, be is looking carefully
after the expenses of his Pacific coast
tour. When he reached Los Angeles his sec
rotary sent kilograms to five of the hotels of
san Francisco asking their rates per day, and
when he arrived the secretary registered him
as The Vice President. Bloomington, Ill.
Mrs. Stevenson's name appearing on the next
line.