The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-05
PERSONAL

Miss 2. J. Crop Who's 5eaih took place re-
GENTLY 81 keynsham. Fms. was the shrst wo-
man 20 cross the Atlantic from England in "a
steamer she sailed from Bristol ia the
,tItHL western April p l-cis aud was The only
lady passenger
Queen Victoria has u1w passed the record
OF Henry III. who ruled 58 years and - days.
ana has reigned longer than any English SOW
ttti-u save GcOre III. who ruled from lcio-
ner %. ECO 20 January ~ l53O, period OF ~
years and 81 DAYS.
Maj. Melien, OF st. Louis one OF the chief
promoters Of the Confederate Home at Hig-
ginsville. No. served during the late war on
the sian Of seventeen dinerent confederate
generals ana Is well stocked with personal
"reminiscences OF his experience.
Vincent and John Hale. brothers, separated
in 1874. one going south and the other west.
one entered the union and the other the CON
tederate service. and each thought the other
deau, until Monday, when they met by accl-
dent In Ashland. Kentucky. They have Tor
years been living within half days ride OF
each other without knowing it.
Lizzie Francis. who years ago travelled
with Barnum's circus for many seasons as
'Titania, the Fairy Queen" and always drew
crowds because OF her dimiuutive stature. is
now an inmate OF a Philadelphia almshouse,
and has been since Aug y, 1877. She IS very
cheerful and industrious, and although %
10
gree her beauty and demure ways.
Mai Thomas Knox Holmes who has just
died at the age OF eighty-fve, was no mean
celebrity. The King Of Cyclists title he
well deserved, actually rode from London TO
brighton on his iron steed but a few months
before his death. He had made his record IN
other ways as well. He enjoyed the personal
friendship OF George ". and was chosen for
scat in the first InterVarsity bOatrace
rowed at Henley in 1929.
Renewed EFFORT is being made In Wisconsin
to raise money TO carry through to completion
the project to erect a monument TO the late
Senator Matt II Carpenter one Of the most
brilliant orators and fascinating men the west
has ever sent to the United states Senate.
lie was native OF Vermont, and died in
Washington early in 1881. The intention is to
erect the monument in Milwaukee il enough
money can now be raised.
A story is being told in the House of Com
mons which illustrates Mr.. Gladstones exu-
berant buoyanoy since the crisis Of the home
rule debate. After the prime minister had
voted in the division on clause 8. Mr. Marlori
banks went UP TO him and said: 4 think l
can find pair for you, Mr.. Gladstone, II you
would like to go home now" a pair!' said
Mr.. Gladstone find Inc two pairs, ana l
muy-I feel equal to any two Tories tonight
Here are the true names Of 'some we'll
known ladies' who write under assumed sig
natures; Charles Egbert Craddock' is Miss
Murfree; THE Duchess" is Mrs. Hungerford:
Alan st. Aubyn is Miss Frances Marshall,
of Cambridge. England. Miss NJ. e. Brad
dom is Mrs. MAXWELL Lance Falconer' is
Miss Mary Hawker; Graham r. TOmsOn' is
Mrs. TOmsOn; Julien Gordon is Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, Cruger: Octave Thanet" is Miss
Aida French; John Oliver Hobbies IS Mrs.
Craigie, and John Strange Winter is Mrs.
Arthur Stannard.