The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-26
PERSONAL.


/ Nine Madeleine LcmaIre who is perhaps
. the best known water coi0rist ia Europe. is
. said 10 make "a larger income than any other
/ female artist iu the world
/ John Hudson Finley. who rs not yet 30 years
I Of age, has been inauguratcd president ot the
] Knox College at Gulesuurg, H. he is the
I youngest person In that position IN the
world
/ Miss Phoebe j. Woodmau. Of Oak Knoll,
/ Danyers. who is about 10 marry Boston
artist. Mr.. Cafega. is a niece Of the poet Whit
tier; and is said 20 be the original OF his "Red
| Riding Hood. "
The eX-Empress Eugene recently climbed
two flights Of stairs in a Paris apartment
/ house in order 10 call upon Victor Drury, who
was one OF NAPOLEON III. Ministers and de-
voted friend Of the family The aged acade-
mlclan Is confined to bed by illness.
Mrs. Lizzie II. Perkins Of Bath Me,
didn't want lawyers to have anything to do
with making her will so she drew one to suit
| herself. Up to date 26 lawyers have had a
shy al IT, and the Supreme court OF that state
is about to take a wrestlc whit. a woman 5
will is proverbially probematical.
DR.. Freymuth, the assistant of DR.. Koch in
the latters laboratory at Danzig, went to
dinner the other day without washing his
| hands he had been handling cholera baclli
all the morning and during the meal he swal
lowed few. He was at once taken violently
Ill. exhibiting all the symptoms Of Aslatlc
cholera, and his life was saved with great
difficulty.
Wiggins-WigGins the weather prophet
Virgins Of Canada, rises to announce that the
big floods in the United states early this year
were due to the telegraph wires, which col
lected all the electric energy that should nave
been distributed over the earth. For this
reason, he says we were flooded out while
Europe is burned up with drought. He says
the wires should be put under ground,
Judge Moberly, of Greene county, Alabama
having been appointed to suthin in Washing
ton, has hefted the place and given to his en-
dorser, Congressman Bankhead, the following
fetching and as to the third unanswerable
reasons I'd l have lived to be more than
80 years old and have never been bOssed by
anybody, and can't begin that now. ~ l am
making more than 81 900 at home and like to
live there 80 l have been elected president
OF the Greene County Fishing Club, and it is
time TO assume the duties OF my office"
The Queen has appointed Sir Walter Par
raft, Mus. Doc, to be Master of the Musick
and conductor of Her Majesty's private band,
in the place of Sir William CUsinS, who re-
Gently resigned. Sir Walter Parratt, who
was knighted about twelve months ago. has
been organiSt Of st. Georges Chapel Wind
sor during the past eleven years, having
been appointed TO that post on the rcsigna-
ton of sir George EIVev. Ia future the Mas
ter of the Musick' Is not to conduct, as mat
ter of course, at the two State concerts
which are now given every summer at Buck
ingham Palace.
NJ Ferdinand Brunetierre, who has been
lected member of the French Academy by
twenty-five votes against four given to NJ.
Emile lola, was born in IOulOn, in the south
east of France, in 1919. He was appointed in
lSS6 chief lecturer or professor of French an
guage and literature at the Superior Normal
school OF Paris. a position which he still Oc
cupies concurrently with that OF lecturer at
the Sorbonne. M BrunetierTe has published
several books of literary criticisms and of
research; Critical studies on the history of
French literature Pascal Madame de Sc
Vtgne, Moliere, DiderOt French literature
in the Middle Ages, and The Naturalist
Novel; which received the prize OF the
lar contributor to the .'ISevue des Deny
MOndes,H in which he has published for
many years noteworthy articles OF literary
criticism.