The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-19
PER SONAL.

Lieut.. Col A R. Savilie OF the English
service claims that the cycle possesses
numerous qualifications as suitatle mount
Mnlch are not fulfilled n the rOdy OF any
living animal, and argues that cyclists
should be included among armed forces
The New York Recorder is authority for the
statement that ever since Napoleon I. died
on the island Of St Helena the death rate has
largely exceeded the birth rate on that island.
! MS has become so well known that II has
hao no lmrnlgration for Years from any
where. In few more generations it will be-
come devoid OF human life"
DR.. WaYland Johnson. pastor of the First
baptlst church Of Easton, Pa, has just heen
elected a member Of the British Society Of
Psychieal Research. The object Of this So
clety IS 10 investigate the phenomena Of oc-
Gnlt operations OF the mind. Its president Is
hlght hon Arthur J. Balfour. and II has
among Its honorary members such men as
GIaostone, John Ruskin and others.
Lord Lonsdale, who is to 90 into partner
snip with Lord Dunraven in his yachting ven
lures. is not such an ornament TO the British
peefage as was Lord Shaftesbury; but as
sport, ne ranks high. He is the patron OF
large NUMBER OF hvings in the Church OF
England, fact that has frequently been used
as an argument az ainst the establishment.
RuI II Is only rair TO LORD Lonsdale 10 say
ma the ergymen appointed BY him to
parishes are in every way worthy. In fact ii
mas peen said that the bishop could not have
SHOWN more vision in choosing men
1t is said. saws Harper's Young People, that
Mrs. Siddons smiled only once in the course
OF her life so far as her friends observed,
and then she laughedaloud. She was Wis
ltlng house where wine vas offered her at
the table She de elined it, adding But l
should IKE little porter" A boy was at
once sent out with the literal direction u
Drlng In little porter He was gone
long tlme-and when he returned was accom-
panied DY little man with straps ana badge
al complete. Here, sir the boy painted.
is the smallest porter 1 could ind And
Mrs. Siddons laughed.
Thefastest talker in the House Of Repre-
sentatives is Mr.. johnson. OF Indiana, says
the Washington Post. When he is fairly
under way the Official stenOgrap pliers feel coils
chlLS chasing each other down their spinal
columns, for his volubility travels at the rate
OF an arctic blizzard Equally hard to report
IS Mr.. Holman, who speaks quite deliberately,
out enunclateS his words so indistinctly that
the closest attention is required to follow his
remarks. At times his voice rises. but even
then the words are not uttered clearly, ana
soon tails back into low indistinct -articu-
latlon. Bourke Cochran is dift1cult to report
Tor TWO reasons. He speaks ra pidly, and he
mas an lnexha0Stible voca bulary to draw on.
Many OF the words he uses to express his
IDEAS are not in popular use, and
ne delights in figures and orna-
mentS of rhetoric. Mr. Reel is one of the
least difficult speakers to report stenograph-
leally not only in the House, but in the world
Messrs. Dlngley ana Burrows possess no ter
tors Tor shorthEnd reporters, but Mr.. Bou-
telle OF Maine 1t times delivers himself like
a Wh1riWlnd, and puts the skill of the report
ers to severe test.