The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-05
PERSONAL.

GeorRe Brown, for thirty years train bearer
70 the speaker Of the House Of Commons will
retlre next month. He is y years of age and
N4s appointed to the position in 1864. j he
VOTE Is very hard now, and Mr.. Brown con
lcSoSs 70 having frequently passed through
clothes.
John ID. Rockefeller, the millionaire oil mag
nate, Is one Of the most difficult men to obtain
access TO in New York. He takes a deep in
eSrest IN religion and passes the plate at his
Church every Sunday. His DAYS are spent at
tne standard Oil building at the lower end Of
broadway, butnO crank ever succeeds in get
eihg INTO that structure.
Revenge is expensive. Mrs. Dawnorocy, Of
| Brooklyn, had been badly treated by her
Polish husband and hired three young men at
81 each to thrash him sOUndly. They carried
Out their instructions beyond the letter. Not
only did they whip the brutal husband well
Dut they left him for dead. took $40 out Of his
eiothes and broke the window panes and fur
hlture. While il was going on Mrs. Dawnor-
ocY was doing needleWOrk in her room. When
she learned of the theft she had her warriors
prosecuted.
We'll. we'll, it's funny how they do find out
things, y was Speaker Crisps amused com
ment when shown the dispatch announcing
the purchase Of the Freeport H. street
railway and electric light plant by sSndi-
cate containing a numLer Of congressman.
we nave organized a company said the
2POdhCts 70 guy Lne street railway system IN
treeport. But my interest in 1t, assure you,
Is very small, for my means are not abundant.
Representative Stbley probably has the larg
est amount of stock in the enterprise
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, whom Col.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson has pro
nounced the most cultivated man in Amer
lea, statement Mr.. Howells has Endorsed,
VIII be 81 years Old next November, says the
New York World. He is universally popular
at harvard, and many students not directly
interested In his courses of instruction at
tend has lectures simply to hear him talk
Every year at Christmas time Prof. Nor
ton publishes in a Cambridge paper an inv.
taticn TO all students who have nowhere else
to go TO spend Christmas eve at his house. On
such occasions no host could exceed him in
cordially.
These quiet and uneventful days, while the
House is considering appropriation bills, Mr..
Bland spends good deal of his time in the
senate chamber, says the Washington Post
While the Senate floor is nearly deserted, and
senator's disappear in the restaurant to avoid
listening to a speech that smells of midnlg ht
OIL, ne and Senator Stewart flock by them
selves and cogitate upon the future of silver.
MI bland seems tG WOO the Senate silver
champion with rhythm motion of his Jaws,
as he chews his quid in a state of somuolent
| abstraction, betokening a higher psychic in
tercommunlcation, while Senator Stewart
eomplacently strokes his hoary whiskers and
drinks in the thoughts of his fellow silverite
| with a countenance expressing the quiet
RAPTURE and sweet beatttude Of a bliSSful state
OF mind. Thus time may wax On and the
tariff bill be no nearer to a vote than before.
but neither of the two silver champions
marks the flight of time nor takes note of
what passes around him while the silver
question abSorbS their thoughts.