The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-29
PERSONAL.


The tomb Of Mohammed is covered with
diamonds, sapphires and rubies valued at
slOOOO.OO0.
An Illinois man named Storms has named
his three sons Hale Storms. Rayne Storms
and Snow Storms.
Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed, after having
discontinued cigar smoking for four years,
has resumed the habit
The mother Of ex-Goy. Castor, OF Massa-
chusetts, who died few days since. was
Keziah Arnold, OF pilgrim ancestry, and his
Iather was a descendant Of Jean CASTOR, a
Huguenot emigrant.
Sarah Hosmer, a worker IN an English
factory supported a student in the HISTORIAN
! seminary, and out Of her earnings sent t1ve
native preachers for five years to preach the
gospel In the far east,
Michael Duffy, the New York ex-aIderman
OF Doodle fame has been dismissed from the
bankruptcy court. he swore that his total
him aggregated $500 GOO ~ .sa
It is said that the death OF Cardinal L.au-
renzi has affected the pope more than any
death In the hierarchy for many years. He
mas peen associated with Leo XII through
the whole OF his episcopacy
The Rev. F. B. Meyer, Of London, is author
lty Tor the statement that he knows gentle
man OF that city whose income is $1,000 per
annum ana who lives on 81 .00J and gives the
sions.
Joseph Muir, of Paramount. Nd, recently
shipped basket of terrapin to Ambassador
Bayard in London. Mr. Bayard is very skill
Iul In preparing this dehcacy. and he will
DOUBTLESS delight,his English guests with an
appetizing dish.
Marion Booth Douglas. niece Of the late
Edwin Booth, is fighting metropolitan
printing company IN the courts. They have
Dill against her for over $500 and seek to
attach the $4,000 legacy left her by the
famous tragedian.
Mr.. r. c, Pate, of st. Louis, who went to
the City Of Mexico to introduce horse racing,
has given up his concession after losing a
eonsldera0le sum OF money and satisfying
himself that the most exciting of horse races
Is too tame sport for the Mexicans.
Samory, the great Mohammedan chief of
Africa is about che last semi-savage of the
dark country to yield to civilization and the
force OF arms. The French have been grad
ually driving him INTO closer quarters, and
now the British are conducting raids against
ms warriors, Samory Is the greatest king in
the world.
Capt. Benjamin Thompson, of Kennebunk-
port, Me-, is a lively specimen of the Down
East skipI He celebrated his Tooth birth
day short time ago, and in a wrestling
match proved too much for his eldest son, II
years old, who lives with him. With the ex-
ceptlon OF being extremely deaf the captain
Is said to possess all his faculties.
Adolph Marcuse, a European traveller, de-
scribes in vivid way the savagery which yet
prevails in some portions OF the Hawaiian
ISLANDS. In visit to the crater of Kilauea
ne was accompanied by several natives.
When night came they threw into the crater
as offerings sacred berries and live fowls. at
the same time singing a monotonous chant
to Pele, the fire goddess.
Prof. Henry Hertz, the great German phys
icist, who recently died at Benn, had not COM
pleted his 97th year. His special field Of in
VeStlgatl0n was electrical phenomena. His
principal discovery was the fact that electro
dynamic effects are sent either as waves or
as electric waves through space with a rapid
lty OF 100000 ktlometers per second-nearly
equal to the rapidity Of light.
1t is officially announced from Mexico that
Senior don Agustin Maldonado Of Y Carvajal,
Marquis de Castellanos, his two brothers and
MS sister, all of whom live In Madrid have
been recognized by the Mexican government
as the descendants Of the Aztec KING Monte
yuma. The same government will pay them
a pension, and has given orders that effect to
senior hlmantour. its minister of finance.
Sir Henry Verney, Miss Florence Nightin-
gales brother -in-law, though he is 92 years
old, attended a meet of the hounds in his
neighborhOod, the other day, on horseback
Last year, when the ice permitted he en-
Joyed the skating, Sir Harry attends bazars
and public meetings with regularity. His
slster1n-law IS generally with him, and they
are as CHEEKY and lively couple as one could