The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-29
Personal.

President MCKINLEY attended lectures
at the Albany Law School before he was
admitted 10 the bar.
DIR. Nansen has already earned enough
money by his dash TO the Northland to
buy back his fathers estate, which passed
away from the family.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir
apparent to the Austro- Hungarian crown,
intends to bui.d magnificent palace in vi
emma, which FACT is taken as an indication
that he contemplates matrimony.
Col. Elijah Sells, an old pioneer, of
Utah, who died the other day at the age
of SO years, was member of the consti-
tutional convention that framed consti-
tuition for Iowa hfty-seven years ago.
Mrs. Emile Jewell aged 65 years. and
Abel Lewis. II, have just been married in
Knott county, Kentucky. This is Mrs
JEWELS fifth matrimonial, venture, and
she is said to be the mother of thirty-one
children the youngest older than her hus-
band.
-Zola, busy as he is supposed to be,
works only three hours day, and the
first hour hardly counts. 1t is usually
between 10 and ! in the day that he
writes. He is growing stout; he looks
tired, and his voice is weak and pitched
high.
According to the Washington CORE
spondents, much Of President McKinleys
personal popularity is really due to the de-
ceptive likeness of his brother, Abner,
who takes huge enjoyment in walking
about the white house grounds, modestly
accepting the homage of the charmed
populace
Mrs Emma Shaw Colcleugh, who has
won fame as an explorer of uninhabited
northern latitudes of this continent, has
started on a long journey toward the
Antarctic. She is to lecture in Chicago
and San Francisco and then sail for Ha-
wall She will then visit New Zealand
and Australia.
The late Johannes Brahms the com
poser left no will; but in letter to his
publisher he states that he makes the
Vienna Society of Friends of Music heir
to his fortune of $40 900, his copyrights
and manuscripts. An attempt is being
made says the New York Sun, to have
this letter admitted to probate as will
A strange blending of art and mammon
is reported from Budapest. The picture
of Louisa Blaha, the Hungarian nightin-
appearance at the Budapest Volks theater,
is to adorn the new 1,O00-gulden note, and
it is thought that this may help to raise
her salary from 1000 guldens a week to
1000 guldens a night.
Mr. fancy. United States consul at
Belfast, Ireland, says that last year the
actual costfo fathe gas to that city. ready
for delivery to consumers, was a trifle
over 1884 cents per LOCO feet, of which,
roughly, rs cents was for labor and 6la
cents for coal, less the residuals, which
were sold. Gas was sold for 66 cents per
1000 feet last year, but the profits were
so satisfactory that the price of gas has
been reduced to 90 cents per 1000 cubic
feet, the cost of coal being $500 per ton.
Rev. F. z. Williams, a Presbyterian
pastor of Baltimore told his congregation
last Sunday that he had no doubt George
Washington swore. Round English oaths
were common in his day. They were close
to hand when a man forgot himself and
was carried away in a torrent of passion
and Washington was capable of this The
true Washington was a man of terrific
temper Passion is power. A man who is
not capable of getting mad is not capable
of getting much of anything else. Self
control means nothing unless a man has
something to control.