Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-09
PERSONAL AND iMPERSONkL.

-Rubinstein once said that, com
pared with List, all other pianisis
were mere wood-choppers.
The recent unmarried girl IN Phil
adelphia is Miss Helen NJ. Serrill. She
is young, attractive and owns 10000
000.- Philddeiphia Press.
The most modest girl in the world
resides at Syracuse. 1t is said Of her
that when a pupil at Vassar She re-
fused to work on improper fractions.-
N. T. World.
The prodigal son of a Minneapo-
lis man was recently invited to recon
ciliation by Telegram from his father,
saying: "Thc veal spread is ready
when you are.
MIR. Crosby Of Fort Ann, n. Y.
was very mad over his daughters
elopement, but he says it would have
been all right ''if she had not ruined
two hills of potatoes by jumping out
of the window. N T. Times.
George Story, aged eighty-siS years.
of San Francisco, hasn't gray hair
on his head. His hair is luNuriant
growth and is nearly jet black. He
has been resident OF San Francisco
since lS49. San Fraacisc0 Chronicle.
"A reunion of the descendants Of
Philip Jones, who went to Maryland
in 1920 was held the other day at the
homestead near Baltimore. over two
hundred Joneses were present, repre-
senting four generations.-BaitjD10rc
| Sun.
Mark Twain is said TO have met
with disastrous failure in arecent effort
to ride bicycle. The machine threw
| him with the promptness and intelli~
gence OF an unbroken bronco, and tho
spectators thought its performance
even more amusing than the jumping
frog in 'lnnocents Abroad.
-Larkn street, in san Francisco,
says the AitG was named after the
first, last and only Consul of the United
States to the Port Of Monterey. Thomas
| Larkin was that Consul, and had more
to do with our acquisition of California
than Fremont had, although his name
is lost sight of in that connection.
Colonel Ellsworth of the New
York Zouaves, whose tragic death
made such a sensation early in the war,
was native of Mechanicyille, a few
miles south of Saratoga. HIS war
horse has grazed in the beautiful pas
ture adjacent to that busy village until
recently, when he died at the ripe old
equine age OF thirty-three years.-Ir0y
Times
Nelly Barry. the ten-year old girl
in Cambridge, Mass, who saved her
four little brothers from burning to
death, has been sent to the almshouse
A ten-year-old girl who saved two
children from certain death at Lisbon,
Portugal, has been awarded silver
medal by the King, put in college to
be educated, and a sum of money has
already been collected which will be
her marriage portion. Chicago Ir1-
bune.
There are people in Exeter. n. H.
who are incapable of imagining the
avistenoe nf any thing outsidn ~ that
city. An example of their oyerpower-
ING ignorance is shown in the story OF
an old man who had never left the bor
ders of the town and believed thai
Exeter comprised the better part ol
creation. One day he was induced tc
go to Hampton Beach and there, 90
ing ont boating lost his oars and
tloated over to the Isle Of Shoals, When
the hotel proprietor kindly assisted
him to land and inquired whore he
hailed from, he innocently replied: 81
came from America, sir, Supposing
of course that was sufficient to indicate
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