Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-12-04
PERSONAL AID IMPERSONAl

They do say that girl never looks
so pretty to Young man as when she
has iust refused TO be his wife Somer-
vile Journal
Pierre Lorillard has spent one mill
lion three hundred thousand dollars on
Truxedo Park, on the Ramapo, in New
Jersey.-N y. Times.
&C. B. Thayer, son of ex-senator
Thayer, Of Connecticut, Travelled 4,2z4
miles this year on a bicycle. He left
his home in Vernon, Conn, last April.
-Harii1ru Post.
Frederick the Great In his youth
was noted for his stubbornness and
bashfulncss and, we are told, showed
this at his sisters marriage. Instead
of appearing at the ceremony in court
attire he came with the servants, dressed
as one Of their number.
1t is not generally known that
President Lincoln was an inventor.
but the first instalment Of the 'Lincoln
Life" in the Century contains reduced
fac-similcs of the drawings in the
Patent Office, on which was obtained
patent for "a. Lincoln's improved
manner of buoying vessels"
Blind Bill, colored inmate of
Georgia poor-house, has mostremark-
able sense of touch. He can tell any
one whom he has met 10y feeling of his
hand. a man whom he had not met
for ten years shook hands with him the
other day and Bill at once called him
! BY name, though not word mad before
been spoken,-M Y SIN.
jay Gould hgures that if he should
give fifty men five thousand dollars
each to 90 into business for themselves
one-haf would fail and lose all within
five yt~rs. and the other twenty-five
would be mad because ne was able to
make it ten thousand dollars and
didn't do it He argues that men ap-
preciatc then own earnings far more
than a gift.
Mrs. Grant still takes special in
terest in one of her oil-paintings, a
large canvas representing herself,
the General and their children as they
appeared Just after the close Of the
war. at may not be d work of art, "
she SAYS. land, indeed, some of my
friends ask me why let il hang in my
parlor, but to me it is better than a
work Of art. '-C Chicago Journal
A St. Paul editor paid Emma Alb
bott a big compliment. He was sitting
! by the singers husband while she vas
singing in LA Traviata,o in whici,
the heroine is dying of consumption,
!, Emma was doing her best, cough and
all, and the editor. turning to Mr..
Wetherell, said most sympathetically,
: "Your wife seems to have quite a bad
i cold" As soon as Mr. Wctherell re
( covered he explained that the cougt
T.. was part of the performance.
t. Mrs. A. I. Stewards immediat,
4 family was not very large. Size haC
Q three unmarried half-sisters, Msse
:. Anna, Julia and Emma Cinch, and ;
Il nephew and niece, the children o
# Charles p. Clinch, her half-brother
r who, for fifty years before his death
|. was a deputy collector Of New York
: The nephew was Mrs. Stewards favor
It ite. He is Charles j. Clinch, a resi-
|. dent of Paris, where he is Presiden
% of the American Club.-N T. Herdld
T. Two well-known characters anon
the Onondaga Indians have recent
j. died. One was Aunt Cynthia Farrar
h famous for her wealth. She kept
+ bank account at Syracuse, Loaned
Is thousands of dollars, and bought tn
. land of her debtors when they coul
It not repay her. The other celebrit
II was Aunt Dinah, an Onondaga of pur
II blood and believed to be one hundre
Ic and eight years old when she died
Is She was feeble and totally blind, bu
le had good use of her mental faculties
/, -BuGdlo Express.