Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-09-22
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAl.

There are a dozen men in Mllwau-
kee who carry IA life insurance OF more
than two hundred thousand dollars
each One, Appointment railroad man,
is insured for five hundred thousand
olars
Buffalo Bill says he is genuine
American and during his brief stay IN
England he was in no sense aliec'co
by the Ango-mania craze. 1t taxes
great effort to rub out the Amerlcah-
ism of the true Western man.
The wife Of a Buffalo physician
has Iecently been adiudged insane pc
cane az a strange mania for fans. she
was accustomed, when out shopping
to purchase every tan she saw, regard
| less of cost, ana ascunipiated nag
nfcent collection.
| grandmother Heaton, of virginia
| ILL.,. is doubtless the only person Nv
| inc in the United States born III the
| famous Tower OF Lonuon. She Is
eiphtv-one wears old, and her parents
we're employed in the grim old prison
when she was born.
A Partisan Duchess has bettcrcd
Sarah Bernhardt's tiger club by adopt
ing a real panther as pet ohe keeps
il in a long cage and gives 1t sun ana
air on the veranda where she lcc"o ~
herself, strolingit through the bars Oh
| the cage as she does So
Of the artists at Paris, says cor
respondent: Mcissonier is only ABOUT
four feet high, with long gray beard
Gerome is large man; De'aiiie
| Young and handsome; Cabonel, ocauu-
t ful and old, while Carolus Duran Is
wild and gypsy-looking'
Prof. George f. Holmes, OF the
, University of Virginia, attributes
his excellent health-especially his
a freedom from headaches and stomach
ailments-to the free use OF lhe
l. strongest cayenne pepper he can get
: He eats it with his food and OCCASION
ally takes it in pills.
. An ENGLISH resident of Paris says
- he knows intimately almost all the
literary men in Paris, ana that IN
: ,pitc of the fact that French literature
s. scarcely makes ave, other effort than
r. TO show that the marriage tie is lntol-
fe erabc the authors 'mostly lead mar
If ricd lives of the utmost respectabll-
er ily."
~ -Spr,' n o. 80 curio.ty OF g"nat
a. men, a phiade,Rhan says that he mas
seen Austin Corbin stand in crowded
be thrOurhfare and watch the manipula-
of tions of a street fakir who trying
Ii TO call attention to ''something new IN
tooth POWDER" while at another time
OF he saw Senator Quay gaze fora long
mS time with interest upon llnelnah
tai climbing a telegraph pole
General CW. H. Harrison is said
in | to have taught in Sunday school on
i'll the banks Of the ohio riyt'a aa4.t 4sH4 az aiimme
on there with his class on t
10 before leaving to occupy f'Wh6 "a.
'ys lcntial mansion. As he mms.i:.lL, a,onS.ri,fs
sha "a going to Washington his
. suited him about the bestECOND 81.
,ol preserving his fruit from
hat of the boys His reply WI,
Sabbath school teacher to Il
the them
ler The Indian school at CY-1
ar has the Oldest pupil of any RI " III
u.e institution in the United Stall IL
more than sixty years OF ag
rod Head is his name, and he
i'm Chief of the Crow Nation.
hin bold warrior and an ablerule
sup anxious to learn the ways
With men. and is now receiving in ~ --.t.-----
ght in backsmithng. During the coming
IVed winter he will attend school, lie Is
arS' man in vigorous health and has
more refined face that is often found
mil. in his race He is doce and patient,
elm, | and there is something almost pathetle
way about his longing to learn the Gus
toms of civilization before he dies