Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-02-11
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAl-
Cyrus W. Field once worked fora.
| I. Stewart for the munificent salary Of
500 year. -
| Mr. Gladstone sayF he is in favor
of great modesg and simplicity. but
not gayety, at funerals.
| "A new York policeman fell while
chasing thief and broke his arm. But
he didn't LET little thing like that in
terferc with his business, but kept
| right on and captured his man. !.
An Italian at Mansfield, o., worea
very tight pair Of shoes two days The
result was injuries to his feet hat were
followed by gangrene, SO that he has
had. his toes and other parts 81 both !
feet amputated in order 70 sasc his
life.
Prof. MePhee, Of Boston, has just
returned from u ss;x sponths' visit to
the saadviysIsA iD h1t bralsAt.
with him a cot he could nQt6 he met
ut the court of King Kalakaua. She is
of royal blood, well educated and
wealthy. "
A Portland (Me.) woman has read
the Bible through eighty-fve times;
she is seyenty-live years old and began
when she was seven. She reads fpm
the same book with which she first be-
gan, and has read it at least once
every year. 9!
One of the most successful of
Western business women is in the car
pet trade. She buys, so the dealers
say, with rare discrimination, and has
designed some patterns that are among
lie best selling ''bodys" in the mar
ket. She is a close and shrewd buyer,
too.
"A Connecticut woman has em-
broidered the music ..and words Of
Home, Sweet Home" on a linen
sheet which is on the "spare room"
bed. Her guests have not decided
whether the hostess means to indicate
that they must feel at home, or had
better go home.
jay Gould is reported to have said
that the spectators have made play
thing of his health for years, and that
he could shake Wall street to its found
alton by simply standing on the steps
Of the Stock Exchange building strik-
ing his forehead with his hand and
giving groan or two.
Eight eS-Governors of Maine are
now living; Hannibal Hamlin, 1856
Joshua L., Chamberlain, 1866, 1867
1868, 1869; Sidney Perham, 1870, 1871,
1872: Nelson Dinglcy, Jr., 1873, 1871
Seldom Conner, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1873
Daniel +. Davis, 1879; Harry NJ. Plais
ted, 1880 1881; Frederick Robie, 1882
to 1886.
Miss Emily Vogdes, great--rand.
niece of Lafayette and granddaughter
Of General Anthony Wayne. was mar
ried in New York Monday to Dr. How
ard +. Hansell, of Philadelphia. At
the ceremony the bride wore in her
white satin slippers pair OF diamond
buckles that once clasped the silken
carriers worn by Lafayette,
There have been already, and are
at the present, a few members Of the
princely families of the old world en-
gagged in the pursuits of common life.
4 Bavarian Prince eXccls in surgery;
a Roumanian Queen is teaching school
and writing stories in prose and verse;
Il Brazilian Emperor is known as jour-
nalist and now one Prince Henry, of
Rouss, has not only composed Il SYM
phohy, but conducted its first perform
ance at the hall of the Philharmonic
Society at Hamburg.
A Boston woman of brains has in.
vented new way Of making herself
useful and making money ut the same
time. She studies the newspapers,
posts herself on what is going on in the
world, uses the scissors freely, pastes,
writes and reyises carefully until she
has Il condensed digest of the live topics
offthe day. This she reads to a class
pf wealthy women, who pay her well
for furnishing them with information
concerning what they ought to be able
to talk inte lligently about.