The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-12
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
What the Sewspapers Say Concerning
Mon apd Women of Note.

Andrew Milton, OF Medina, MICH, ~
an all day whittier and is getting rich at
it. lie has just completed his 1S,400th
ak handle.
DR.. Echencrlin, Of Berlin, has inocu-
lated dogs with the newly discovered
bacillus of cancer. So far no cancer
symptoms have been developed.
EIizajath Stuart Phelps is suffering
from an affection Of the eyes and ia
obliged to do her literary work by the aid
Of an a-1anuensis.
Samuel Spencer, who has been made
president # the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at a saiary of $4,000 a year, was a
rodnan earning a scant salary only few
years ago. lie is not yet 40 years old.
The Chinese government has just ap-
pointed Henry Merrill chief commits
sioner Of customs at Corea at a salary Of
$4,000. :Icnry is a Vermont boy, and
was lorn and raised at Dummerston.
Tic Baroness Burdett- Coutts and other
philanthropic persons in London arc
about to establish, it is said. q scheme to
provide workshops furnished with several
machines where poor scamstresses can
20 and lave the use of the machines at
very low charge.
Mrs. Ei:zabcth Thompson, the philan-
throP.st. never goes to the theatre. and
has read but two nOvels-''Jane Eyre''
and the "Gcorlet Letter" Her tastes
are pcrfc.lIr simple. She has a great
ll,irs for bread, milk and apples. 1t is
doubtful if society has ever heard of her.
Il, =, 1. A.
freedom of the floor Of the house, a right
which even the presidents wife does not
have.
Mrs. Langtry has an absolute horror of
flesh which IS encroaching upon her so
rapidly that it has destroyed the long
lines Of her once famous figure, an
threatens her with the most English re
suits. She has always exercised a great
deal, but her exercise is now really vio-
lent, and size has adopted modified sys-
tenn Of bantirg. 1t is all of little avail,
however, IS she positively refuses to give
up champagne, the most insidious enemy
of femal" lpvelines3.
Camnlaini lost lis voice through wear
ing low ueckcl shirts in the bitter New
York weather. six or seven winters ago.
The story "ocs that the great tenor was
= Ilac'se:,:i.h il his boyhood. and became
so hardened to violent contrasts of cold
and / 1t that IL thought nothing could
aifcet t." ralsorb strength of his physique.
But d Kew York blast struck him in his
vital spot one day and he was compelled
to give ~ the stage altogether. Unex-
pec;edly his voice came back to him, but
in such delicate form that he is now
Obliged TO nurse it ike an exotic.
Senator In"alls. the dignified president
of the United States senate, stood on a
cur5stone i'll Washington a day or two
ago as a horse car rushed by at a rapid
rate For moment Ingaxs' chance Of
boarding. that car seemed as slim as he is
himself. Suldenly, however. the Kansas
statesman placed two fingers in his
mouth, blow Il sharp blast and piercing
whistle startled the calm winter atmos-
pherc. Lchoing along the quiet street,
the shri.l sound overlook the hurrying
car. and. as if by magic, the conveyance
stopped. ingalls, says he learned to
whistle when boy.
Senator Evarts house in Washington
used to be full of young girls. His
daughters have married off, however, and
only Miss Mary Evalts remains at home.
Miss Evarts is anxious to retire from
active social life, rs she finds the round
of gayeties at the capital something of a
bore. but her father will not permit her
to go into seclusion. He takes great in
terest in her toilets and complains that
she does not purchase enough evening
dresses to please him. 1t is so seldom
that the father of young woman in So
ciety makes such complaint, that Sem
ator Evarts stands almost alone in this
matter.
Word comes from Florence OF the
death Of Signora Marlanna BarbieriNini,
who was famous thirty or forty years
ago as an operatic singer, and was as re-
markablc for exceptional uCliness as for
her artistic talent and splendid voice. In
the height OF her fame she married Count
Mini and retired from the stage. After
his Geath she married well known
Vienna musician named Hackensollner.
who suddenly disappeared. leaving her
in extremely straitaned circumstances.
and she WAS forgotten except by few
faithful friends She used herself to re-
late with Il certain piquaut Gusto that
once when playing Norma" in the
famous duet where the two children are
presented to the heroine by Adalgisa, as
she bent to embrace them, the little girl
who peroonated one Of the children was
so terrified by her ugliness that she
sprang from the stage into the wings, ex-
claiming, Mother. mother, the witch is
there" to the intense amusement of the
audience.
The combined wealth of this remark
able family (the Astors) probably stands
without parallel in the world. 1t has
been the steady endeavor of the living
members of the family to underestimate
their possessions in order that they might
not arouse the too bitter jealousy of that
class Of the population which looks inim-
ically at boarded wealth. For this reason
John Jacob Astor has never given
any authority for statements of his
wealth that put the figures beyond $780,
100000, and ordinarily this sum is looked
upon as the limit of his possessions;
nevertheless it is a conservative estimate,
because the family is always buying new
real estate, as the income in the shape of
rents brings about an accumulation of
actual cash much greater than they can
conveniently dispose Of. But taking
800, 100000 as basis and adding to it
the fortune Of his brother William, which
is more than half as great, and the for
tunes possessed by the husbands of the
married daughters of the family, there
would be q total that could not TALL short
of $3.50 COO OOO