Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-09-08
PERSONAL AND IMPERSoNAl.

Mr. Edison is worth So,VO,VoV'
and has a fine prospect before him.
Mrs. Langtry has been exceeding
ly thrifty in IA business point oil view
Her property in New York is said 10
be worth $3.50, 600. Then she has pos
sessions in California.
A Port Huron, Mich, woman whd
| is rather restless as to how business
| may be later in the season, has bouSh'
her coffin at quartcr-otf sale ard u
now overseeing the construction o'
her tombstone.
Miss Amanda Perry, daughter
of Captain Brayton Perry, one OF the
patriots who helped throw the tea into
Boston Harbor. and n relative oil the
famous Commodore Perry, is an OBJECT
of charity in Cincinnati.
| Cornelius Collins, of the Govern
ment Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. has been a most faithful and per-
, seyerinc worker He has lost only
FIVE days in twenty-four years, during
, which he has been in the service OF the
, Government.
-Ex-Empress Eugene is said 10
have developed strange idiosyncracles'
: besides being recluse. One Is Ten
p dency to spiritualism and belief that
G she can communicate with her deaa
: Prince Imperial She intends 10 make
= Princess Beatrice, of England, nor
5 heiress.
C 81 have never been in a hurry; L
G have always taken plenty OF exercise;
u have always tried to be cheerful ana
;. have always taken all the sleep that
: / needed" These were the rules OF
>, health followed by the late Rev James
i Freeman Clarke, and he outllved ana
- outworked most Of those who began
J. life with him.
J.. Mr.. Alfred Nobel, the inventor
Q and chief manufacturer of dynamite
,o is emphatically man OF peace ana
o dcpiores the use, of the explosive IN
as destroying human life. If l did not
al regard it as on tho whole great bless
"a ing to humanity" he said recently, Il
or or would close up all my factories and
so never make another ounce OF the stuli'
&c Culture is spreading. The other
!" day Young lady of Tcxarkana Tex
an bought herself half dozen big trunks
Ys9 full of hnery, had them shipped to her
mt address at leading girls college up
'k- North. end sent the bills to her lono
=, father , 10 II . uln of worth an st
~. stance, along with telegram that she
nd | herself had taken the train for school,
ma rs she was bound to have line edu'
80 cation"
Of Another 1904 dollar, and evidently
are the one whose whereabouts so Ions
ate puz2led numismatics, has been heart
from. The coin is in the possession o
ua, a Pawtucket, r. l., woman, who wa
ling civen it by her father in lS2O on he
tied eighteenth birthday. He received tn
ons ros dollar as part payment for services
ms, the war of 1872 and in presenting
we'd IN thc present owner instructed he
al. never TO part with It,
exi, DIR. William Everett, son OF tn
'he famous orator, is possessed of phenon
enal memory He is Master of AZ
IS to ans Academy at Quincy, Mass, an
on never uses Il textbook in the elias
nave room. virgils .Eneid and Horace
rand Odes and Epodes he knows by hear
1T .sd OF On account of his remarkable voice
rose. which combines in startling mann'
nnce the qualities of bass and falsetto' ne
'"en irreverently referred to as Piggy l.
lir,y erett among the boys.