Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-05-11
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL,

Congressman w. L. Scott, OF Erie.
Pa, is worth probably $4,000 900, but
he is one of the least ostentatious mon
in Congress.
Miss f. A. Southworth, assistant
Mycologist at Washington. is said to
be tho first woman to receive an ap.
pointment to a scientific post at Wash.
ington. Her speciality is fungoid
growths.
Hamilton Disston, the Philadel.
phia saw manufacturer, owns mora
land in Florida than any other six men
in the State, and is consequently looked
upon as something OF nabob by the
residents of that sunny cline.
John w. Haynes, OF fayette
County, o., is modern Samson. A
few days ago, in the presence Of large
crowd of spectators. he shouldered and
carried twenty yards .hogshcad Of
bacon which weighed 67Epounds.
AN eccentric wonaR who died
near Winchester, Va, short time ago
always wore heavy top boots, in which
she carried pistols for her protection.
She was noted as fortune teller, and
was a well read woman, having a wide
knowledge of American history.
Congressman Robertson, of Louis
lana, is said to be the greatest bear
hunter in the South He is also an ex-
pert deer-hratcr, and has followed
more than one panther into the jungle.
He keeps pack of hounds and bear
dogs and bis kennels are famous
through the South.
-EmpressEugenie, drawn by Paris
special correspondent on the spot: "A
fragile form, vailed and robcd in black,
pallid face and 5now-white hair, and
the infrm gait of a rheumatic invalid
such sisthe image now presented by
her who was the famous beauty and
the &srM'3. queen of fashion some
thirty-fve years ago.
.@-Hhomas Thompson, who recently
died in Rockport Mass, at the age of
ninety-four, was heoldest inhabitant
of the town. He was a sailor in the
United States navy during the war of
1872, and served the Government for
twenty-five years. While privateers-
man he was captured and served
term in Dartmoor prison.
~ heard Of one Partisan lady, says
Mrs. Frank Leslie, "who dismisscy
every servant in her employ every six
months. Her theory,is that the con-
stant renewal of her. household per-
S0RneI tends to keep her domestics in
good order. She gets the cream, so to
speak, of their services, and just about
the time they settle down into lazy
habits she gets rid OF them"
Countess Tolstoi, it is said, is the
daughter Of Moscow physician, who
married the Count thirty years ago,
when very young She has borne him
thirteen children, and upon her rests
the whole management of the house.
hold. To the Count the possession of
a house superior to that of peasant
is sin, and in his eyes his family
lives in culpable luxury because they
have servants to clean their boots and
a cook to prepare their food,
An employe of Jay Gould recently
remarked: "George Gould and his
father love each other as much as any
father and son | ever saw. and the
same is the case with the other boys.
who consequently are always glad to
go home to their parents. Gould has
impaired to his sons skill enough to
take care of themselves. One of his
boys is good telegraph operator,
another is a good stenographer Tho
old man can go all over this land and
dictate his dispatches to one boy, and
the other one can send them by wire,"