Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-07-20
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

MIR. Gladstone has had his portrait
painted thirty-ave times.
The late Sir Thomas Dnkin's body
was buried in a paper coffin.
cardinal Newman, now In his
eighty-ninth year, began life as
lawyer.
Alexander II. Stephens during his
life educated one hundred and fity
boys and fifty girls, giving them all
collegiate educations.
Don Francisco Garcia has lived In
Los Angeles sixty-four years, and Is
now enc hundred and eighty years old.
His present wife is thirty-eight and $
his Youngest child is two years old.
Mary Blvins, Virginia colored
woman, who recently died. had but
one talent, that of making excellent
molasses cakes, but she made a fortune
by selling her cakes, and died well oil.
Senator Hearst, of California, Is
said to have at least one mine to every
mining State and Territory in the
country. He bcgrn his mlaing ycnis~
nrcs as duy laborcr In the mouh''
aims
II. r. II. the Princess OF Wales,
according to those who have lately
seen her, is rapidly losing the beauty
for which she has long been cele-
brated, and Time now ungallantly puts
his marks upon the exemplary woman
who is to be the future Queen oil En-
gland.
-Middletown, n. T., has a blind
man, who buys and sells horses with
rood Judgment after carefully feeling
the animals over with his hands. He
can take care OF his horses and hltch
up a team almost as readily as any
man in his employ. He once, unat-
tended, made the trip to New York
City,
Mrs. Cyrus w. Field is said to
ruard as the chefest among her treas
ures a small silver box presented to
her husband by the municipality of
New York and containing the freedom
> of the city. This was given to Mr.
Field after the successful laying OF the
j. Atlantic cable and was the last time
that the honor was bestowed.
Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York,
enjoys an income of $4,000 a day and
! her total yearly expenses are sad 10
- - be less than $1,000. Her fortune at
- present is estimated at S30,O0o,o0o'
:, and it is climbing at the rate OF more
- than million year. Mrs Greer
has proved on sundry occasions tha
:, she is amply able to take care OF her
!. self and this big hunk of money.
-, Worth. the famous French
dressmakcr, is a natiye-born Engilsh
D. man. He is a man OF striking appear
No ance, with rather Scotch type Q
r. face. which is made moro noticeabl
no bv the Scotch cap he usually wears
Y. His parents intended him for aprintel
~ b,t he dislikcd to soil his fingers will
ov printers' ink, and decided for the dry
he goods trade, beginning in London, an
m finally going 20 puris, whara- h" fnnn
favor with the Empress Eugenle' an
consequently with the fashionaoI
world which she led.
Ike If any sea captain has had "A MOI
As uneyentful and successful lille tina
Captain Nathaniel II. Falkcr, OF Bldd
ford Me-. let him say so. Capta
Talscr who the other day sold n
ou last vessel, the schooner Messenge
and retired from business, was BOZ
, sixty-nine years ago When MI
nv wears old he went TO sea, and has &c
md lowed it steadily ever since, Duril
an forty of the sixty years he has been
captain. In these forty years nc II
,dy never lost man, never hau Hi
ON die at sea. never lost spar or sa
Sc. and never called upon the underwrite
RS for n cent OF insurance money,