Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-05-31
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

1t Is cur.ou coincidence that the
representative sons of bismarck and
Gladstone should bear the name Her
bert"
When T. T. Barnum was introduced
to Sir Arthur Sullivan he remarked: II
am glad to have the opportunity of meet
ing you. You are celebrated. am no.
torious."
Ben Butler is reported to be worth
S5,000,000. lie has law Offices in several
cities and a practice worth 100000
year. Lowell is the place he calls his
home, and his residence there is .
palace.
The largest landowner in the world
Is said to be Mrs. Emma +. Forsyth,
the daughter of former American Con-
sui at Samoa. She has plantation Of
one hundred and fifty thousand acres or
an island near New Guinea, and en-
ploys over five hundred people on it.
1t was popularity Of the late Sam
uel J. Randall that he left the,handling
of his own financial matters to his wife.
1t was a common occurrence for those
who were frequently at his home to
hear him call to his.young son sammy
to ask "mothor'' for so conts or 81 where
with to buy postage stamps.
This is how General Sherman ex-
presses himself about the telephone:
It's one of the biggest Of modern nui-
sances. I've tried the telephone ten
thousand times and never knew it to
work right. II want to send a mes
sage ! believe in putting man on a
horse and letting him deliver it.
The secret of long LIE is said, by
George Bancroft, to be nothing more
than the power, either natural or ac-
quired, of controlling the temper. III
you will never get angry" he says, "you
will live to be ninety The venerable
historian has probably applied his own
theory with good practical results, as he
has already reached his nnetieth year.
Although General John c. Fremont
is eighty years old he has always been
an active business man. He kept an
Office in an old-fashioned building on
lower Broadway. New York, where he
gave his attention to mining schemes
and other speculative enterprises. The
Generals mind is clear, and he takes as
keen an interest in public events as he
did when in the prime Of life.
-Chauncey NJ. Depcw is quoted as
making the interesting statement that
about hundred men whom he can re-
call as having been famous in Wall
street during the war for fortunes made
suddenly in speculative deals, and who
have since dropped out of sight, are now
life insurance agents. He said he at
tended an insurance banquet recently
and seventy-five per cent. Of the agents
present had formerly been famous as
successful Wall street traders.
There are now living in Washington
married couple, Paul and Albina He'll
muth, who we're born at Baden, Ger
many, February /, 1s47, within four
miles ofeach other. Even through their
childhood, playing in the streets Of the
same town, they were strangers to each
other. In the course of events they
came across the ocean to the land of
promise, and at different times and by
different paths they drifted to Washing
ton, where they met, ard loved and
welded. Upon comparing notes to take
out their marriage license they dis
covered, to their mutual surprise and
! qualification, that they were not only
natives of the same place but rejoiced in
exactly the same ares TO n day.