Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-01-25
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL


1t is said that Dom Pedro, Of Bra
,il. foresaw the establishment OF a re-
public and was willing Sbdicator
General Reuben Davis, a cousin OF
Jefferson Davis, says the latter was
worth nearly two hundred thousand dol
lars when the war began and nothing at
its close.
Francis Christian. OF Muskegon,
Mich, was one hundred years old the
other day. His mother lived to be one
hundred and four, and he has cousin
who is now in his one hundreth year
The Russian Emperor, as he grows
older, becomes in appearance more and
more a typical Cossack; colossal IN ng-
ure. entirely bald fat-nosed and enor-
mously mustached and bearded.
There Is a queerly matched couple
in Atlanta. The husband weighs one
hundred and thirty pounds and the wits
three hundred pounds. When they wero
married the man weighed one hundred
and fifty pounds and the woman one
hundred and twenty.
james Mclaughlin, the jockey,
often gained in weight seven pounds IN
one day. II this addition was in excess
OF his riding weight. and he had to rae
the next day. he would have to work 1t
off the next morning by running from
seven TO fourteen miles in heavy cloth
ing.
SAYS Bishop Brewer, Of Montana:
"Our Montana men are honest, hard
working, independent fellows They
are not particularly religious, and they
DO not respect church Offices but they
treat bishop quite as well as they treat
a cowboy, provided the bishop is man
ly man."
of Oliver Johnson, the old-time
aboltionst who has just died, Henry
Ward Beecher wrote in 1884: II rank
Mr.. Johnson among the best men that
our time has produced, the men who
have enriched the world, and OF whom
the world was not worthy He belongs
to the band-almost gone-of those who
fought the battle of liberty and who
have lived to see the victory"
Miss Willard in recent lecture on
woman's dress makes the following
interesting statement, which is as pict-
uresaue as it is true: Catch Edison
and construct him inside wasp waist
coat, and be sure you'll get no more in
yentions; bind a hustle upon Bismarck,
and farewell to German unity; coerce
Robert Browning into corsets, and you'll
have no more epics; put Parnell into
petticoats, and home rule is a lost
cause"
John Murray tramp, who died at
( the Newark On. J.) city hospital the
other day from lockjaw, turned out to
be William Montague Rushbridge, OF
,, Montague hall, Surrey, Eng. His
mother is said to be Lady Murray.
Murray was thirty-seven years old. He
was known about Orange for several
wears. lie was always reticent about
his history, refusing to tell why he pre-
ferred tramps life in this country,
when he might have lived in luxury in
: England.
, 1t is related Of Mr. Gladstone that
when Prime Minister he did not like to
. be guarded by detectives from Scotland
Yard. So he would walk into his Off.
cial residence on Downing street and
Q hang hi ha, upon prominent peg III
+ The wal Tue detectives woald watch
Ibe hat. and. me.snwhile ae would have
donned another head-gear. slfppea oat
at tn back ontranee 'and go, oiea,
: away. This trick served It's purpose
often, but in the end one detective
I, went to the front and the other to the
! back of No. 10 Downing street, and Mr.
: Gladstone was driven to contrive som'
Trash Stpatepv