Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-08
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

improvement societies are being
formed in nearly every town in Georgia.
The aggregate wealth of all the
rich men of half dozen American
cities is not equal to the sum possessed
by New York's richest citizen.
-Signor Giordano Succis fasting rec
ord isas follows: Thirty days in NJ Ian,
thirty in Lisbon, thirty-fve in Brussels.
and forty in London. He now proposes
to treat New York to forty-five-day
fast.
Leopold IL, King Of the Belgians, is
tall, slim and remarkable handsome
man. He has broad forehead. delicate
features and fine, full beard that has
begun to turn gray. He is fifty-six
years old. g -, .,t-e
The heir apparent Of the Japanese
empire became of legal age eleven
years) on November 3, 1889 He was
appointed to some Honorary Office and
given sword that has been kept in the
Imperial family siEce rot 4 4y y
Two eminent clergyuen. haze. re-
Gently preached in a Hartford. lonn..
church, and their sermons sera,so nc r.
ly alike that people began 70 whisper
the awful word plagiarism. .Butit turned
out that they both used the Same boos
Of sermon skeletons Unless carefully
used, a sermon skeleton Is dangerous
weapon.
"A modest epitaph that may be read
on a tomb in cemetery at Madrid:
| 'Hic jacet Juan Pinto the Spanish
| 0rpheus When he arrived in Heaven
angels. Scarcely had He heard it than
the Almighty exclaimed: BE SILENT
Ill, and allow the illustrious tenor, Juan
Pinto to sing aloner"
The venerable Henry W. Paine, OF
Cambridge, Mass, who has practiced
law ever since 1874 still visits his Office
daily. 1t was he, the Boston Herald
says, who originated the famous re-
mark, ut was law until your honor
spoke" the same having been addressed
to the Chief Justice of Massachusetts,
who interrupted his argument by saying,
"Mr. Paine, you know that. is not law"
General Sheridan was troubled all
his life by an affection OF the chest
General Williams says that Sheridan
nearly died in the Yellowstone Park
while making the trip with President
Arthur His pulse was over 100
minute and alarmed the physician,
who was told by the General and his
brother Mike" that the normal condi-
ton of General Sheridan was always
over 100 - -
John Brown, son of John Brown, Of
Harper's Ferry fame, lives quietly at,
| Put-in-Bay, O., where he cultivates q
small vineyard and fruit farm. He is
an old man now, having been one Of
the prominent persons in the stirring
period in which his father figured. He
is much annoyed by tourists, who insists
upon hunting him up and d scussing the
exciting events around Harper's Ferry
| just prior to the war.
i don't like to see the face covered
with whiskers, especially when it is the
face of a minister Much of the power
of public speaker depends upon the
expression of his face. OF course one
may argue that the beard has hygienic
value, but the beard has no aesthetic or
elocutonary value. The smooth face,
too, represents permanence of person.
al appearance which the beard does not
Many people like to change their
boards, and a change of beard changes
them. To minister who changes his
beard | feel somewhat as did dog
whose master told him to guard his
clothes while he went in swimming;
when the master came out of the water
and wanted his clothes the dog did not
recogn ze his master and would not let
him have his clothes. To the deaf
the beard has special objection. Not
few in ever congregation hear with
their eyes. shall be glad of the dawn
Of the day when every minister has
smooth face.-Chicago Advance.