Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-09-26
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.


The jewels and bric-a-brac of the
actress Leonide Leblanc have been sold
in Paris with unusual results. A pearl
necklace of 219 big pearts brought ESQ.,
| 900 francs
"A fireman at Myerstown, Pa, wore
celluloid collar to fire, when it ba-
came ignited from the great exposure
to the heat and burned his neck and
discolored his face.
A Russian physician brought libel
suit against widower who had pasted
on the tombstone of his lately deceased
wife the last prescription he had given
her, the day before her death.
Col Polk, the head of the farmers
alliance, is rising fve-and-thirty. In
appearance he is a profoundly intelli.
gent-looking man of middling height,
with iron-gray hair and long white
beard of Vandyke cut.
"A physician in New Haven washes
all the groenbacks he receives He
first uses soap, then rinsing the notes
Off in cold water, and he reports that
the treatment gives clean, crisp look
to even the most dilapidated bill.
"A fifteen-year-old negro boy in Tai
bot county, Ga, whose favorite sport
was butting heads with other boys, has
been sent to the lunatic asylum. 1t is
thought his insanity was caused by the
concussion of the brain received in his
contests.
The president and moving spirit OF
the American Society of Psychical Re-
search, which has for its object the
scientific Investigation of ghosts, is Mr..
b. 0. Fowler, editor of the Arena. AL
though a practical and hard-headed
young editor, he possesses a great lik-
ing for the uncanny.
1t is said that in districtin in Meade
county, Kan, there Is only one family.
The husband and wife constitute the
school board, and they employ their
only child, daughter, as teacher, who
OF course has no pupils. Recently they
raised her salary from thirty.fve to
forty dollars month.
"A hump on his back was the most
conspicuous part of beggar who for
years had collected aims on the steps of
St sulpice church, Paris. OF late
years the hump seemed to grow. The
other day, in delirium, he jumped from
a window and was killed This hump
contained S200 900 in bonds and coin.
The duke of Cambridge, since the
age of nineteen, has been in the queens
The following are the
rough estimates of the amount of money
he has received Grant of eta 900 for
years, s46S 900; army emol-
from 1887 TO 1861, e16, 900; colo
mel of Grenadier guards, 1861 to 1869,
f5,O 900; commander.in-chief, 1862 to
1889, el25 oOo rangership of parks,
Ell 900; total, e67l 900.
Thomas A. Edison is confirmed
vegetarian, eschewing flesh, fowl and
ish. He enjoys fruits of all kinds,
grains of every variety, and vegetables,
those that ripen in the sum
hine. He is profoundly careful about
lis diet, holding that it has a powerful
influence upon the mind and its action.
IS well as on the health and vigor of
he body. He has studied the matter
lnder the laws of science as we'll in the
ight of reason.
The present shah of Persia has been
me OF the most progressive monarchs
he country ever had. During his reign
'eheran has changed from a dreary old
own of one hundred thousand inhabit-
nts to city of thrice that population,
nd been heautitied with fine prone
AIDES, elegant residences and hand
ONE public buildings. He has intro
uced banks, gas, telegraphs and street
always and modernized the army.
nd he is the first ruler of Persia to
orm regular ministry on the Euro
can model and to nominate ambassa.
ores to foreign courts.