Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-09-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Joseph Jefferson's genius industry
and prudence have enabled the "c.oi
70 acauirc a fortune, and for years ne
has for the most part confined his sea-
son an the stage to six weeks TINS
short season keeps him in touch WIN
his loved profession and is a source Oh
pleasure as well as pecuniary proht'
-Ex-Premicr lIonore MERCER oil
Ouebec has published a letter thanking
the French Canadians of New England
and the Americans who Joined win
them in extending sympathy and oS-
| pitalitv to him on his recent trip
through that section I'm the interest,"
Of the great cause, independence OF
Canada
-Postmaster-Genera Bissell is too
heavy to get about much. and when he
nlants himself in his chair behind the
| Great rlass.covered desk, on which Mr..
| John Wanamaker had a complete pos
tai mar of the United States framed,
he is almost anchored, sitting there
steadily and only half rising to give Il
fat. chubby hand to his callers.
Mrs. W. 7. Earle, of New York,
who has been spending some time at
Richfeld Springs, does not permit the
triflc of her being a great-grandmother
to interfere with her a~ntebreakfast
cantcr on her pet horse Dandy Mrs.
Earle's figure is as erect, her eye as
clear. her hand as steady, AS though
She were under forty instead of past
seventy years of age.
Mrs. Lewis Rice, of Frederick, Md,
has collected enough money to place "A
suitable monument oven the grave OF
Francis Scott Key, author of "The
Star Spangled Banner A flat marble
slab now marks the place where he
lies in Mount Olivet cemetery, Wash
ington, d. {. There is IA very hand
some monument to Key in Golden Gate
park, San Francisco.
-Zola's latest ambition is to become
Il member OF the French chamber OF
deputies. The novelist says that for
twenty years past hisminute researches
into every class and phase of society,
from high to low, have provided him
with a stock of knowledge about the
evils and mysteries of social life of such
a nature as tomake him an experienced
physician in the application of lcgis-
lativc remedies.
Rev. Russell II. Conwell SAYS he
never writes ont a sermon or a lecture,
and that he has delivered his lecture
Acres Of Diamonds" 1856 times, but
never without change, according to his
w mood or the character of the
audience he is addressing. He gives
all the proceeds of his lectures fer the
education of young men, and he is now
supporting ninety three in various col
lcges and universities. Forty-four are
studying for the ministry.
Some secondhand book stores,
though only a few, make "A speciality
of old diaries. Those ofthis year, il in
good condition, still fetch thirty OF
forty per cent. of their original price,
and if bound in detachable backs of
good leather they go even higher.
Diaries of other years fetch from five
to twenty-five cents. Those at the lat.
ter price are often richly bound.
Diaries of the year 1916 sell well this
year, because the dates of the tive
years from March / are identical.
Harriet l1eechcr Stowe has entered
upon her eightv-second year, and,
speaking of the new "Brunswick" edi.
ton of Uncle Toms Cabin" she saws.
AS ! took the little book in my hand |
seemed to hear the soft rush of the dis.
tant tide in the sunny bays of Maine,
and to scent the odors of the balsam.
spruce, pine and hemlock which fringe
those lovely shores. 1t was indeed a
happy thought. the naming of this new
little edition for the birthplace of the
original" Mrs. Stowe wrote the i'm
mortal book in 1850, when her husband
was professor in Bowdoin college.