Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-01-04
PERSONAL AND IMPERSoNAL-

--Pcck's Bad Boy-that is, George
Peck, Jr., the son of Gov. Peck, of Wis
consin--has been appointed assistant
pension agent for the district which
includes Wisconsin, Minnesota AMI tho
Dakotas
Judge Richard Parker, before
whom John Brown and his accomplices
were tried, died at Winchester, Va,
November 10. lie was So years of age,
and served with credit in the United
States house of representatives in 1860
C. r. Tyler, London's new lord
mayor, was an errand boy in the great
paper making house of William Vena-
bles, whose one time partners suggest
cd to Dickens his famous Cheeryble
Brothers, and is now at the head of
that establishment. He is considera bic
OF CHEEKY BILE brother himself.
The car, while at Copenhagen is
said to have made no secret of his pro-
found dislike to the German language,
which he knows but persistently de-
clines to speak or listen to. The other
day, while attending meeting of Dam
ish firemen, he refused to answer one
of the officers who addressed him in
German until the query was repeated
in English.
AT the funeral of football hero at
Leicester, England, some time ago, ac'
cording to the local chronicler, ION the
coffin, which was borne to the cemetery
in an open hearse, was laid football,
much in the same way that military
or naval officers chapeau is placed up
on the casBet containing his body. On
either side of the hearse walked the
members of the club, bareheaded, in
blue Jerseys, white knicl1erbockcrs and
high-laccd football shoes"
Mrs. Rosa Veloso, native of Chilli,
died at San Jose, Cal, a few days ago
at the age of 100 years. She had four
great-grandchildren, one of whom is
Is years old. Two days before col
ored woman, Mrs. Dorcas Norris whose
age of 1O5 years was well authenticate
ed died at Portland, Ore. Two other
centenarians, Mary Page, 1O4, and
Harry Mordecai, 101, died in the
Raleigh, N. c., poorhouse within a day
of each other the first of this month.
An American acrobat in Vienna
lately won queer wager. lie bet
considerable sum with Vienna strong
man that he could not endure to have a
liter of water fall drop by drop from a
height of three feet upon his hand.
When three hundred drops had fallen
the athletes face became red and he
looked as if in pain. At the four hun
dred and twentieth drop he gave up,
saying it was impossible to bear the
pain any longer, The palm of his hand
was swollen and inflamed, and in one
place the skin had broken open. Only
a small portion of the liter of water had
gone to make up the four hundred and
tw enty drops ~~7-'
81 have occasion now and them"
said man of moderate means, 'to
have my overcoat repaired. When l
was younger | used to put off the re-
pairing of the overcoat until cold
weather had actually set in; then l
found that by very singular coinci-
dencc seventeen other men had done
the same thing, at the same shop, and
SO l had to wait. But now l get my
overcoat out along in the latter part of
August, and run it into the shop then,
when business is dull. Then the tailor
can give plenty of time to it, and l get
my overcoat when l want it. / think
that we learn wisdom as we grow
older. about overcoats, anyhow"