Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-08-18
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

Miss Clara Barton mas returnco W
Washington from South Carolina. where
she has been since spring with other
agents nf the Bed Cross society, reliev-
ing tho distress Of the sufferers from
the foods on the sea islands
Oliver Wendell Holmes is spending
| two hours day in writing the story OF
his brilliant life - brilliant with
achievement and mirth. DR.. Holmes
was born two years before Edgar Allan
Poe, though he has survived him by
nearly half century.
The recent reduction in price OF
aluminium has called renewed atten-
ton to the possibilities Of the use OF
aluminium bronze castings for pur-
poses in which the strength of forged
steel without it's liability to corrosion
are essential. Its price should now be
not much above that Of ordinary gun
bronze.
Every good cook is careful to dis
. pose at once of the water in when
meat Has been washed. Only very
r few hours are necessary to change it
| into foul-smelling liquid if the tenn
. perature is suitable. This change IS
, due to little plant called bacterium
, termo. A drop of this putrid material
under the microscope reveals many
$ thousands of them, acting under pecu'
S liar vibratile motion.
e Queen Victoria speaks ten Ian
Y guages fuently The queens grand
e daughter-in-law, the German empress
k is also clever as a linguist. She sur
e prised her guests at recent court en-
IT tertainment by talking Norwegian to
one of them who came from that coun'
$. try. She plays the violin very well,
IS and when she and her husband manage
n to get quiet evening together, they
Sc generally devote it to music.
e. 81 have read somewhere" said an
We early riser, that we don't eat hash as
o. much as we did. and I have no doubt
n, that is true, but we must still eat some,
for / hear occasionally, as | take my
IN morning stroll, issuing out OF base
as ment windows the familiar sound o.
on the chopping knife-a sound, ] vii
at add, not unpleasant to me, for while
90 hash may not be an extremely fashion
,at able dish, am free to say that goo'
nd hash like. IN. Y. Sun.
of -Dvorak's negro symphony, whicl
sc. is made up of negro melodies and whic
let he wrote while rusticating last sun
mer at the little Bohemian settlement
nd at Spillvlle, Ia, has been enthusiast
of tically received in London. The grcs
in composer says that in all that relate
to to melody and to temperament the n
She groes are natural musicians, but tn;
,ro- it will take many generations OF GU
ar. ture to develop their intellects to II
mad point of appreciating the higher ar
he larger forms Of music.
to Daniel Webster once sat for b
portrait to the late G. p. A. Healy al
Lv a the senator remark when he survey
day the completed picture became one
Ipe. the artists favorite anecdotes in aft
der wears. II think" said Webster, as
the looked at his counterfeit presentmei
self that is a face have often shaved
, he Healy found Andrew Jackson di
his greeable and unwilling subject a
use. he compensated himself by paint
Ives, Old Hickory with absolute fidelity
nature. not CLOSING single defe
,ing The portrait gives jackson an ug
ders savage and pallid face.
oto- Sometimes a man who wants
that stop street car snaps his fingers
,als. the driver or the gripman. 1t see
IS on as though the gripman would be
the asperated by that. but he doesn't
the pear to be. Some people lift ha
case high in the air and hoid III tnere'
. the some people wave an umbrella o
with cane; but the great majority OF peo
r. have discovered that for all practi
liable purposes in stopping car toothp
dry is as good as a fence rail- All thai
posi. necessary is to catch the drivers e
kent It isn't necessary to shove house
Tho the track in front of him.