Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-07
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL


-Ex-Cnited States Senator Waitman
T. Wiley. now clerk of the county
court of Monongalia county, W. Va, is
hale and hearty, though he is in his
eighty-fourth year, and can be found
at any hour of the day at his desk,
In a Brooklyn police court a deaf
mute was charged with stealing a
rocket-book. When the prosecutor
had testified and the prisoner was
asked to defend he took the oath and
vote his denial thus: ~ did not take
the pocket-book; she didn't see me
tale it, for she wasn't there when |
took it"
Uncle John Holland, colored, who
died IN Kent county, Del, at the re.
putcd age of one hundred and eight,
was famed for sobriety in all things
save 4 riotous imagination. Two years
ago he professed to have visited Heaven
and to have recognized there a white
lady of his acquaintance. His descrip-
lions OF the celestial city were graphic
and a bit ludicrous, but they were
heard with open-mouthed wonder by
his brethren.
The youngest grandchild of Prince
bismarck, the little daughter of Count
and the former Countess
was baptized at Schoenhausen
castle a few days ago. She received
name of Anna Leopoldine Alice.
including the members of the family
ana DR.. Schweninger, who is now sci.
ION absent from any Bismarck festival,
Ill the members of the nobility from .
ne surrounding country were present, =
yrlnce Bismarck has no male grand.
MID, all the children of his sons and
laughter, Countess Rantzau. being :,
iris. i
bishop Lawrence spoke in Boston y
d The annual reunion of graduates OF y
Tie Lawrence grammar school, which b
vas named after his grandfather, :.
mos Lawrence, lie said that none OF II
he hearty welcomes offered him since al
is elevation to the episcopal Office n
ao given more qualification. The III
lshop recalled as one of the memories
his boyhood the fact that it was his IN
'arly task to squeeze enough lemons 81
make "a barrel or two of lemonade in
r the boys Of the Lawrence school. an
nom ms father always made il A
'ihl 10 entertain at his home in Brook. Rp
50t
Queen Victoria's conservative rond- raj
81 lor the things she is used to is en-
WI In the fact that the little ivory Coz
per-knife with which she cuts the
Ses OF her new books was in her nos.
when she was a little princess r
'e cabins of the royal yacht are still LET
Shtened with the same old-fashioned dar
eoud chlntz which her dead husband =
Gu The queen has a particular love inn
fresh air, and sits in rooms so cold ,un,
u no American woman could endure Inv
m "A fortnight ago she had her ~,
amer garden tent taken out of its $780,.
lter quarters, and sat in it in thc p"..
,den for two hours or more for SOW. "
| consecutive days, signing onicia, '1
uInents. II
charming wife of a CONGRESS-. so'
l. noted for his energetic labor in h,,.,
all OF his constituents and his CEN l ~,
efficiency and unfailing good.na. la,n
;, is quite a noted cook, When She wv
entertain at dinner, she is fond of 10 u>
'rls'hg her guests with a dainty On
OF her WI preparing. 81 believe. y loyeI
'diu, When some one complimnnto3 moth
on her accomplishment, that we rom
IKE what we cat. NV husband N'0
4 sensitive digestion, aud bad cook OH
'ame near making a fend of him derou
a maniac of me. | set myself to VA a.
'et TINS and | hatter myself have magis
seded. Improperly prepared food
one, and will transform NV "Nc
ana int a cynical pessimist in less cide,"
an hour really consider that !an efs,n,
popularity in his district and his
n to congress depend upon the CALL
J give him and the manner in ~
m II I e fA,-D N,. s mn ~